Author Archives: Rory McNicholl

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Statistically relevant

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. It seemed a good moment to share a few thoughts about the process of getting “all statted up” with EPrints. By default, and without any further action, [...]

Handy Hints: MIME-Types

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 MS file types. The solution is to add the following entries to your web server configuration. Extension MIME Type .xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet .xltx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template .potx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template [...]

PICT 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 Sanderson’s lightening talk at dev8D on Memento I decided to go for [...]

SNEEP 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 EPrints repositories. It ran for 6 months and ended in May 2008. Since the rather low key publication of the resultant EPrints plugin [...]

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 the on-line collection has been expanded to include 144 images of fish specimens held by the society. This part of the ongoing digitisation project [...]