Tag Archives: social networking

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 [...]

SNEEP: Comments plugin update

An alpha download for SNEEP.comment is available on the SNEEP test Eprints repository: http://sneep.ulcc.ac.uk/eprints/2/ This gives an idea of how the comments will work in conjunction with an EPrint abstract. It allows simple non threaded comments which can be displayed, added or updated within an abstract (or other page). And now that’s out of the [...]

SNEEP: Tags plugin

As the SNEEP project continues to take form I have begun work on the tagging component. I will avoid the various arguments about the best way to scope tags (repo based vs third party). The nature of the SNEEP project suggests that developing tags as a repository based plugin is the way to go. In [...]

EPrints Web 2.0 Pow-wow

Following discussions on EP-tech and at last week’s JISC Repositories Programme meeting in Bristol, ULCC and Southampton University have organised an informal seminar in London on Thursday December 13th to discuss Eprints and Web 2.0. The conversation is likely to be developer-led, but we welcome participation by anyone with an interest in the field. The [...]