Tag Archives: eprints

Populating OJS from EPrints

From the SAS Open Journals project blog. Now that a full complement of Amicus Curiae articles has been loaded into the SAS-Space repository, I have been looking at ways to populate the OJS database automatically using the metadata available in the repository. We are fortunate, as ever, that EPrints provides a wide range of export formats [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Synergies abound

Some days it all seems worthwhile and last Friday was such a day. I spent most of it at SOAS listening to accounts of the many digitisation projects of the Centre for Digital Africa, Asia and the Middle East (CeDAAME), including the Fürer-Haimendorf photographic collection, Islamic manuscripts (in partnership with Yale) and other justly named [...]