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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DSpace at a third of a million items
As part of the JISC-funded ROAD (Robot-generated Open Access Data) project we are load testing DSpace EPrints and Fedora to see how they cope with holding large numbers of items. For a bit of background, see an earlier blog post: ‘About to load test DEF repositories‘ The project programmer Antony Corfield has created a SWORD [...]
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Enable your repository to feed the world
I’ve been thinking and talking about RSS feeds (or Atom feeds if you’d prefer) from repositories recently with Les Carr to see what could be done with them when aggregated with feeds from all of the open access repositories across the globe. Les wrote a script to aggregate the feeds, so I provided him with [...]
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Launch of ‘The DSpace Course’
This afternoon we (the JISC-funded Repositories Support Project) formally launched ‘The DSpace Course‘ – a creative commons licensed course for new DSpace repository administrators and developers. There are currently 20 modules, and a Live CD that can be used for the training. The course is designed to be taught by a trainer, and used in a [...]
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Test LDAP service upgraded – now with branches
A few weeks ago I made a test LDAP service available (read the blog post) in order to allow people without an LDAP service to test their LDAP-related DSpace patches, or to help people configuring their DSpace LDAP settings by showing them an example with the correct configuration settings. I’ve been working recently to upgrade the [...]
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About to load test DEF repositories
One of the core aims of the ROAD project is to load test DSpace, EPrints and Fedora repositories to see how they scale when it comes to using them as repositories to archive large amounts of data (in the form of experimental results and metadata). According to ROAR, the largest repositories (housing open access materials) based on [...]
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