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Fish and Correspondence on Linnean-Online
Since November 2007 the linnean-online collection has allowed the public access to digitised images of plant (and since this summer insect) specimens held by the Linnean Society of London. This week...
View ArticleSNEEP 0.3.2 (now with automagic installer) + PICT (SNEEP evolves!)
SNEEP 0.3.2 The JISC funded SNEEP project (Social Networking Extensions for EPrints) – part of the original JISC rapid innovation programme – aimed to provide a set of social networking tools for...
View ArticlePICT Memento plugin allows us to step into a wiki’s past
The PICT project is pretty much over, but I can steal a few moments out of my day every now and then to do a bit of house keeping, try out a new plugin and maybe even blog about it. Inspired by Rob...
View ArticleSHERPA-LEAP: Handy Hints: MIME-Types
From the SHERPA-LEAP blog. Some repositories have reported issues with Microsoft “DOCX” files, which IE8 in particular may treat as a ZIP file. This is a potential problem with all the current slew of...
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Statistically relevant
From the SHERPA-LEAP blog. Over the last year or so we’ve installed and configured (in some cases reconfigured) the IRStats package for several of the LEAP repositories, including those hosted by ULCC....
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Open Metadata Pathway: A machine readable layer for AIM25
From the Open Metadata Pathway project blog I’ve been busy on the AIM25 test server adding a machine readable layer. Of course AIM25 has for a long time offered the metadata held for each collection as...
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SAS Open Journals: Making OJS and EPrints play nicely
Our main tasks at ULCC during the SAS Open Journals project were - to set-up the instance of PKP’s OJS software - to enable SWORD deposits to the SAS-Space repository - to configure OJS such that...
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SAS Open Journals: OJS and file conversion
The creation of an online version of Amicus Curiae, the opening salvo of the SAS-Journals project, was based on organising existing articles in PDF form. It is also the case that new content for...
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The small matter of scholarly communication
A conference is a conference, but one can’t help but be inspired to think a little bigger when a guest of the organisation that has engineered a 27km vacuum, have consistently made mind-boggling...
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Jisc Data Spring: Integrated RDM for Small and Specialist insitutions
Phase 1 completed Phase 1 of the Jisc data spring programme came to an end at the start of last week with an event at Imperial College London. After pooling our ideas at an initial workshop in...
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