Tag Archives: repositories

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 2011 (Part 2): The Developer Challenge

An event that asked developers to demonstrate the Future of Repositories can only be considered a great success when it receives entries that include: Multiple real-time examples of using “Repositories As A Service (RaaS)”, not only exchanging data but also sharing sophisticated functionality between EPrints and DSpace – and even including an Android application A [...]

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 [...]