Archive for May, 2009

Surfacing Google Analytics stats in DSpace

In the recent survey asking the DSpace community for their top 3 feature requests for DSpace 1.6, the number one most requested feature was statistics. As you’ll know from previous posts, I’m a big fan of Google Analytics.
For the uninitiated, you insert a small bit of JavaScript in your web pages, and Google provide a [...]

Posted on May 29, 2009 at 4:03 am by Stuart · Permalink · 16 Comments
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Easy pseudo-video streaming for DSpace repositories

A few days ago someone posted an enquiry to the dspace-general email list asking how to embed a video player in DSpace web pages. This was followed up by a lot of replies along the lines of “it would be great if DSpace could do that!”.
I wrote a quick reply saying how I thought it [...]

Posted on May 27, 2009 at 8:06 am by Stuart · Permalink · 25 Comments
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DSpace 1.6 survey results

Well, the results of the recent DSpace 1.6 survey in which we asked the DSpace community to list the top three features they would like to see in version 1.6 have now been published. The results will probably come as no surprise, but here are the top three features:

Better statistics
An embargo facility
Batch metadata editing

We have [...]

Posted on May 5, 2009 at 8:58 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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