Archive for July, 2008
Would iTunes make a good journal article repository?
I’ve just read a few blog and news posts (none from the repository-worlde) about a paper published in The American Journal of Roentgenology (I had to look it up too! “Radiology employing x-rays”). The paper is entitled ‘An Easy and Effective Approach to Manage Radiologic Portable Document Format (PDF) Files Using iTunes‘ and talks about how radiologists in Shanghai’s Renji [...]
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Google Analytics is not a statistics package!
As everyone knows I’m a big fan of using Google Analytics with repositories in order to see what is happening with your repository with respect to visitors – what they are looking at / which links they are following / where they are coming from / how many people are visiting the site etc.
However from [...]
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Microsoft SWORD announcements
It has been very encouraging to see two announcements within the last 24 hours from Microsoft regarding SWORD:
The first came in the form of an email from Lee Dirks to the American Scientist Open Access Forum. In the email Lee says:
Microsoft Research and arXiv.org have been working closely on the adoption/utilization of the SWORD protocol [...]
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About to load test DEF repositories
One of the core aims of the ROAD project is to load test DSpace, EPrints and Fedora repositories to see how they scale when it comes to using them as repositories to archive large amounts of data (in the form of experimental results and metadata). According to ROAR, the largest repositories (housing open access materials) based on [...]
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Personal tinyurls
I’ve just found out that the TinyURL service (www.tinyurl.com) now allows you to create your own custom links.
So rather than creating a tinyurl such as http://tinyurl.com/6kst4b you can have http://tinyurl.com/my-blog (well, you can’t anymore as its taken!).
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Test LDAP service
One of the first integration tasks undertaken on a new repository installation is to plug it in to the local authentication system. More often than not this is LDAP. It allows users to use their usual local username and password in the repository rather than having to remember another password. LDAP services can be provided [...]
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It’s raining docs – Hallelujah!
I came across a great little tool today: Precipitate (via the Google Mac Blog). It’s a bit of software from Google for Macs which allows the Mac OS X spotlight tool (a tool for indexing and searching files) to index and then open Google Docs. Called ‘Precipitate’ because like rain “it comes from the cloud” [...]
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