Archive for February, 2010

On DSpace development

Over the past 9 months I’ve had the privilege to hold the position of ‘DSpace Release Co-coordinator’. This has meant that I’ve been able to not only work with a group of dedicated and talented repository developers and to act as liaison with the user community, but to also watch the development process happen from [...]

Posted on February 12, 2010 at 11:54 am by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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DSpace 1.6 – What will be in it for me?

Soon after the release of DSpace 1.5.2 in April 2009 I wrote a blog article ‘DSpace 1.5.2: What’s in it for me?’. The final release of DSpace 1.6 is due shortly, and as the release co-ordinator I thought it might be good to write a similar blog post outlining the key changes and new features [...]

Posted on February 10, 2010 at 11:07 am by Stuart · Permalink · 8 Comments
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EasyDeposit – SWORD deposit tool creator

The development of the SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol has enabled repositories to start accepting deposits from remote systems and interfaces. If you’re unsure of the basics of SWORD, read one of the following:

SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit Ariadne, 2008
If SWORD is the answer, what is the question? Program, 2009

However, to date [...]

Posted on February 3, 2010 at 7:14 am by Stuart · Permalink · 3 Comments
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