The
team
Implicitly, the RePEc team is huge, as it encompasses all the volunteers
of RePEc, including all archive maintainers as well as other helpful people. Here, we wish to give some
background information about the people most involved in this undertaking.
JMBC is librarian at the University of Valencia in Spain. He has been
involved very early in WoPEc (now defunct) and
has written a large chunk of the software used for the first versions of IDEAS as well. He also
built some of the initial critical mass in online papers by simply surfing
the net and adding material to RePEc. He is now mostly involved in CitEc, which provides citation analysis of the works listed in RePEc.
Kit is Associate Professor of Economics at Boston College. He has
been
instrumental in coding scripts that produce RePEc materials from
web-based
working paper and journal article listings for a number of RePEc
series,
including some of the major commercial publishers that participate in
RePEc. Kit proposed the
inclusion
of software components in RePEc, and manages the largest archive of
software components (to which he often contributes Stata components
for time series econometrics). He also does publicity for RePEc, is
the proprietor of the repec.org domain, and he responds to our hotline.
RePEc blog post about Kit Baum
Christian is teaching at the Université du Québec en Ouataouais and is involved in NEP coordination.
Sune is Professor of Statistics at Orebrö University on Sweden. He runs the Swedish Working Paper Archive, SWoPEc, one of the founding members of
RePEc. He is also in charge of the scripts used for updating the database
contents of most RePEc participants. He is in charge of LogEc, which houses lots of statistics
about RePEc, and of EconPapers. He
finally maintains a set of web-based tools that help archive maintainers
with the accuracy of the data they contribute.
RePEc blog post about Sune Karlsson.
Thomas is the one who started it all, before most of us even knew about
the web. While Lecturer of Economics at the University of Surrey in 1993,
he set
up NetEc, the
precursor to RePEc. He is now teaching in
the library school of Long Island
University. He coordinates many
activities and maintains the protocols we use. He is also our liaison to
related initiatives in other disciplines. He currently also maintains the software for NEP and the RePEc Author Service, in addition to being the system administrator to several machines.
RePEc Blog post on Thomas Krichel
Victor Lyapounov
Vic and Sergei are with the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch),
where they maintain a Russian mirror of RePEc called Socionet.
Marco is researcher at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy). He directs NEP, in particular recruits and selects its editors.
Volker is Librarian and Ekkehard is Professor at the University of Munich, Germany. They co-manage the Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) that allows authors without access to an institutional RePEc archive to upload their works.
Christian is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut.
He is in charge of the IDEAS and
EDIRC
sites, monitors author registration and does some P.R. He is also in charge of the RePEc Input Service and of the monthly mailings to archive and series maintainers, editors and authors.
Alumni
The following participated in critical aspects of the development of RePEc and have since moved to other projects.
Bernardo was closely involved with the academic aspects of NEP (our
annoucement
service) almost since its inception until 2007.
Markus started collaborating while working on his Master's at the
University of Mannheim, Germany. He started with
the RePEc author registration.
Ivan graduated in Economics at Belarussian State University and has worked over ten years as software developer for RePEc. Ivan has
programmed some of the "invisible" scripts used by RePEc that help us
everyday in our tasks. He was also the main programmer for the
RePEc author registration.
RePEc Blog post on Ivan Kurmanov
Féthy Mili
Féthy is documentalist at the departments of
Economics and of Industrial Relations of the University of Montreal. He
started around 1988 to catalog the holdings of his working paper library
on the
Internet. This catalogue gave NetEc much of its critical mass. Most
handles starting with archive
code fth are from him.
Bob is Professor of Economics at Washington University, St.
Louis. He started the popular but now defunct Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA), whose listings were also
included in NetEc, and then RePEc, very early on. Bob has been critical in providing the project with advice and lots of hardware.
Roman Shapiro
Roman is a software developer in Novosibirsk, Russia. Roman was responsible for a lot of the coding that helps editors create NEP reports.