Building a ‘blogliography’
I shall shortly be moving on to pastures new from my current role at The University of Auckland Library. Before I depart, I wanted to document a few of the projects that I have worked on during my (almost) three years in Auckland, the first of which is contained in this post: a project to [...]
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The collection is dead! Long live the collection!
“The collection is dead! Long live the collection!” That summarises my current thoughts and feelings about the collection hierarchy structure in DSpace. When first installed, DSpace shows its need for a community and collection hierarchy, because without at least one community, containing at least one collection, it is impossible to even submit an item. Therefore, [...]
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Android SWORD deposit mobile app
As part of the Open Repositories 2011 Developers Challenge, our team submitted a few different prototypes that formed our vision of ‘The Future of Repositories’. Our whole entry centered around the theme of ‘Raas’, or ‘Repository as a Service’. The notion of RaaS included the ability for the Repository become a commodity which could be [...]
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Life used to be so simple / unconfigurable
I had a spare hour this afternoon, so I thought I’d take a quick look at how dspace.cfg has changed over time. Anyone who has had the pleasure of looking after a DSpace server will know about dspace.cfg. It is the main configuration file for DSpace where many of the configurable options reside. These vary [...]
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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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Deposit to multiple repositories
One of the classic use cases for SWORD is deposit to multiple repositories at once. This could be used if a researcher has to deposit copies of their work to both an institutional repository and a funder’s repository, and also perhaps a subject-based repository. (In ‘real life’ this use case is not so far in [...]
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SWORD workshop at OR10
As a member of the JISC funded SWORD project I’ll be giving a 2 hour workshop about SWORD at the Open Repositories 2010 conference (Friday July 9th, 2:!5-4:30 pm). The intention of the workshop is to provide a practical hands-on introduction to SWORD. An overview of the proposed programme has been posted on the OR10 [...]
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