The SWORD course videos now online
I recently blogged about ‘The SWORD Course’, as the slides had been put onto slideshare. Now, thanks to UKOLN’s Adrian Stevenson, the videos are now available too: An Introduction to SWORD: Gives an overview of SWORD, the rationale behind its creation, and details of the first three funded SWORD projects SWORD Use Cases: Provides an [...]
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The SWORD course slides now online
As part of the JISC-funded SWORD 3 project, I created ‘The SWORD Course’ and presented it during a two hour workshop at the recent Open Repositories 2010 conference in Madrid. The aim of the course was to empower repository managers and repository developers who knew what SWORD was, but who are not currently using it, [...]
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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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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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