Test LDAP service
One of the first integration tasks undertaken on a new repository installation is to plug it in to the local authentication system. More often than not this is LDAP. It allows users to use their usual local username and password in the repository rather than having to remember another password. LDAP services can be provided [...]
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Preserving reactions to Lord Of The Rings
‘Preserving reactions to Lord Of The Rings’ is a funny blog posting title, but I’ll explain… Back in 2003 to 2004, our department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies undertook the biggest audience response survey to a film ever. They collected just short of 25,000 responses to the films from speakers of 14 different languages. [...]
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Tracking repository searches from the inside
One of the many great features of Google Analytics is that it can shown the search terms that visitors to your site have used in search engines. This is a great tool for finding out what brings users to your repository. Seven months ago Google launched a new feature in Google Analytics that also allows [...]
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Lessons from teaching DSpace
Yesterday I spent the day with a colleague delivering a training day aimed at new or potential DSpace administrators as part of my role working with the Repositories Support Project (known as the RSP). We had a fun, interesting and busy day talking about DSpace, but a few hiccups along the way. With each event [...]
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Shibboleth, SWORD, and DSpace 1.5
It was nice to see the announcement recently from the MAMS (Meta Access Management System) project at Macquarie University in Australia that they have implemented Shibboleth authentication for DSpace 1.5. It makes use of the stackable authentication system, and is therefore very nicely integrated with the DSpace architecture. I’ve been playing with Shibboleth a bit [...]
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Repository bounce rates
I’ve often wondered about what people do when they visit a repository, and whether what they are doing while visiting the repository could be considered ‘good’ in terms of the usefulness and general aims of the repository. Let me explain… I’m a big fan of Google Analytics, and one of the things it lets you [...]
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