Gearing up for EthosNet – Electronic Thesis Online Service

It’s been a while since I looked at the EthosNet instructions on DSpace OAI Crosswalk plug-in. I’ve created a separate community within OPuS, our repository, and plan to use this for harvesting. I’ve added at least the basic metadata fields outlined so those are ready to go.
Now, I’m going out to the masses [...]

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UKCoRR meeting II

Somewhere between Bristol and Birmingham, I realised that I didn’t have the meeting room or location details for the second UKCoRR meeting held last Friday. I had the agenda, supporting papers, and attendee’s list, but no location. Luckily at the Nottingham railway station I bumped into two people who knew where to go [...]

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UKCoRR meeting tomorrow

Tomorrow it’s an early start on the train up to Nottingham for the UKCoRR meeting. The last meeting was in May – a really good day, where I wrote masses of notes (I wasn’t quite in post then, and everything was new) which was lucky because I’d left on the Sunday afternoon for [...]

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Blog, blogs, blogging about institutional repository repositories

Or should that be ‘It’s All About The Metadata Baby’..
I’m working on my Internet Librarian International masterclass material and realised I the reason I’m working on this my:self-archive blog is partly to record my experiences in setting up our institutional repository to share with colleagues who are about to do the same and GUESS WHAT?! [...]

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RSP Summer School

The Repository Support Project Summer School was held at Dartington Hall in Totnes, Devon. The event ran from 27-29 June 2007, and offered new or potential repository managers the chance to learn more about various aspects of repository development and management. More on the summer school itself can be found on the RSP [...]

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