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DSpace 1.6 released!

As you will have hopefully read in the publicity that has gone out – DSpace 1.6 is finally released! It has been 9 or 10 months in the making, has involved and benefited from a lot of input from dozens of developers, users, and testers, and contains some fantastic new features. It has been a [...]

Posted on March 5, 2010 at 2:55 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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EasyDeposit – DOI integration with the CrossRef API

A few weeks ago I wrote about the EasyDeposit system we’ve created at The University of Auckland Library. In a nutshell, it allows you to easily create custom web-based SWORD deposit interfaces to enable the deposit of items into your repository. We’ve used it locally to create custom deposit interfaces for PhD theses, Masters theses, [...]

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 3:38 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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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Displaying citation counts in DSpace

In the repository world we’ve known for a while now that unless the repository provides value to a researcher, they won’t use it. Nothing pleases a researcher more than to see nice big citation counts for their papers. Wouldn’t it be nice if DSpace repositories could display the citation count for archived papers?

I received an [...]

Posted on October 30, 2009 at 3:44 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 4 Comments
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If SWORD is the answer, what is the question?

I’ve just had a new collaborative paper published: ‘If SWORD is the answer, what is the question?’ (DOI: 10.1108/00330330910998057). It covers the most recent iteration of the SWORD repository deposit standard, looks briefly at some issues around the present lack of adoption of SWORD, and most usefully presents seven use cases of SWORD written by [...]

Posted on October 13, 2009 at 9:40 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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SWORD PHP Library version 0.9 released + moved to github

I have just released version 0.9 of the SWORD PHP library. It has a few fixes and changes, the most noteworthy being:

Changed swordappservicedocument to build the servcedocument from the xml response rather than having the swordappclient do the work. This allows the service document to be parsed at a later time.
Changed the swordappclient deposit method [...]

Posted on October 6, 2009 at 9:49 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Library Mashups book – Chapter 17 now Open Access

A new book ‘Library Mashups – Exploring new ways to delivery library data‘ has now been published. The book, edited by Nicole Engard, has a great list of 25 authors from all across the globe, including well known names in the library-tech world such as Tim Spalding, Ross Singer, Bess Sadler and Bonaria Biancu. The [...]

Posted on October 5, 2009 at 1:41 pm by Stuart · Permalink · One Comment
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Using GMail with DSpace

From time to time a DSpace repository will send emails. It does this when new users are added, when new items are added, when workflow tasks need to be completed, when exports have completed etc etc. For DSpace production servers this is normally trivial to set up; enter the name of your email server in [...]

Posted on September 5, 2009 at 10:22 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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