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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Using GMail with DSpace

From time to time a DSpace repository will send emails. It does this when new users are added, when new items are added, when workflow tasks need to be completed, when exports have completed etc etc. For DSpace production servers this is normally trivial to set up; enter the name of your email server in [...]

Posted on September 5, 2009 at 10:22 am by Stuart · Permalink · 3 Comments
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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 [...]

Posted on July 28, 2009 at 8:19 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Direct from MS Word to DSpace via SWORD

As a member of the SWORD project, it has been a great seeing Microsoft’s External Research group integrate SWORD into Word 2007, their Zentity repository, and their online journal hosting system. There is a good overview of this work in a presentation given by Pablo Fernicola at the Open Repositories 2009 conference entitled ‘Connecting Authors and Repositories [...]

Posted on July 4, 2009 at 8:23 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 24 Comments
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SWORD PHP Library version 0.7 released

I have just released version 0.7 of the SWORD PHP library. It can be downloaded from http://php.swordapp.org/ This latest version adds two new features: When performing a deposit, the client now sets the ‘Content-Disposition:filename’ header so that the SWORD server knows what to name the file. This is required by SWORD implementations (such as the [...]

Posted on June 23, 2009 at 9:03 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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How does the Facebook SWORD client actually work?

I’ve been asked a few questions recently about how SWORD clients work, and in particular how the SWORD Facebook client works. The Facebook client is one of the most complete demonstration clients that there is, and as such ‘hides’ a lot of the work that goes on behind the scenes. This post will explain how [...]

Posted on June 2, 2009 at 12:05 am by Stuart · Permalink · 11 Comments
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Surfacing Google Analytics stats in DSpace

In the recent survey asking the DSpace community for their top 3 feature requests for DSpace 1.6, the number one most requested feature was statistics. As you’ll know from previous posts, I’m a big fan of Google Analytics. For the uninitiated, you insert a small bit of JavaScript in your web pages, and Google provide [...]

Posted on May 29, 2009 at 4:03 am by Stuart · Permalink · 26 Comments
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Easy pseudo-video streaming for DSpace repositories

A few days ago someone posted an enquiry to the dspace-general email list asking how to embed a video player in DSpace web pages. This was followed up by a lot of replies along the lines of “it would be great if DSpace could do that!”. I wrote a quick reply saying how I thought [...]

Posted on May 27, 2009 at 8:06 am by Stuart · Permalink · 41 Comments
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