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  The announcement of NTRS in Usenet's sci.aeronautics newsgroup on June 6, 1994 .  Note the quaint requirement of " Forms " support (which was not yet available in all web browsers in 1994). Today marks the 30th anniversary of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) being advertised to the public on the Usenet newsgroup sci.aeronautics .  I've had many noteworthy accomplishments in my career, but I'm especially proud that NTRS continues in name and purpose today.  Naturally, the implementation and architecture have changed several times, but in my field there are not many opportunities to have a project that lasts 30 years (and counting).   I've talked about the evolution of the NTRS architecture and how it reflected contemporary thinking about DL design before, but I'll provide a summary here.  In 1993, I set up an anonymous FTP server for technical memorandums and technical papers published by Langley Research Center.  I called it the Langley Tec...

Richard Poynder 's recent blog post " Q&A with CNI’s Clifford Lynch: Time to re-think the institutional repository? " has generated a lot of discussion, including a second post from Richard to address the comments and the always insightful commentary from David Rosenthal (" Why Did Institutional Repositories Fail? ").  There surely have been enough articles about institutional repositories to fill an institutional repository, but of particular interest to me are discussions about the technical and aspirational goals of OAI-PMH . A year ago Herbert and I reflected on OAI-PMH and other projects (" Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts "), which I wish Richard would have referenced in his discussion (although Cliff does allude to this in his interview (MLN edit: Richard points out that I missed his quoting of that paper in his second blog post )), as well as the original SFC and UPS papers.  For his response to Richard, ...