[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

[Andrew A. Adams]

>     "The [UK] government has drafted in the Wikipedia founder Jimmy
>     Wales to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain
>     available online to anyone who wants to read or use it."
 
I was hoping that the new government might be less star-struck than the 
previous one. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose, it would seem. We really 
don't need Jimmy Wales advising on this. The team behind eprints has been 
(with minimal funding) developing the technology needed for many years and 
there are many academics in the UK much better versed in the intricacies of 
UK academic work and life than Mr Wales. Sigh. I foresee another lost couple 
of years wasted on this instead of getting to grips with the known problem 
and the known solution (including providing better funding for eprints 
development to the team that created it and still does the software 
engineering for it).


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Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/