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Fáilte gu Ghlaschu!

  The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris Football and digital preservation seem an unlikely combination but on May 15th Ed and I arrived to a slightly damp Glasgow celebrating en masse the end of the football season, to deliver our DPTP north of the border.  There, I [...]

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 [...]

Moving Home

It’s been quiet here recently. Partly because people have been busy with projects such as CLASM and ArchivePress, but also because we’ve been busy readying ourselves for a move. After nearly 40 years in the same purpose-built premises, we’re relocating to Senate House, the home of the University of London’s federal activity. Many staff members [...]

SNEEP 0.3.2 (now with automagic installer) + PICT (SNEEP evolves!)

SNEEP 0.3.2 The JISC funded SNEEP project (Social Networking Extensions for EPrints) – part of the original JISC rapid innovation programme – aimed to provide a set of social networking tools for EPrints repositories. It ran for 6 months and ended in May 2008. Since the rather low key publication of the resultant EPrints plugin [...]

Entertainment from seasons past

At this time of year (or any other) a bit of levity doesn’t go amiss. In the interests of saving paper, electrons and brain cells I’ve recycled some levity from the past rather than constructing something new. The image here links to a higher-resolution version of a page from ULCC’s newsletter in December 1983, suitable [...]