--- abstract: The launching of an open archive has to face many obstacles among which technological and financial issues are not the most serious. The group shared experiences and analysed the main obstacles and made some proposals altloc: - http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000949/ - http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&categ=a02333&id=a02333s9t10/text chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 17-19 October 2002 conference: 'Second Geneva workshop on the Open Archives Initiative : Gaining Independence with online research repositories' confloc: CERN/Geneva contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Bosc given: H. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2002 date_type: published datestamp: 2005-06-21 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/44/16 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4416 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/4416/1/CERNanglais.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Open archives, launching' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:06 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:59:41 subjects: - archives succeeds: 4415 suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Launching a digital archive [texte disponible en englais et en français]' type: confpaper userid: 5684 volume: ~