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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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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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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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Keyword in Context Pictures (aka KWIC Pics)
The California Digital Library is developing a new interface for eScholarship, an open access publishing platform with over 25,000 scholarly works. One of the most exciting features in development is Keyword in Context Pictures (a.k.a. KWIC Pics)....
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Scanning for Success
In 2005, the Oregon State University Libraries (OSUL) launched its institutional repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU. Realizing a critical mass of content was essential for success OSUL initiated a digitization program focused on content already held ...
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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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Grad Student Takes on Publishing Giant
Are you wondering how to "light the fire" of open access to scholarly research with your graduate students?
UMass Amherst graduate student Chris Boulton was taken aback when he discovered that he was unable to use some images as core materials i...
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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
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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Teaching Digital Repositories
Is anyone teaching Digital Repositories in Information Science or Computer Science undergraduate or postgraduate courses? Can you point me at any curriculum descriptions?
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Looking for ideas...
Hi all. We're working with CARL on a new campaign to talk with faculty about digital repositories and why they should use them. In two, three, or four words, we want to describe the key benefit of repositories -- being exposure for research. (Take...
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