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Need help with MediaWiki

May I please bother one of you twittering folk to give me a hand with MediaWiki? Anyone know it well enough to operate? --Jen
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Checkout Sparc08 on Twitter

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sparc08
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twitter posts

if posting to twitter or flickr we should probably use #sparc08 but I am up for other suggestions.
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Comment to: Alvin Hutchinson

Hi Alvin,
I look forward to you innovation fair slot, and meeting you in person.
Michele Kimpton


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A repository workflow innovation

We are very grateful for U of Utah's work and have been bending the system to fit our unique environment. So far so good!

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Comment to: Adrian Ho

Hey Adrian- I'm actually not attending this meeting but Joan and Paul Royster our Scholarly Comm. Officer will be there.


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Announcing BibApp.org

The BibApp development and planning team is proud to unveil bibapp.org! BibApp is a research gateway, expert finder, citation gatherer, rights checker, and repository ingester all rolled into one. We are looking to release the first stable vers...
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Citeline - a Publishing Service for Bibliographic Citation Collections

Citeline (citeline.mit.edu) is an online service created to facilitate the web publishing of author bibliographies and citation collections as interactive exhibits and facilitate the sharing of this type of information with interested researchers....
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Akubra Project

The Akubra Project is a new effort to provide a pluggable file storage interface for digital repositories that can be adapted to almost any storage subsystem. We think that many repository systems (such as Fedora and DSpace) would benefit from a ...
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Keyword in Context Pictures (aka KWIC Pics)

Hi Joshua,

I don't know if DSpace or EPrints has done this, but if not hopefully we can start a trend...

--Martin

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SCPJ project: promoting Japanese scholarly societies’ understanding of open access

“SCPJ” (Society Copyright Policies in Japan) project is aimed to develop legal protocols for managing copyright issues in an open access environment. Most of scholarly journals in Japan are published by not commercial publishers but domestic schol...
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Repository promotion

What are some of the innovative ways you use to build trust, partnerships, and collaboration with scientists and faculty?
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INNOVATION Fair Slide

I've tried to learn from the experiences of others and with regard to content recruitment, we've instituted a new approach. The slide is just an outline of what I (in 2 minutes, I understand) will say.
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Teaching Digital Repositories

I teach it as part of a unit in my intro to technology in libraries course, but I really don't have more than a few slides to give you, I'm afraid!

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Comment to: Shane Beers

Hi, I am wondering how your 1-page quick submission form has come along as well as the university directory pull down. I am very interested in both. See you in Baltimore.

Best,
Ronee


Comment to: Marianne Buehler

You must be attending the conference? I look forward to meeting you!


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Scanning for Success

We have also done this at Illinois as well - it does help create good relations with many units to see past research available.

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Collecting a conference with Fedora

While the Fedora repository system is known to be an excellent storage location for digital content, its ability to handle aggregation of sources and distribution mechanisms has not yet been fully explored. Consider the problem of being a conferen...
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ETDs in an IR - A Collaborative Approach


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"My Research" - a cloud-based personal repository

How do we get researchers to deposit into institutional and domain repositories? By changing the conversation. Rather than asking researchers to upload objects into a repository, My Research presents a familiar desktop folder metaphor and provid...
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Geospatially Enabling DSpace Repositories

Together with Robin Rice
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Geospatially enabling DSpace Repositories

Presenting together with Guy McGarva. Make the most of your geospatial coverage metadata. Treat your users to a map interface to draw a bounding box to describe or search for a geographic area, or simply ensure consistency of input through...
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RUcore Repository Faculty Tools

For faculty, we designed a custom interface to our Workflow Management System. In addition, faculty can access their collections from their own web sites with our "partner portal" utility. To reduce redundancy, we are establishing an association b...
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Advocacy at Cranfield

Presenting with John Harrington. We thought that having an IR was a Win Win but 4 years on we realised that few people knew about it and contributions weren’t flooding in. A user requirement study indicated that · awareness of bot...
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Streamlining the Submission Process

In June 2008, the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) and the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library launched PolicyArchive (www.policyarchive.org), the nation’s first, free, comprehensive, online archive of...
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Update your R66!

All, http://maps.repository66.org/ is a mashup of data from OpenDOAR and ROAR and displays repositories around the world on a Google map. It's very cool; take a look. (Thanks Stuart Lewis!) And, please make sure your repository is up there. ...
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Comment to: Les Carr

Hey, thanks Les! Your mojo helps a ton.


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Looking for ideas...

** More Prestige for your Profile: expand your social network through your institutional repository
** More Esteem for your Establishment: expand your research group's visibility through your institutional repository
** More Reputation for your Results: expand your community's understanding through your institutional repository
** More Impact for your Imprint: expand your citation statistics through your institutional repository
** More Kudos for your Knowledge: expand your influence through your institutional repository

and then the punchline:
** More Prospects for your Promotion: expand your career options through your institutional repository

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Comment to: Jennifer McLennan

Thanks for working so hard on pulling this event together. Major respect!


Comment

hi i am here to know about digital repository and new open source software for it