RePEc summit in Baldwinsville, NY 2002-05-02 / 2002-05-03

Present: Barrueco Cruz, Baum, Krichel, Zimmermann, Goffe (host)
Also participating: John Kane, Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (phone link), 
Ivan Kurmanov (half duplex)

Thursday afternoon:

1. discussion on journal indexing. It is proposed to write a
   similar document to that prepared for the scholarly societies 

2. RePEc user services, general discussion (CZ,JB,TK)

3. NEP: there has been an increasing amount of old papers available
in NEP. Another problem is the output is not jazzy. JMBC says that we
asked the editors for years to say give us a format, and we do that.
It would be nice if we could produce the title of seires and archive
in the reports. The discussion on logging of NEP access has again come
up. It would be good if we can get our hands on to logs.
We agree to change the URLs to the cgi script
to run an arcano.openlib.org (JMBC will implement). CZ, having
access to its own logs, sees the peaks that come through NEP
dissimenation. NEP should be doing be more selective in recruiting
volunteers, rather than picking the first person to come to do the
job. An advisory board of big names for NEP should be formed. We can
start by looking at the list of big names within the NEP lists.

Friday morning:

1. HoPEc: to make some noise, we could prepare a current awareness
service for the HoPEc. When we get new data for the big journals, we
would like to check if the author is registered, if not, send them an
email to invite them to register.

Another problem with HoPEc, is that when you register, it does a
search on the exact name. That is the search of the name and
initial. The first search must be much broader, and it should rank by
priorty. First priority would be match on family name plus given
names, second family name and initials, third family name only, fourth
spelling variants of the family name, fith inverted given name and
surname.  A similar search can be performed by HoPEc now, but it is
only done at a second stage.


2. Discussion on backup and documentation

CZ calls for better documentation of the RePEc effort. We need to have
better, basic documentation on how things are run. Thomas Krichel and
Christian Zimmermann will be keeping a list of passwords. All other
documentation will be available on a web site. Kit Baum will be
managing a web site. All key volunteers will be contributing web pages
for this web site. Kit will update the competence file and rally the
troops to provide and contribute a spell-checker.

We need to do some more explicit recruiting. Page on RePEc.org that
describes, and related to this we need other volunteers to do specific
tasks. One of these tasks could be quality control, another
propoganda, series integration, checking that we can mirror
archives. We need somebody in charge with recruiting volunteers.

3. Scholarly societies, e-scholarship consortia, publishers and RePEc
  (SS draft by KB; general discussion of other links)


Thursday night:

  official summit meeting dinner, with fromage (TK), tinto (JB)


Friday morning:

  Funding and incorporation issues (BG,TK)

  Syracuse protocol for centralization of series registration (draft by TK
  and JB)

  NEP: development strategy

Friday afternoon:

  NEP development, (with line to BBL)

Berlin requirements for extension of HoPEc (draft by IK and TK)

Friday evening:

RePEc mission statement (draft by SK and TK)

  Saturday morning:

implementing Syracuse protocol (JK,JB,TK,CZ,KB)

  Living reviews, najecon