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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 [...]

In an email from Sam Easterby-Smith about Mediawiki skins, he also mentioned that he had got both WordPress and Mediawiki working with LDAP, which sounds like a worthy achievement. I followed up a link to his blog at and about CETIS http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sam/2006/09/14/fitting-ldap-to-wordpress-mu/. Since he has set up both Mediawiki and WordPress for CETIS he could [...]

Today I presented this Bluffer’s guide to Institutional Repositories at the WESLINE Colloquium, hosted by IGRS. Bluffer's Guide to Institutional Repositories view presentation (tags: universities libraries repositories irs) I followed on from Zoe’s demonstration of SAS-Space. Also presenting during our session was Ed King from BL, who had a fascinating account of the 19th Century [...]

Had to note the passing of this excellent map of Online Communities – in the style of all our favourite ’70s nonsense maps of Tolkien’s Middle Earth.

In the Preservation Business, there are surely only two things you have to remember: Put things away carefully. Check them thoroughly and clean them up, if necessary, before filing them in a sensible place, in a sensible order. Look at them once in a while. Take them out, dust them off, love them, understand them. [...]

Wow, a pictorial history of mousetraps. Evidently, disappointingly, it wasn’t anything like the Little Nipper that Hamlet had in mind: maybe something more like these “humane” basket type traps. I was pleased, in my little web digression on the subject, to discover the ongoing online wikified version of Samuel Pepys’ diary, and learn that the [...]

I managed to submit my first assignment for my MSc E-Learning yesterday. I was spoiled for choice for ways to do it. I had wanted from the outset to do it as a TiddlyWiki, but was a bit nervous about committing to it, until I could be sure it wouldn’t eat what I wrote – [...]

Social site for college kids, Facebook seems to be big in Cote d’Ivoire, either that or hundreds of pasty-looking UK students seem to have taken to gone troppo for their studies. Here’s why: [Wed Dec 06 19:28:50 2006] Why have Country settings in my profile changed from “UK” to “Cote d’Ivoire”? We updated our country [...]