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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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 [...]
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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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