Email your repository
What modern information handling system do we probably interact with most each day? For the majority of us, it is probably our email. We send and recive dozens of emails each day. So how about enabling repository deposit via email? It has certainly been talked about from time to time, and a plugin to the [...]
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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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SWORD PHP library
As part of the JISC funded SWORD2 project, I have now written a PHP library for SWORD which is now available for download from: http://php.swordapp.org/ There are many web applications that could deposit into repositories using SWORD, and many of these are written in PHP. Examples might include open source Content Management Systems, Blogs or [...]
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Launched today: the Facebook repository deposit application
Within the repositories community we often talk about how to encourage faculty to self-archive their works. We also talk about the problems with repositories, and how repositories are not yet part of the daily toolkit of faculty. In an attempt to see whether bringing these two problems together by allowing faculty to deposit from within [...]
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A benefit of the SWORD / AtomPub relationship
Now that version 1.3 of SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) has been published, it is time to get cracking with implementing it. One of my roles in the project is to maintain the Java and the PHP SWORD libraries. One of the nice new features in version 1.3 are error documents. These allow errors [...]
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More on Microsoft and SWORD
Pablo Fernicola (Microsoft) has just written a blog entry about The Microsoft eJournal Service and how this “is a good example of a growing trend towards delivering functionality through the Software as a Service approach“. Of most interest to me is their continued support for SWORD. As well as the eJournal Service supporting SWORD, they have built SWORD [...]
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SWORD deposit tool for MS Word 2007 released
Repository developers who don’t read Savas’ blog miss out of a lot of information about repository development happening within Microsoft (and lots of other interesting posts too). Yesterday was no exception, with a post about a humorous video posted by Microsoft, but of more relevance and interest is the blog post about the launch of [...]
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Microsoft SWORD announcements
It has been very encouraging to see two announcements within the last 24 hours from Microsoft regarding SWORD: The first came in the form of an email from Lee Dirks to the American Scientist Open Access Forum. In the email Lee says: Microsoft Research and arXiv.org have been working closely on the adoption/utilization of the [...]
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