In "ICE for Theses (ThesICE), Where We Are We Up To?," Peter Sefton, Manage of Software Research and Development Laboratory at the Australian Digital Futures Institute, discusses ThesICE (ICE for Theses). Here's an excerpt: Assuming that you have the resources to support ICE, which I’ll cover below there are a few reasons why an institution … Continue reading “Peter Sefton on ThesICE (ICE for Theses)”
Wendy Luker and Nick Sheppard have released Implementing an Institutional Repository for Leeds Metropolitan University: Final Report. The repository project was funded by JISC. Here's an excerpt: We are able to conclude from this project that Intrallect's intraLibrary software is extensible to a wide range of content and, in particular, adaptable to serve as an … Continue reading “Implementing an Institutional Repository for Leeds Metropolitan University“
Microsoft has released the Research-Output Repository Platform Version 1.0, which is called "Zentity." Here's an excerpt from the announcement (includes download link): The platform is based on Microsoft’s technologies (SQL Server 2008 and .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1) hence taking advantage of their robustness, their quality support infrastructure, and the plethora of developer-focused tools and … Continue reading “Microsoft Releases Research-Output Repository Platform Version 1.0”
DSpace 1.5.2 Stable has been released. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: This release is primarily a bug fix release incorporating numerous bug fixes and enhancements. We want to highlight the following additions: SWORD module/version 1.3.1 supporting the sword standard version 1.3 cocoon upgraded to 2.2 fix for the UTF-8 issues with the XMLUI new … Continue reading “DSpace 1.5.2 Stable Released”
The Repositories Support Project has released three briefing papers: "Handling Version Information" "Repository Deposit: SWORD" "Specifying Repository Requirements"
JISC has made available a number of widgets for repository-related services, such as JULIET, OpenDOAR, SWORD, and RoMEO, that can be used on iGoogle, Netvibes, and similar systems. ICO3 developed the widgets for JISC. You can see the widgets in action at JISC's Netvibes demo page.
Building on the work of the SWORD Project, the EM-Loader project will build software that allows authors to use the metadata from PublicationsList.org to deposit works in the Depot. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: We will show proof of concept at an early stage by building a web service module that connects two existing … Continue reading “EM-Loader: Making Self-Archiving Easier”
The Foresite Project has released the foresite-toolkit. Here's an excerpt from the announcement (footnotes removed): The Foresite project is pleased to announce the initial code of two software libraries for constructing, parsing, manipulating and serialising OAI-ORE Resource Maps. These libraries are being written in Java and Python, and can be used generically to provide advanced … Continue reading “Foresite Project OAI-ORE Resource Maps Software”
JISC is funding two projects to do small-scale OAI-ORE tests: TheOREM (Theses with ORE Metadata), at the University of Cambridge, aims to: Test the applicability of the ORE standard in a realistic scholarly setting—thesis description, submission and publication. Demonstrate the advantages of the ORE approach in complex object publication, by combining it with existing web-standards … Continue reading “Two JISC Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange Projects”
Presentations from the Open Repositories 2008 conference are available in the OR08 Publications repository. The easiest way to find presentations is to use the Browse by Subject capability; however, both simple and advanced search functions are available as well. Currently, the repository holds over 90 documents. You can track new additions at the Latest Additions … Continue reading “Open Repositories 2008 Presentations”
Version 1.5 of DSpace, which is a major upgrade, has been released. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.5! This is an important release of DSpace with many new features, including a completely new theme-able Manakin user interface, SWORD integration, many new configurable options, … Continue reading “DSpace Version 1.5 Released”
The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: "The ARROW Project: A Consortial Institutional Repository Solution, Combining Open Source and Proprietary Software"; "Collecting Metadata … Continue reading “Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Update (3/5/08)”
CETIS (Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Standards) has released presentations from its Metadata and Digital Repository Special Interest Group's February 12, 2008 meeting, which featured talks about selected projects in the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme. SlideShare presentations and MP3 files are available. The projects covered were Becta Vocabulary Management Services, DC-Education application profile, … Continue reading “Presentations from the CETIS Metadata and Digital Repository Special Interest Group Meeting”
JISC has issued two reports that examine the increasingly important problem of effectively managing digital identities: E-infrastructure Security: Levels of Assurance: Final Report and The Identity Project: Final Progress Reports. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Following two 12-month projects to investigate identity management in higher education and the levels of assurance needed to … Continue reading “Digital Identity Issues Explored in Two JISC Reports”
The Washington Post reports that the Motion Picture of Association of America is trying to persuade universities to utilize its new MPA University Toolkit, which uses Snort and ntop to provide detailed internal network use statistics that may identify possible copyright infringers. Security experts have determined that, in its default configuration, the MPA University Toolkit … Continue reading “MPAA Toolkit May Allow Internet Users to See Internal University Network Traffic”
Here are some reactions to the Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas verdict. "Bush Admin: RIAA Win Shows Copyright Law Is 'Effective'" "Democratic Congressman: RIAA's $222,000 Win Is 'Excessive'" "Downloading and Demonoid" "Minnesota Woman Who Owes RIAA $220,000 Calls Sum 'Ridiculous'" "Record Companies Blow Millions on Pyrrhic Victory" "RIAA’s So-Called Victory a Double Edged Sword" "Where … Continue reading “Reactions to the Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas Verdict”
