Monthly Archives: January 2008

A beginner's guide to metadata

For those who may not yet have seen the email, the Repositories Support Project is holding an event at the University of Wolverhampton,  focused on the ever thorny issue of metadata within institutional repositories.  Wolverhampton’s repository, WIRE, is an Open Repository service, so this will be an excellent opportunity to ask the Wolverhampton team all… Read more »

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Our monthly task list explained

Halfway through January, a good time to cast a more general eye over what we’re doing at the moment and perhaps shed some light on what it is we get up to in the daylight hours. Each month we create a task list, broken down into roughly 4 areas: new repositories, major projects, small projects,… Read more »

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Search? Sorted.

              As of only a few minutes ago, it is now possible to sort your search results on Open Repository in the same manner as you can with the browse options. That is to say, by Relevance, Title, by Submission Date and by Issue Date. Results can be ordered… Read more »

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Foxy

The nice people at FoxLand recently built us a rather lovely little Flash introduction to OR.  

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Really Simple Slip-up

It has been drawn to our attention that there have been problems with the RSS feeds on OR. Specifically that they’re working backwards. Or in other words, the earliest submitted items are appearing first.  But no more, it’s been fixed. A simple change has been made to the configuration file to draw the correct ordering…. Read more »

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Welcome the newbies

Some time ago, when we asked our customers what they wanted to know more of about the Open Repository service, one of the responses was to get more information on new customers and pilots. So, firstly, welcome to the Environmental Cancer Risk, Nutrition and Individual Susceptibility Network, based in Poland, Leeds Metropolitan University, the Health… Read more »

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