SNEEP: Social Networking Extensions for EPrints (SNEEPflet)

Leaflet created to promote SNEEP plugins at poster/demo session at JISC Innovations Forum, Keele University, 2008

ArchivePress: Diamonds In The Rough

This paper considers the practical issues in capturing and preserving blog posts and comments. It introduces "ArchivePress", a new approach for institutions large or small that wish to archive blog content that leverages the native data structures and formats of blogs and the dynamic capabilities of associated newsfeeds and APIs, to create flexible, manageable, scoped archives of multiple blogs

A custom EPrints solution for SOAS Digital Archives

The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is undertaking a major digitisation programme for its rich and diverse archives of materials from Asia and Africa. In response to the tender by the Centre for Digital Africa, Asia and the Middle East (CeDAAME) at SOAS in 2009, the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) proposed and implemented an Open Source E-Prints-based solution for online open access to the digitised materials

ArchivePress: A Really Simple Solution to Archiving Blog Content

ArchivePress is a new technical solution for collecting and archiving content from blogs. Current solutions are commonly based on typical web archiving activities, whereby a crawler is configured to harvest a copy of the blog and return the copy to a web archive. This approach is perfectly acceptable if the requirement is that the site is presented as an integral whole. However, ArchivePress is based upon the premise that blogs are a distinct class of web-based resource, in which the post, not the page, is atomic, and certain properties, such as layouts and colours, are demonstrably superfluous for many (if not most) users. As a result, an approach that builds on the functionality provided by web feeds to capture only selected aspects of the blog offers more potential. This is particularly the case when institutions wish to develop collections of aggregated blog content from a range of different sources. The presentation will describe our research to develop such an approach, including work to define the significant properties of blogs, details of the technical development, and pilot collections against which the tool has been tested

Overlaying an Open Journals service onto an Institutional Repository at the School of Advanced Study, University of London

A poster for Open Repositories 2012 describing and illustrating the JISC-funded SAS OJS project and the resulting Open Journals service for the School of Advanced Study

Archiving scientific blogs with ArchivePress

A poster describing the ArchivePress blog archiving approach and project, presented at the International Digital Curation Conference, London, December 2009

Transcribe Bentham: la transcription distribuée et collaborative

A short overview of the Transcribe Bentham project delivered to the Conférence Internationale Supérieure d’Archivistique (CISA) , organised by the Direction générale des patrimoines du Ministère de la culture et de la communication français and held at the National Archives, Paris

Putting the e in library

Editorial for UKSG, 25th July 2014, discussing issues faced by libraries in managing the transition from print to e-books

Beyond SNEEP: Ideas for Creative Repository Management

This is an expanded and updated version of a presentation given to the SHERPA-LEAP consortium of University of London repository managers in 2009. The presentation gives examples of a range of user-oriented tools and techniques available to repository managers to enhance the user experience of the repository interface. Approaches illustrated include: using dynamic news feeds from repositories to integrate with other web applications; adding personalisation features such as profile pages, commenting and tagging; using statistics packages; exploting embedded semantic metadata; enhancing abstract pages; and using a newly-developed text-mining plugin