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Back in the UK

This is just a quick blog post to say that I am now back in the UK, following almost three wonderful years in Auckland, New Zealand at The University of Auckland. Having worked in England and Wales, this time I’ll be in Scotland, as the Head of Digital Library Services at the University of Edinburgh. [...]

Posted on February 5, 2012 at 10:44 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Building a ‘blogliography’

I shall shortly be moving on to pastures new from my current role at The University of Auckland Library. Before I depart, I wanted to document a few of the projects that I have worked on during my (almost) three years in Auckland, the first of which is contained in this post: a project to [...]

Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:54 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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The collection is dead! Long live the collection!

“The collection is dead! Long live the collection!”  That summarises my current thoughts and feelings about the collection hierarchy structure in DSpace. When first installed, DSpace shows its need for a community and collection hierarchy, because without at least one community, containing at least one collection, it is impossible to even submit an item.  Therefore, [...]

Posted on August 26, 2011 at 8:34 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 6 Comments
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Android SWORD deposit mobile app

As part of the Open Repositories 2011 Developers Challenge, our team submitted a few different prototypes that formed our vision of ‘The Future of Repositories’.  Our whole entry centered around the theme of ‘Raas’, or ‘Repository as a Service’.  The notion of RaaS included the ability for the Repository become a commodity which could be [...]

Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:49 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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SWORD PHP Library – version 1.0 finally released!

After over 2.5 years of development and refinement, I have finally released version 1.0 of the SWORD PHP library! The library has been relatively stable for quite some time now, and is firmly embedded in tools such as EasyDeposit and OJS. The other reason that I wanted to get it released (after many earlier 0.x [...]

Posted on April 21, 2011 at 8:43 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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EasyDeposit now supports Shibboleth

Just a quick note to say that the latest release of EasyDeposit now supports Shibboleth authentication. Or to be precise, it supports any form of authentication where the user’s details are passed via HTTP headers / environment variables. This includes other SSO (Single Sign-On) systems such as CoSign. To use, select the ‘ssologin’ step as [...]

Posted on March 21, 2011 at 7:45 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Display a stack trace in the android debugger

I’ve found that when developing an application for android, it is not obvious how to display a stack trace in the debugger in order to assist with finding the cause of a problem. If you don’t catch the exception, the stack trace will display OK. However often you want to catch the exception, but when [...]

Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:47 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Scrolling Text with an Arduino and Nokia 5110 screen

A while ago I purchased a nice little Nokia 5110 screen from MindKits.co.nz (or Sparkfun). It comes complete with a little PCB and a built-in PCD8544 controller.  It took  me a while looking at some different demos on the web to get it working – but once you’ve got it worked out, it is very [...]

Posted on February 12, 2011 at 2:34 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 11 Comments
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