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Category Archives: Institutional Repositories
WRAP—Warwick Research Archive Project: Final Report
The WRAP—Warwick Research Archive Project: Final Report has been released by the project.
Here's an excerpt:
WRAP's aim was to capitalise on the learning from early adopter institutional repository projects and build a repository for the University of Warwick that would further develop understanding of how repositories can meet the needs of their stakeholders.
Key objectives were to [...] Continue reading
Institutional Repositories: The Great Debate
The latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology features a section on "Institutional Repositories: The Great Debate," with pro and con articles on four IR topics.
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“Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications”
The latest issue of The Code4Lib Journal includes "Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications."
Here's an excerpt:
In the digital age libraries are required to manage large numbers of diverse objects. One advantage of digital objects over fixed physical objects is the flexibility of ‘binding’ them into publications or other useful [...] Continue reading
“Repository Software Survey, March 2009?
The Repositories Support Project has released the "Repository Software Survey, March 2009," which analyzes the CONTENTdm, Digital Commons, DigiTool, DSpace, EPrints, EQUELLA, Fedora, intraLibrary, Research-Output Repository Platform, Open Repository, and VITAL digital repository systems.
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DSpace Statistics Add-on Version 2.1 Released
The RepositóriUM team at Minho University has released version 2.1 of the DSpace Statistics Add-on.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
The Statistics System is an add-on to the DSpace platform that allows gathering, processing and presenting usage, content and administrative statistics. Despite the fact that its development was done to meet the specific needs of RepositóriUM, [...] Continue reading
New HatCheck Issue from Fedora Commons
The Fedora Commons has published a new issue of its HatCheck newsletter.
Among the news items is a short article on Fedora 3.2, which is anticipated to be released on 5/5/09, and another short article on Project Wunderkammer, which is "a platform for development of museum collections management systems."
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eXtensible Catalog (XC) OAI Toolkit Released
The eXtensible Catalog project has released the eXtensible Catalog (XC) OAI Toolkit.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
The OAI Toolkit is used to make data stored in an institution's ILS or other repository available for harvesting via OAI-PMH, including other eXtensible Catalog applications. For an ILS, this is accomplished by exporting ILS metadata, converting it from [...] Continue reading
CLASM: Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD for Moodle
Richard M. Davis has announced that JISC has funded the CLASM (Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD for Moodle) project. (Moodle is an open source course management system.)
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
This will be a six-month project with a double-edged purpose: to develop a SWORD plugin for Moodle, so that it can interact, platform independently, [...] Continue reading
Two Million Plus Downloads: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institutional Repository
As of today, the DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln repository contains over 31,000 documents, has had 2,132,581 full-text downloads to date, and 1,307,822 downloads in the past year (see the bottom of the repository's home page). It is also used to publish RURALS: Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences, a gratis open access journal. [...] Continue reading