Posts Tagged ‘repositories’
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 [...]
CLASM: Mashing up Moodle and repositories
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 17th March, 2009
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We were pleased to learn today that the JISC has agreed to fund our proposal to the Rapid Innovations strand of the recent call, for a project called CLASM: Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD for Moodle! This will be a six-month project with a double-edged purpose: to develop a SWORD plugin for Moodle, so that [...]
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 [...]
PRIMO: New version taking shape
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 21st October, 2008
The PRIMO Steering Committee met last week to discuss next steps towards the launch of the final version. There will be quite a few changes from the current beta version. Many of these are the result of Professor Katharine Ellis’s extensive advocacy and consultation, among both the musical research community, who will be the system’s [...]
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 [...]
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
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 5th April, 2008
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Full account of my adventures on DA Blog, but here’s the Slideshare version of my presentation. Maybe I’ll add commentary one day. On the margins of scholarship view presentation (tags: repositories web 2.0 universities)
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