MIT's Superarchive
Sally Atwood,
MIT News,
Nov 11, 2002
Though MIT's Steve Lerman presented in Milan today, he didn't say a word about this. Too bad. This article is a detailed account of MIT's DSpace, an online archive for scholarly material produced at the university. It's a good accounting of some of the issues, but I'm really getting peeved with MIT's claim to have invented all of this. "MIT’s attention to the needs of its faculty, the open architecture of DSpace, the federation design, and its decentralized nature comprise 'a genius stroke.'" Well, yes. But not MIT's. There is a world out there and in that world a lot of the stuff that MIT now claims is its "genius" has already been invented many times over.
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