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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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