Posts Tagged ‘dspace’
Open Repositories 2009
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 10th June, 2009
Less than three weeks have passed since I found myself at Open Repositories 2009 (#OR09) in Atlanta, and it already seems a long time ago. For the record, Georgia Tech put on an excellent show, overflowing with fascinating presentations, people and ideas – far too many to take in – and (most importantly) an excellent [...]
OAI-PMH: decline or fall?
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 2nd May, 2008
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A recent post on the GoogleWebMasterCentral blog alerts us to Google’s withdrawal of support for OAI-PMH for Google Sitemaps. The resources required to support it were, says Google, disproportionate to the number of sites using it. Does this mean that OAI-PMH is a standard that’s had its day? Some commentators have gleefully rejoiced in the [...]
Open Repositories 2008 in Southampton
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 2nd April, 2008
Enjoyed the last couple of days at OR08 in Southampton, catching up with the OR crowd and developments, as well as presenting on our work with Eprints for Linnean Online and SNEEP. The conference was organised with gusto by Les Carr and the Southampton team, who kept things moving at a rapid pace, seemingly unphased [...]
DSpace User Group 2007
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 24th October, 2007
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The DSpace Community held its User Group conference in Rome this year that was every bit as interesting and entertaining as last year’s DSUG in Bergen. The conference was held at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) headquarters in the centre of Rome. The 8th Floor terrace restaurant at FAO must have one of [...]
Fact-finding among the fjords
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 3rd May, 2006
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IR Workshop and DSpace User Group Meeting 2006: Bergen, Norway The University of Bergen hosted a lively and entertaining conference for DSpace users from 19th-21st April (though I only narrowly avoided registering for a Norwegian Fishermen’s conference being held in the same venue). [1] Many speakers laid particular emphasis on the theme of Open Access [...]
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