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[EP-tech] Re: Institutional level: several repositories vs. one

I understand what you are trying to do.... and, in theory, it's a good idea.
If the departmental eprints were standard (unmodified) systems, then each one can export records in the EPrint-XML format, and that will be the same for all repositories.... and thus compatible with the main Institution-level one.
Where things start to fall down is when repositories become modified.... and I don't mean in the templates and the way the web pages are displayed - I mean in the contents stored for each record:
If one department classifies articles by research group, and another by subject classification, then you can't merge them. 



On 03/04/15 14:55, Bjoern Hassler wrote:

Hi all,

I've got a newbie question, apologies if it's obvious.

Is anybody in this situation: Several eprints instances within an
institutiton (e.g. at departmental level), with an overall institutional
level repository (populated entirely through OAI Harvester or otherwise)?

Is this essentially supported out of the box by installing an
institution-level eprints instance, and letting it harvest the
departmental level instances?

 From a users perspective, is the functionality is the same (i.e.
equally smooth, same look and feel, etc)? I.e. is there a difference
between "native" records (say departmental level) and "harvested"
records (institutional level), from the users perspective? By "user" I
mean the person browsing the repository ("anonymously") on the web -
obviously there's a difference from the contributors perspective.

Does it make sense for the institutional repository to harvest
departmental repositories? Or would it be preferable to have a single
institutional repository and generate listings for departments from it
(which should be viewable within the sub-domain owned by the
department)? If the latter is preferable, what would be the simplest way
of doing that? (Set up departmental repository, and let it harvest the
institutional one? Or are there other e.g. API-based options?)



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