EasyDeposit – SWORD deposit tool creator
The development of the SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol has enabled repositories to start accepting deposits from remote systems and interfaces. If you’re unsure of the...
View ArticleDSpace 1.6 – What will be in it for me?
Soon after the release of DSpace 1.5.2 in April 2009 I wrote a blog article ‘DSpace 1.5.2: What’s in it for me?’. The final release of DSpace 1.6 is due shortly, and as the release co-ordinator I...
View ArticleOn DSpace development
Over the past 9 months I’ve had the privilege to hold the position of ‘DSpace Release Co-coordinator’. This has meant that I’ve been able to not only work with a group of dedicated and talented...
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EasyDeposit – DOI integration with the CrossRef API
A few weeks ago I wrote about the EasyDeposit system we’ve created at The University of Auckland Library. In a nutshell, it allows you to easily create custom web-based SWORD deposit interfaces to...
View ArticleDSpace 1.6 released!
As you will have hopefully read in the publicity that has gone out – DSpace 1.6 is finally released! It has been 9 or 10 months in the making, has involved and benefited from a lot of input from dozens...
View ArticleThe SWORD course slides now online
As part of the JISC-funded SWORD 3 project, I created ‘The SWORD Course’ and presented it during a two hour workshop at the recent Open Repositories 2010 conference in Madrid. The aim of the course was...
View ArticleThe SWORD course videos now online
I recently blogged about ‘The SWORD Course’, as the slides had been put onto slideshare. Now, thanks to UKOLN’s Adrian Stevenson, the videos are now available too: An Introduction to SWORD: Gives an...
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Life used to be so simple / unconfigurable
I had a spare hour this afternoon, so I thought I’d take a quick look at how dspace.cfg has changed over time. Anyone who has had the pleasure of looking after a DSpace server will know about...
View ArticleThe collection is dead! Long live the collection!
“The collection is dead! Long live the collection!” That summarises my current thoughts and feelings about the collection hierarchy structure in DSpace. When first installed, DSpace shows its need for...
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ResourceSync and SWORD
This is the third post is a short series of blog posts about ResourceSync. Thanks to Jisc funding, a small number of us from the UK have been involved in the NISO / OAI ResourceSync Initiative. This...
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