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 [...]
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Easy pseudo-video streaming for DSpace repositories
A few days ago someone posted an enquiry to the dspace-general email list asking how to embed a video player in DSpace web pages. This was followed up by a lot of replies along the lines of “it would be great if DSpace could do that!”. I wrote a quick reply saying how I thought [...]
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DSpace 1.6 survey results
Well, the results of the recent DSpace 1.6 survey in which we asked the DSpace community to list the top three features they would like to see in version 1.6 have now been published. The results will probably come as no surprise, but here are the top three features: Better statistics An embargo facility Batch [...]
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DSpace 1.6: You decide!
From an email I sent out to the DSpace email lists today: As you’ll have seen from recent emails, the DSpace community has now released version 1.5.2 of the DSpace software. It has many new features, some enhancements to current features, and some bug fixes. Many of you will also know that a small team [...]
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DSpace Google Summer of Code students 2009
For the third year in a row, the DSpace Foundation has been successful in being selected to take part in the annual Google Summer of Code (a.k. GSOC). This year we welcome back one past student, and three new students to work on the DSpace repository code to develop new features and to experiment a [...]
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DSpace 1.5.2 – What’s in it for me?
You may have seen the recent announcement saying that DSpace 1.5.2 is now released. When it comes to upgrading software, especially something as large and possibly critical as repository software, there is always a decision to be made about whether to upgrade or not. As one of the DSpace committers, I’ve worked on some of [...]
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