Tag Archives: Geoffrey Bilder

CrossRef Creating Impressive Tools

By Gregg | Published: November 13, 2009
Geoff Bilder, CrossRef‘s Director of Strategic Initiatives, and others discussed Trust during their CrossRef Annual Meeting presentations earlier this week and I’ll discuss more on this topic next week.  What I was most impressed with in Bilder’s talk was the list of new projects, such as TOI DOI (a DOI shortener). I have often thought [...]
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Institutional Repositories: Roach Motels or Silos – Maybe Neither

By Gregg | Published: August 19, 2009
Dorothea Salo is the Digital Repository Librarian for the University of Wisconsin. She claims that, “[The institutional repository] is like a roach motel. Data goes in, but it doesn’t come out.” This description is much more derogatory than Geoffrey Bilder’s description of the Institutional Repositories (IR) as a silo. So what exactly is the problem [...]
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Is it really a Brave NOW World?

By Gregg | Published: June 3, 2009
“Brave NOW World” was the theme at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting in Baltimore last week where several ideas were presented for new publishing models and technologies. Geoffrey Bilder (CrossRef) returned this year proselytizing the same model he presented at last year’s meeting. In his usual dry, in-your-face style, he revisited his [...]
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