Eprints REST Interface

Our web team are looking into using the Eprints REST interface to pull information from the repository onto other sites. Has anyone had any experience with this?

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Versions

Version One of the Versions toolkit is out – http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/versions/VERSIONS_Toolkit_v1_final.pdf
I’m keen to add something like this to my repository info, especially after today’s ruptions re e-theses (don’t ask..)..

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The University of Google – my information skills rant of the week.

I’m currently reading “The University of Google: education in the [post] education age” by Tara Brabazon. It’s absolutely fascinating, highly recommended for anyone interested in higher education and information skills in the digital age. I need to buy a copy myself, because as I’m reading I feel the need to highlight passages all [...]

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Christmas reading

A few bits and bobs to read over the holiday season:
Developing an integrated institutional repository at Imperial College London by Afshari & Jones.
HEFCE Consultation on the assessment and funding of higher education research post-2008
Finally in the library, Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous.
Or I may just swing by the Bath Central Library this afternoon and go on [...]

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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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YouTube vid

Thanks to Gareth Johnston from the RSP in Nottingham for sending this on. I think it spells out the issues in quite the sophisticated manner. Nice one Gaz!

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Communities in DSpace

I met with Pete from UKOLN this afternoon to chat about communities and collections in DSpace. From the examples I’ve seen it seems most Higher Ed institutions use the communities and sub-communities to reflect the faculties and departments of the university, and the collections to describe the type of item, such as journal article, [...]

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DSpace installation

Kelvin’s working on our DSpace install, wading through the documentation and nutting out integration issues. We paid a visit to the University of Bristol repository people on Friday afternoon, and I think this helped a lot. They’ve been in the repository game a lot longer, and Naveed, their tech support has implemented a [...]

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