A repository for pi(es)
As you may have read recently, Fabrice Bellard has announced the computation of π to almost 2.7 trillion decimal places using a faster algorithm that allows desktop technology to be used, rather than...
View ArticleAIDA and repositories
The AIDA project (Assessing Institutional Digital Assets) has completed its official, funded phase, but it’s gratifying to see interest emerging in the toolkit. We possibly could have done more at...
View ArticleOpen Repositories 2010 in Madrid
Rory and I have spent this week melting in the summer heat of Madrid at Open Repositories 2010. This is the third OR event I’ve attended (see my reports on OR09 and OR08) and the first that Rory has...
View ArticleDoing It Differently In Sheffield Cathedral!
It was great to take part in last week’s Repositories Support Project event at Sheffield Cathedral. The theme of the day, organised by Jackie Wickham and the RSP team, was “Doing It Differently” and...
View ArticleSynergies abound
Some days it all seems worthwhile, and last Friday was such a day. I spent most of it at SOAS listening to accounts of the many digitisation projects of the Centre for Digital Africa, Asia and the...
View ArticleSHERPA-LEAP: Handy Hints: MIME-Types
From the SHERPA-LEAP blog. Some repositories have reported issues with Microsoft “DOCX” files, which IE8 in particular may treat as a ZIP file. This is a potential problem with all the current slew of...
View ArticleStatistically relevant
From the SHERPA-LEAP blog. Over the last year or so we’ve installed and configured (in some cases reconfigured) the IRStats package for several of the LEAP repositories, including those hosted by ULCC....
View ArticleOpen Repositories 2011 (Part 2): The Developer Challenge
Excitement at the OR11 Developer Challenge Show-and-Tell (Photo by @sparrowbarley) An event that asked developers to demonstrate the Future of Repositories can only be considered a great success when...
View ArticleOpen Repositories 2011 (Part 3): Changing Platforms
To OR11 I took a presentation, jointly with Imma Subirats, from UN FAO in Rome, which we called Changing Platforms. The aim of the presentation was to discuss the subject of migrating repositories...
View ArticleOpen Repositories 2011 (Part 1)
Rory and I had a fun, productive and informative time at Open Repositories 2011 in Austin: everyone involved agreed that this year’s OR conference at the University of Texas was a great success. Chris...
View ArticleDSpace User Group 2007
The DSpace Community held its User Group conference in Rome this year that was every bit as interesting and entertaining as last year’s DSUG in Bergen. The conference was held at the UN Food and...
View ArticlePRIMO pilot launch
PRIMO (Performance as Research in Music Online) was launched at Senate House last Friday (26th October) to an invited group of music researchers. Katharine Ellis gave an excellent explanation of the...
View ArticleLaunch of Linnean Online
Last night the Linnean Society launched the new image repository that we have developed for it using Eprints. The address of the system is http://www.linnean-online.org/. It contains over 14,000...
View ArticleLMN Repositories event
On Tuesday Mick, Tim and I attended London Metropolitan Network’s half-day seminar Digital Repositories: What are our expectations? Maria from LMN had put together an excellent programme covering key...
View ArticleEPrints Web 2.0 Pow-wow
Following discussions on EP-tech and at last week’s JISC Repositories Programme meeting in Bristol, ULCC and Southampton University have organised an informal seminar in London on Thursday December...
View ArticleSNEEP: Tags plugin
As the SNEEP project continues to take form I have begun work on the tagging component. I will avoid the various arguments about the best way to scope tags (repo based vs third party). The nature of...
View ArticleSNEEP: Comments plugin update
An alpha download for SNEEP.comment is available on the SNEEP test Eprints repository: http://sneep.ulcc.ac.uk/eprints/2/ This gives an idea of how the comments will work in conjunction with an EPrint...
View ArticleEprints Web 2.0 Pow-wow followup
Thursday’s Eprints Web 2.0 Pow-wow in London was a great opportunity to discuss the issues with the Southampton team and others working at the bleeding-edge of the Eprints coal-face. In the morning,...
View ArticleSNEEP: Project update
Here’s a brief update on the SNEEP project, while my colleagues are busy with preparations for the new NDAD service and next week’s DPTP course in Edinburgh (which I’m sure they’ll post something about...
View ArticleOpen Repositories 2008 in Southampton
Enjoyed the last couple of days at OR08 in Southampton, catching up with the OR crowd and developments, as well as presenting on our work with Eprints for Linnean Online and SNEEP. The conference was...
View ArticleSNEEP: Beta release of Comments plugin for Eprints
A Beta release of the SNEEP Comments plugin for Eprints is now available in our demo repository: we invite any interested Eprints developers to download and test it. If you don’t have your own Eprints...
View ArticleOAI-PMH: decline or fall?
A recent post on the GoogleWebMasterCentral blog alerts us to Google’s withdrawal of support for OAI-PMH for Google Sitemaps. The resources required to support it were, says Google, disproportionate to...
View ArticleSNEEPing with CETIS in Bolton
If it’s Tuesday I must be in Bolton, at the JISC CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories Special Interest Group meeting, to present SNEEPish things to a much smaller and less daunting audience than in...
View ArticleWon’t you please, please SNEEP me?
If it’s not live, it’s not blogging! Here I am only minutes ago on the SNEEP stand at the JISC Innovation Forum 2008 at Keele University demoing the ajaxy fun that can be had commenting and tagging...
View ArticlePRIMO: New version taking shape
The PRIMO Steering Committee met last week to discuss next steps towards the launch of the final version. There will be quite a few changes from the current beta version. Many of these are the result...
View ArticleFish and Correspondence on Linnean-Online
Since November 2007 the linnean-online collection has allowed the public access to digitised images of plant (and since this summer insect) specimens held by the Linnean Society of London. This week...
View ArticleJISC Eprints Training @ ULCC
We are pleased to be hosting an Eprints Training Day, organised by the JISC Repositories Support Project (RSP). The event will be on Thursday 11th December 2008 here at our building in Guilford Street....
View ArticleLincoln up with the SNEEP community
The previous post may not have shown up on Andy McGregor’s RSS radar, but this one should! A most agreeable surprise to learn from Joss at Lincoln, in his comment on my previous post, that Lincoln’s...
View ArticleCLASM: Mashing up Moodle and repositories
We were pleased to learn today that the JISC has agreed to fund our proposal to the Rapid Innovations strand of the recent call, for a project called CLASM: Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD...
View ArticleInternational Repositories Infrastructure Workshop: public wiki now open
About a month ago (March 15-17) I attended an invitation-only event entitled “An International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop” in Amsterdam. Others have already blogged more contemporaneously...
View Articlerpmeet – the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting
Some of us at ULCC, and over 100 other people from around the UK, spent a couple of days this week at the Aston Business School reviewing the outcomes of JISC’s repositories and preservation programme...
View ArticleOpen Repositories 2009
Less than three weeks have passed since I found myself at Open Repositories 2009 (#OR09) in Atlanta, and it already seems a long time ago. For the record, Georgia Tech put on an excellent show,...
View ArticleSNEEP 0.3.2 (now with automagic installer) + PICT (SNEEP evolves!)
SNEEP 0.3.2 The JISC funded SNEEP project (Social Networking Extensions for EPrints) – part of the original JISC rapid innovation programme – aimed to provide a set of social networking tools for...
View ArticleOpen Access and Repositories in the Arts
On Tuesday I spent an interesting day at the British Academy discussing Open Access and Repositories in the Arts. The event was organised by the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and ably hosted by...
View ArticleJISC “Deposit Show & Tell” Event
Since it was at ULU, two doors down from our new home in Senate House, we had no excuses not to attend the JISC “Deposit Show & Tell” Event for applications and projects dedicated to making life...
View ArticleLaunch of Fürer-Haimendorf Photographic Collection at SOAS
I spent some of Friday at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for the launch of the Fürer-Haimendorf Photographic Archive, a JISC-sponsored digitisation project that makes available the...
View ArticleOur new EPrints repository (is not just for Christmas)
As regular readers will know, we have been working with repositories for quite a few years now. In 2005 we began working with the School of Advanced Study on their requirements for an Institutional...
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