November 6, 2009
The morning sessions a the recent JISCRI deposit tools show and tell meeting in London (DepoST) offered a whirlwind of elevator pitches for the many existing repository deposit tools. Details of the tools from the pitches have been neatly captured by David Flanders on the JISCinvolve blog.
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/03/part-1-of-2-report-on-depost-deposit-tool-show-tell-meeting-2009-12-10/
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/03/part-2-of-2-evaluation-of-the-deposit-tool-show-and-tell-features-and-flows-of-deposit/
In the midst of the afternoon sessions there where [...]
April 17, 2009
Over the past couple of months I’ve had a chance to hear updates from a number of repository software developers (at a Fedora training day, at DEV8D and on a number of blogs). Albeit slightly delayed by holidays, here’s a bit of a snapshot of where ePrints, DSpace, Fedora, Microsoft’s repository are at. There’s a [...]
March 10, 2009
#dev8D
Developer happiness days http://www.dev8d.org/ was a week long JISC-sponsored event organised by David Flanders and Andy McGregor. It set out to bring “together the cream of the crop of educational software developers along with coders from other sectors, users, and technological tinkerers in an exciting new forum.” The event was a success and its [...]
November 19, 2008
I’ve been following with interest the tweets and blog posts from the SPARC Digital Repositories meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/). Online casino bonuses; Though I haven’t given them the attention the deserve yet, I was struck by a presentation that didn’t get given…
On his blog and slideshare Les Carr posted a presentation that he didn’t get round to [...]
November 7, 2008
Over on the IE blog Andy McGregor has a useful annotated list of some of the online tools that he has used to help with programme management.
Many could be just as useful projects - distributed or not.
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/06/web-tools-for-programme-management/
On a related note David Flanders has a useful and extensive reflection and how to guide on contracting [...]
October 16, 2008
Last week Savas Parastatidis blogged about two repository-related outputs from Microsoft Research that have just reached beta - one of which, OfficeSWORD, is open source and the other, their research-output repository, is free for non-commercial use.
Please note the following is not based on using these applications, but on what they describe themselves as doing [...]
August 20, 2008
I realize this may be old news but in case anyone has missed it Microsoft have released a plug-in for some of their Office2007 products that allows Creative Commons licensing to be added into files.
From Microsoft’s site http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/tc/scholarly_communication.mspx
“Creative Commons Add-in v1.0 for Microsoft Office
This add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, and Office [...]
August 7, 2008
What are the key changes going on in the world of digital libraries, repositories, and academic life? Over the summer I’ve been thinking a little on some of this - in part been prompted by my aforementioned change in job and in part because I’ve been on holiday and it’s afforded a few moments of [...]
December 3, 2007
At the end of this week JISC’s Common Repositories Interfaces Group (CRIG) are holding a two day meeting to look at the key scenarios affecting repository interfaces.
Our discussions for the two days are going to build on a series of teleconferences organised by the CRIG support project - WoCRIG which have just been podcast. I’m [...]
