Tag Archives: repositories

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Innovations in Reference Management

Who would have thought that reference management could be so interesting? We spent a  very informative and enjoyable Thursday in snowy Milton Keynes, at the Innovations in Reference Management (#IRM10) event (part of the OU/JISC TELSTAR project). All thoroughly blogged by Owen Stephens, and tweeted by many. Owen Stephens and Jason Platts of OU described [...]

A repository for pi(es)

As you may have read recently, Fabrice Bellard has announced the computation of π to almost 2.7 trillion decimal places using a faster algorithm that allows desktop technology to be used, rather than the supercomputers that are usually used to break this particular record. Bellard is an extremely talented programmer who has made a useful [...]