If SWORD is the answer, what is the question?

I’ve just had a new collaborative paper published: ‘If SWORD is the answer, what is the question?’ (DOI: 10.1108/00330330910998057). It covers the most recent iteration of the SWORD repository deposit standard, looks briefly at some issues around the present lack of adoption of SWORD, and most usefully presents seven use cases of SWORD written by [...]

Posted on October 13, 2009 at 9:40 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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DSpace at a third of a million items

As part of the JISC-funded ROAD (Robot-generated Open Access Data) project we are load testing DSpace EPrints and Fedora to see how they cope with holding large numbers of items. For a bit of background, see an earlier blog post: ‘About to load test DEF repositories‘
The project programmer Antony Corfield has created a SWORD deposit [...]

Posted on January 19, 2009 at 10:32 am by Stuart · Permalink · 20 Comments
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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 [...]

Posted on July 18, 2008 at 1:16 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 4 Comments
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