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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SWORD PHP Library – version 1.0 finally released!
After over 2.5 years of development and refinement, I have finally released version 1.0 of the SWORD PHP library! The library has been relatively stable for quite some time now, and is firmly embedded in tools such as EasyDeposit and OJS. The other reason that I wanted to get it released (after many earlier 0.x [...]
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EasyDeposit now supports Shibboleth
Just a quick note to say that the latest release of EasyDeposit now supports Shibboleth authentication. Or to be precise, it supports any form of authentication where the user’s details are passed via HTTP headers / environment variables. This includes other SSO (Single Sign-On) systems such as CoSign. To use, select the ‘ssologin’ step as [...]
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Recent writing
This blog has been pretty quiet over the past few months. There are a few reasons for that! First, I’ve been working in my spare time as the Community Manager for the new JISC-funded ‘SWORD v2‘ project. The role is partially project-manager (in terms of paperwork, project plans, etc), but mostly community management (managing email [...]
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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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