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
However, to date [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Direct from MS Word to DSpace via SWORD
As a member of the SWORD project, it has been a great seeing Microsoft’s External Research group integrate SWORD into Word 2007, their Zentity repository, and their online journal hosting system. There is a good overview of this work in a presentation given by Pablo Fernicola at the Open Repositories 2009 conference entitled ‘Connecting Authors and Repositories [...]
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How does the Facebook SWORD client actually work?
I’ve been asked a few questions recently about how SWORD clients work, and in particular how the SWORD Facebook client works. The Facebook client is one of the most complete demonstration clients that there is, and as such ‘hides’ a lot of the work that goes on behind the scenes. This post will explain how [...]
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Surfacing Google Analytics stats in DSpace
In the recent survey asking the DSpace community for their top 3 feature requests for DSpace 1.6, the number one most requested feature was statistics. As you’ll know from previous posts, I’m a big fan of Google Analytics.
For the uninitiated, you insert a small bit of JavaScript in your web pages, and Google provide a [...]
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