Thomas Krichel writes

Could you be interested in ArchEc data?

Christoph Semken writes

The description on the website is very brief.  What is the difference with RePEc?  Does it mainly add versioning?  This could be interesting since I would not have to keep track of the changes myself (to notify users when an article they bookmarked changed).

Well, the idea is to archive RePEc. There are really two aspects to that. One is to archive all RePEc metadata records and all versions that have existed of these records. That part is not done. All we have at this time is a series of dumps of the records at a particualar time. The other is to archive all full-text contents in the sense of the File-URL payloads in all RePEc archives, and all versions thereof, well, within reason. That part is partially done. Both parts are supposed to be merged, in the follwing sense. There will be a single file per RePEc handle. It will contain all versions of the metadata and all versions of the full text. The format will be the WARC, as developed by the Internet Archive. I have released an initial set of WARCs and a set of plind files. These are PayLoad INDex files, in json, one per series, where full-text can be found in the WARCS. If your institution could sponsor a server for ArchEc that would be welcome. Even if you could rsync a copy that would be great. I will send you a mail recently sent to ArchEc-run under separate cover. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel