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Open Repositories 2011 (Part 1)

Rory and I had a fun, productive and informative time at Open Repositories 2011 in Austin: everyone involved agreed that this year’s OR conference at the University of Texas was a great success. The conference kicked off with a keynote from Jim Jagielski of the Apache Software Foundation, describing the history and organisation behind Apache [...]

Open Repositories 2011 (Part 3): Changing Platforms

To OR11 I took a presentation, jointly with Imma Subirats, from UN FAO in Rome, which we called Changing Platforms. The aim of the presentation was to discuss the subject of migrating repositories between different software platforms. In addition to her work at FAO, Imma is Chief Executive for the E-LIS repository, a major international [...]

Open Repositories 2009

Less than three weeks have passed since I found myself at Open Repositories 2009 (#OR09) in Atlanta, and it already seems a long time ago. For the record, Georgia Tech put on an excellent show, overflowing with fascinating presentations, people and ideas – far too many to take in – and (most importantly) an excellent [...]

OAI-PMH: decline or fall?

A recent post on the GoogleWebMasterCentral blog alerts us to Google’s withdrawal of support for OAI-PMH for Google Sitemaps. The resources required to support it were, says Google, disproportionate to the number of sites using it. Does this mean that OAI-PMH is a standard that’s had its day? Some commentators have gleefully rejoiced in the [...]

Open Repositories 2008 in Southampton

Enjoyed the last couple of days at OR08 in Southampton, catching up with the OR crowd and developments, as well as presenting on our work with Eprints for Linnean Online and SNEEP. The conference was organised with gusto by Les Carr and the Southampton team, who kept things moving at a rapid pace, seemingly unphased [...]