Greek case studies for cooperation with Europeana

During this session participants will have a chance to listen about experience of GreekAggreagator

BlogForever: D2.5 Weblog Spam Filtering Report and Associated Methodology

This report is written as a first attempt to define the BlogForever spam detection strategy. It comprises a survey of weblog spam technology and approaches to their detection. While the report was written to help identify possible approaches to spam detection as a component within the BlogForver software, the discussion has been extended to include observations related to the historical, social and practical value of spam, and proposals of other ways of dealing with spam within the repository without necessarily removing them. It contains a general overview of spam types, ready-made anti-spam APIs available for weblogs, possible methods that have been suggested for preventing the introduction of spam into a blog, and research related to spam focusing on those that appear in the weblog context, concluding in a proposal for a spam detection workflow that might form the basis for the spam detection component of the BlogForever software

BlogForever: D3.1 Preservation Strategy Report

This report describes preservation planning approaches and strategies recommended by the BlogForever project as a core component of a weblog repository design. More specifically, we start by discussing why we would want to preserve weblogs in the first place and what it is exactly that we are trying to preserve. We further present a review of past and present work and highlight why current practices in web archiving do not address the needs of weblog preservation adequately. We make three distinctive contributions in this volume: a) we propose transferable practical workflows for applying a combination of established metadata and repository standards in developing a weblog repository, b) we provide an automated approach to identifying significant properties of weblog content that uses the notion of communities and how this affects previous strategies, c) we propose a sustainability plan that draws upon community knowledge through innovative repository design

Psepheda - Ψηφίδα : DSpace at University of Macedonia Library & Information Centre

Our DSpace installation addresses two needs for the time being; that of a digital library and that of an Institutional Repository, with the intention of digitizing and hosting the University’s archive. Our digital library will include two digitized Greek journals of scientific content, the digital files of South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics , our Library’s newsletters as well as digitized textbooks accessible only by the blind students of our University. Our IR is still under way as we expect the support of our University Administration in order to contact the academic community and convince them to self-archive. We have included, however, PhD theses for which we demand a license to be signed by the authors. Unlicensed content is also uploaded, but is treated differently. The digital files are uploaded in pdf and ps format. Our needs demanded translation of the user interface into Greek, which we deposited to the DSpace wiki . We also created a new submission form for dissertations which required the addition of metadata fields to the Dublin Core registry. In addition, minor modifications were made to the web interface in order to meet our users’ needs. System authentication is implemented using IP address access lists whereas archive data and database integrity is ensured by redundant storage disks and regular backups