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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Launch of ‘The DSpace Course’
This afternoon we (the JISC-funded Repositories Support Project) formally launched ‘The DSpace Course‘ – a creative commons licensed course for new DSpace repository administrators and developers. There are currently 20 modules, and a Live CD that can be used for the training. The course is designed to be taught by a trainer, and used in a [...]
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Lessons from teaching DSpace
Yesterday I spent the day with a colleague delivering a training day aimed at new or potential DSpace administrators as part of my role working with the Repositories Support Project (known as the RSP). We had a fun, interesting and busy day talking about DSpace, but a few hiccups along the way. With each event [...]
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