Archive for June, 2008
CallManager WebDialer form
Yesterday afternoon I was slightly bored, and was looking for small experiment to do in order to take my mind off of the reports I was in the middle of writing. The experiment ended up taking the form of messing around with the new CISCO 7941 IP phone that landed on my desk a few [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: voip
Preserving reactions to Lord Of The Rings
‘Preserving reactions to Lord Of The Rings’ is a funny blog posting title, but I’ll explain…
Back in 2003 to 2004, our department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies undertook the biggest audience response survey to a film ever. They collected just short of 25,000 responses to the films from speakers of 14 different languages. The [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: dspace, open data, preservation, repositories
RSP Summer School 2008 – Repository publicity session
I’m traveling back from the RSP Summer School 2008 which has just finished. It was held up on the Wirral at Thornton Manor. The manor house, formally owned by Lord Leverhulme was a fantastic venue, and the food was top notch! Whilst there I gave an impromptu SWORD masterclass, and chaired the session on ‘Advocacy’.
The [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: repositories, rsp, rspsummerschool2008
JISC repository aggregator site
It has been announced that JISC have commissioned the creation of a new repository aggregator site:
JISC Repository Aggregator Website
JISC funds a wide variety of development projects on behalf of its funding bodies. These projects include consultancies and supporting studies where the main deliverable is a report and projects where the deliverables include products and services [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: jisc, jisc-crig, repositories
Pro mashups book with a CC license
I’ve just followed a link to a blog from someones email footer, and found a book published this year: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Apress, 2008). The blog is by the author of the book Raymond Yee.
I was attracted to the blog and the book for two reasons:
I love mashups, and when I find the [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: mashups, open access, repositories, web
A DRY CRIG Day
I’ve just returned from the latest CRIG (Common Repository Interfaces Group) meeting at Bath University. In typical CRIG fashion the event was held in a bar, where the food and drink flowed freely. The CRIG team ran an excellent event are are now quite used to running useful, informative and thought proving events.
This particular CRIG [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: depositplait, jisc-crig, repositories, sword
Tracking repository searches from the inside
One of the many great features of Google Analytics is that it can shown the search terms that visitors to your site have used in search engines. This is a great tool for finding out what brings users to your repository.
Seven months ago Google launched a new feature in Google Analytics that also allows you [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: analytics, dspace, eprints, repositories
Lessons from teaching DSpace
Yesterday I spent the day with a colleague delivering a training day aimed at new or potential DSpace administrators as part of my role working with the Repositories Support Project (known as the RSP).
We had a fun, interesting and busy day talking about DSpace, but a few hiccups along the way.
With each event we run, [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: dspace, rsp, servers, training
