Tag Archives: SNEEP

SNEEPing with CETIS in Bolton

If it’s Tuesday I must be in Bolton, at the JISC CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories Special Interest Group meeting, to present SNEEPish things to a much smaller and less daunting audience than in Southampton’s enormous lecture theatre last month. What’s more, it feels strange yet somehow liberating not to be discussing metadata for once. [...]

SNEEP: Beta release of Comments plugin for Eprints

A Beta release of the SNEEP Comments plugin for Eprints is now available in our demo repository: we invite any interested Eprints developers to download and test it. If you don’t have your own Eprints repository, you can get an idea of how the plugin works by looking at some demo items, or create an [...]

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 [...]

SNEEP: Project update

Here’s a brief update on the SNEEP project, while my colleagues are busy with preparations for the new NDAD service and next week’s DPTP course in Edinburgh (which I’m sure they’ll post something about shortly). I didn’t want to miss the chance to post something on February 29th! We’ve completed functional specifications for the Comments, [...]

Eprints Web 2.0 Pow-wow followup

Thursday’s Eprints Web 2.0 Pow-wow in London was a great opportunity to discuss the issues with the Southampton team and others working at the bleeding-edge of the Eprints coal-face. In the morning, discussion ranged far and wide around Web 2.0 and Social Networking, and we were grateful to Kevin for assuming the mantle of facilitator [...]