Posts Tagged ‘eprints’
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 [...]
JISC Eprints Training @ ULCC
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 19th November, 2008
We are pleased to be hosting an Eprints Training Day, organised by the JISC Repositories Support Project (RSP). The event will be on Thursday 11th December 2008 here at our building in Guilford Street. Les Carr and the Southampton Eprints team will be giving practical examples of setting up and managing an Eprints repository, and [...]
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 [...]
Launch of Linnean Online
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 2nd November, 2007
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Last night the Linnean Society launched the new image repository that we have developed for it using Eprints. The address of the system is http://www.linnean-online.org/. It contains over 14,000 high-resolution images of the Linnaean Herbarium – a collection of botanical specimens begun by Carl Linnaeus. At the Society’s headquarters in Piccadilly, Julia Hoare, Linnean Society’s [...]
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