Tag Archives: eprints

Doing It Differently In Sheffield Cathedral!

It was great to take part in last week’s Repositories Support Project event at Sheffield Cathedral. The theme of the day, organised by Jackie Wickham and the RSP team, was “Doing It Differently” and it covered a wide range of repository-related themes. I took along an updated and expanded version of the presentation I made [...]

Our new EPrints repository (is not just for Christmas)

As regular readers will know, we have been working with repositories for quite a few years now. In 2005 we began working with the School of Advanced Study on their requirements for an Institutional Repository, and since then we have installed, configured and maintained several repositories, including some highly customised, specialist systems. In most cases [...]

Launch of Fürer-Haimendorf Photographic Collection at SOAS

I spent some of Friday at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for the launch of the Fürer-Haimendorf Photographic Archive, a JISC-sponsored digitisation project that makes available the fantastic collection of photographs of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas taken by Christoph von Fürer Haimendorf between the 1930s and the 1970s. [...]

Open Access and Repositories in the Arts

On Tuesday I spent an interesting day at the British Academy discussing Open Access and Repositories in the Arts. The event was organised by the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and ably hosted by Bill Hubbard and Dominic Tate. I gave a short presentation on PRIMO; other projects covered included KULTUR (Andrew Gray from University of [...]

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 [...]