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 an [...]

Posted on October 30, 2009 at 3:44 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Library Mashups book – Chapter 17 now Open Access

A new book ‘Library Mashups – Exploring new ways to delivery library data‘ has now been published. The book, edited by Nicole Engard, has a great list of 25 authors from all across the globe, including well known names in the library-tech world such as Tim Spalding, Ross Singer, Bess Sadler and Bonaria Biancu. The [...]

Posted on October 5, 2009 at 1:41 pm by Stuart · Permalink · One Comment
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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 [...]

Posted on December 15, 2008 at 7:06 am by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Repository mashup map software update

The Repository Mashup Map (http://maps.repository66.org/) has just undergone a bit of a software upgrade. Here are some details:

A JavaScript spring-clean: The JavaScript which powers the maps (not including the Google Maps code!) has evolved over time from a simple map showing repositories in the UK, to repositories worldwide, with data from multiple data sources, and [...]

Posted on August 12, 2008 at 9:29 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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BBC’s ‘Britain from above’ – Mashing-up the UK

There was a trailer shown as the last story on the BBC One 10 o’clock news last night for a new TV series starting next week called ‘Britain From Above‘. There is a news story introducing it online where you can watch a few clips. The series starts at 9pm on BBC1 on Sunday 10th [...]

Posted on August 4, 2008 at 7:18 am by Stuart · Permalink · One Comment
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Pro mashups book with a CC license

I’ve just followed a link to a blog from someones email footer, and found a book published this year: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Apress, 2008). The blog is by the author of the book Raymond Yee.
I was attracted to the blog and the book for two reasons:

I love mashups, and when I find the [...]

Posted on June 11, 2008 at 7:34 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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