DSpace 1.5.2 – What’s in it for me?
You may have seen the recent announcement saying that DSpace 1.5.2 is now released. When it comes to upgrading software, especially something as large and possibly critical as repository software, there is always a decision to be made about whether to upgrade or not. As one of the DSpace committers, I’ve worked on some of [...]
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SWORD PHP library
As part of the JISC funded SWORD2 project, I have now written a PHP library for SWORD which is now available for download from: http://php.swordapp.org/ There are many web applications that could deposit into repositories using SWORD, and many of these are written in PHP. Examples might include open source Content Management Systems, Blogs or [...]
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Launched today: the Facebook repository deposit application
Within the repositories community we often talk about how to encourage faculty to self-archive their works. We also talk about the problems with repositories, and how repositories are not yet part of the daily toolkit of faculty. In an attempt to see whether bringing these two problems together by allowing faculty to deposit from within [...]
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New SWORD test repository available to all
Have you ever wanted to try out SWORD, but don’t yet have a repository that supports it? As part of the JISC funded ‘SWORD 2′ project, we have now made available a test DSpace repository at the following URL: http://dspace.swordapp.org/ If you’ve not used SWORD before, and want to give it a go, here’s what [...]
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A benefit of the SWORD / AtomPub relationship
Now that version 1.3 of SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) has been published, it is time to get cracking with implementing it. One of my roles in the project is to maintain the Java and the PHP SWORD libraries. One of the nice new features in version 1.3 are error documents. These allow errors [...]
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More on Microsoft and SWORD
Pablo Fernicola (Microsoft) has just written a blog entry about The Microsoft eJournal Service and how this “is a good example of a growing trend towards delivering functionality through the Software as a Service approach“. Of most interest to me is their continued support for SWORD. As well as the eJournal Service supporting SWORD, they have built SWORD [...]
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SWORD deposit tool for MS Word 2007 released
Repository developers who don’t read Savas’ blog miss out of a lot of information about repository development happening within Microsoft (and lots of other interesting posts too). Yesterday was no exception, with a post about a humorous video posted by Microsoft, but of more relevance and interest is the blog post about the launch of [...]
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Microsoft SWORD announcements
It has been very encouraging to see two announcements within the last 24 hours from Microsoft regarding SWORD: The first came in the form of an email from Lee Dirks to the American Scientist Open Access Forum. In the email Lee says: Microsoft Research and arXiv.org have been working closely on the adoption/utilization of the [...]
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