{"id":18803,"date":"2017-03-19T05:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T04:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=18803"},"modified":"2017-03-19T05:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T04:43:16","slug":"open-access-classics-serials-catalogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/03\/19\/open-access-classics-serials-catalogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Classics Serials catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excellent, there’s going to be a dedicated public catalogue for Open Access Classics Serials<\/a>, building on the outstanding work done by AWOL. Although its planners note that…<\/p>\n

“A certain amount of iteration and even manual curation of data is likely to be necessary.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. A vision of ‘herding cats into a library, and then asking them to sit in neat rows’ springs instantly to mind. If it were me, I’d consider skipping past the years of fiddling with trying to make\/align\/cajole automated inputs which are ‘library science friendly’ from over 1,500 journals — and instead go straight to the crowd and their keyboards. Via outreach to Fiverr-like $5 gig-workers, especially to needy scholars in places like Bangladesh1<\/sup> and Africa, to do the few months of manual keyboard bashing required to make such a catalogue totally comprehensive. <\/p>\n

What would the cost of that be? Well, at $10 per manual input of data\/links on 50 articles, adding AWOL’s 50,000 articles into an OJS setup… that’s a piffling $10,000 and would have a usefully-searchable catalogue done in a few months. I’m assuming an OJS installation can scale to provide a unified mirror for the TOCs\/abstracts\/metadata of 1,500+ journals, but perhaps Persee’s WooCommerce template system might scale better (as well as being much more elegant to look at). Then perhaps add another $5,000 for volleys of curator-directed $10 gigs to ’round up the strays’, and to get second-opinion proofreading and error-correction.<\/p>\n

Of course, AWOL’s posts sometime list volumes alone rather than volumes + articles, so there would be a certain amount of additional build-out and extra cost beyond the initial scooping of AWOL into catalogue form. But that might not cost a great deal extra on top of the initial $15k. Even with management and web-hosting costs the v1.0 version of the catalogue could probably all be done very comprehensively for less than $30,000. A small Foundation, a Kickstarter, or even a private consortium of 60 classics professors (x $500 each) should be able to easily raise that.<\/p>\n

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1. A skilled Bangladeshi purchasing and inventory clerk, a job which seems an apt comparison for data entry, currently earns an average of around $250 U.S. per month. A Bangladeshi teacher earns about $180 per month. Assuming a carefully-done entry of data and links on 50 articles (paying $10) per day, over 28 days such work would pay a needy scholar a good local monthly wage of $280.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excellent, there’s going to be a dedicated public catalogue for Open Access Classics Serials, building on the outstanding work done …<\/p>\n

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