Posts Tagged ‘Reports’
JISC-PoWR @ IWMW2008
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 25th July, 2008
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Seems I turned up just in time for the UKOLN IWMW 2008 event at Aberdeen. The sun was shining, weather was sweet, and the University buildings in Old Aberdeen looked magnificent. Not only outside – the Conference Hall in the Old King’s Library is a beautiful example of state of the art conferencing facilities, complete [...]
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 [...]
En directo desde Mexico
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 28th March, 2008
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Here’s a picture hot off the press from Patricia at the ICA seminar for Mexican archivists. Patricia will be telling them all about her work on DPTP (in Spanish), and hopefully tell us all about her trip when she gets back.
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 [...]
PRIMO pilot launch
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 29th October, 2007
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PRIMO (Performance as Research in Music Online) was launched at Senate House last Friday (26th October) to an invited group of music researchers. Katharine Ellis gave an excellent explanation of the repository’s purpose, which is to provide a Trusted Repository for audio-visual records of musical research-in-practice. I followed on with a brief demo. Katharine and [...]
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 [...]
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