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Life used to be so simple / unconfigurable

I had a spare hour this afternoon, so I thought I’d take a quick look at how dspace.cfg has changed over time. Anyone who has had the pleasure of looking after a DSpace server will know about dspace.cfg. It is the main configuration file for DSpace where many of the configurable options reside. These vary [...]

Recent writing

This blog has been pretty quiet over the past few months.  There are a few reasons for that! First, I’ve been working in my spare time as the Community Manager for the new JISC-funded ‘SWORD v2‘ project.  The role is partially project-manager (in terms of paperwork, project plans, etc), but mostly community management (managing email [...]

Tweeting tides updated

Almost a year ago I implemented a system that took tidal data which was openly published by Land Information New Zealand for some ports around the country and published them as real-time status updates on Twitter.  Each time there is a high or low tide, a tweet is sent that says what the time is, [...]

The SWORD course videos now online

I recently blogged about ‘The SWORD Course’, as the slides had been put onto slideshare.  Now, thanks to UKOLN’s Adrian Stevenson, the videos are now available too: An Introduction to SWORD: Gives an overview of SWORD, the rationale behind its creation, and details of the first three funded SWORD projects SWORD Use Cases: Provides an [...]

Java, RTF, and unicode characters

I don’t often post code snippets on my blog, however I wasn’t able to find any advice recently concerning how to put Unicode / UTF-8 characters into an RTF (Rich Text Format) document that was being created in Java. Here’s the problem: I have some data that I am manipulating Java, and the data contains [...]

The SWORD course slides now online

As part of the JISC-funded SWORD 3 project, I created ‘The SWORD Course’ and presented it during a two hour workshop at the recent Open Repositories 2010 conference in Madrid. The aim of the course was to empower repository managers and repository developers who knew what SWORD was, but who are not currently using it, [...]

Deposit to multiple repositories

One of the classic use cases for SWORD is deposit to multiple repositories at once. This could be used if a researcher has to deposit copies of their work to both an institutional repository and a funder’s repository, and also perhaps a subject-based repository. (In ‘real life’ this use case is not so far in [...]

SWORD workshop at OR10

As a member of the JISC funded SWORD project I’ll be giving a 2 hour workshop about SWORD at the Open Repositories 2010 conference (Friday July 9th, 2:!5-4:30 pm). The intention of the workshop is to provide a practical hands-on introduction to SWORD. An overview of the proposed programme has been posted on the OR10 [...]

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