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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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 [...]

Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:23 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 4 Comments
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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 [...]

Posted on September 18, 2010 at 8:19 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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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, [...]

Posted on July 25, 2010 at 7:17 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 · 15 Comments
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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 · 2 Comments
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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 · 10 Comments
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