---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joss Winn <jw...@lincoln.ac.uk> List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:24 AM Subject: Facebook, Collections, SWORD and SNEEP To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- jiscmail.ac.uk
Hello everyone, I posted this to the JISC Start up and Enhancement (SUE) mailing list yesterday and it has been suggested that I post it here, too. I just wanted to let people know that the University of Lincoln's JISC-funded LIROLEM project <http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/wiki/Institutional_Repository> has implemented the SNEEP project <http://sneep.ulcc.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page> plugins on our IR. We've still got some CSS changes to make and debug some Internet Explorer issues, but for the most part, it's working. Thank you SNEEP. e.g. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/1543/ Notice the 'Show Comments/Notes/Tags' links at the bottom of the page. That test page also shows the tabbed abstract pages that we're using across the IR to support image, video and audio previewing. EPrints Services maintain our IR, hosted at the University of Lincoln, and have done all of the customisation work under our JISC SUE project contract. Thank you, JISC and EPrints Services. Special thanks to Seb at Eprints Services, who has been the principal developer. He is also working on the EdShare project <http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/> which shares some of this functionality. Seb has also been working on the SNEEP plugins to ensure they work over SSL, which they now do and will feedback any changes made for our IR to the SNEEP project and wider community. The multimedia preview (including transcoding) support which you'll see on that Abstract page, will also be released to the community, probably when the EdShare project is complete. One of the objectives of the LIROLEM project (2007-8) was to provide better support for teaching and learning materials in repositories. Also, note the 'Add to Collection' button. We have implemented a 'collection basket' feature, similar to an e-commerce site, where users can add EPrints to their collection as they browse and download them as a single zipped file at the end of their visit (or export the metadata in various formats). You need to register as a user to do this. For the user depositing with us, we also have auto-completion for keywords/tags, which should help ensure better consistency across our keywords. If you've used a WordPress blog, it works the same way: you just type, select the suggested keyword if desired and separate multiple keywords with a comma. We've also got basic tag cloud functionality: http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/view/year/2008.keywords.html Further work needs to be done with this to make it more delicious-like, but it's better than the massive single list of keywords we were rapidly accumulating previously. With all of this, we feel we have a more versatile IR application, that offers what is now common functionality found on other modern web sites. Of course, IR users are largely landing on and leaving from the Abstract pages and it will take time and effort to encourage users to browse, comment, tag, preview, collect and download multiple items, but the functionality is in place for this. Finally, I've been playing around with SWORD and the Facebook app that was recently released. I've blogged about it here: http://bit.ly/uHX I welcome comments and offers of advice on how the Facebook plugin could be used more productively. Thank you, Joss -- Technology Officer Centre for Educational Research and Development University of Lincoln Brayford Pool Lincoln LN67TS UK T: +44-1522-886759 http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/blogs/joss