Back in the UK
This is just a quick blog post to say that I am now back in the UK, following almost three wonderful years in Auckland, New Zealand at The University of Auckland. Having worked in England and Wales,...
View ArticleA tale of two bids
This is a tale of two bids; two recent JISC bids to be precise. One submitted via the ‘traditional’ route, and one via the experimental ‘Elevator‘ route. This blog post is a brief reflection of my...
View ArticleThoughts on the Elevator
The JISC have been running an experimental funding system known as the JISC Elevator. The introduction on the site’s homepage describes the concept well: JISC elevator is a new way to find and fund...
View ArticleIs the Repository Developer a dying breed?
Is the Repository Developer a dying breed, and should we care? Cast your mind back, perhaps seven or eight years. It was the heyday of repository development. Projects such as DSpace and EPrints were...
View ArticleOh, the admin and the coder should be friends!
This is a tongue-in-cheek blog post a few days before the Open Repositories 2012 conference that is being held here in Edinburgh. I’ll give a bit of background first, a disclaimer, a video, then the...
View ArticleFacebook advertising Open Access “Are you a researcher?”
2012 has been a busy year in the world of Open Access. From a UK funding point of view, the big news has included the Finch Report and the RCUK’s reaction this in its new Policy on Access to Research...
View ArticleThe ResourceSync PHP Library
Over the past year, thanks to funding from the Jisc, I’ve been involved with the NISO / OAI ResourceSync initiative. The aim of ResourceSync is to provide mechanisms for large-scale synchronisations...
View ArticleResourcesync: Making things happen with callbacks
In a previous blog post I introduced the ResourceSync PHP API library. This is a code library written PHP that makes it easy to interact with web sites that support the new ResourceSync standard. The...
View ArticleResourceSync and SWORD
This is the third post is a short series of blog posts about ResourceSync. Thanks to Jisc funding, a small number of us from the UK have been involved in the NISO / OAI ResourceSync Initiative. This...
View ArticleGitHub to repository deposit
Over the past few months there have been positive shifts in the infrastructure available to archive software. To ‘archive software’ can mean many things to many people, but for the purposes of this...
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