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  • Sakai Development: Post Two

    Sakai Development: Post Two

    Posted on 18 July 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    The virtual host is now operational, so it is time to start setting up the environment for installing the Sakai CLE (2.8.2) from source. Lots of fairly technical detail as to how I set up java, tomcat, mysql and so on. The full details are available on...

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  • Sakai Development: Post One

    Sakai Development: Post One

    Posted on 18 July 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    A short post in lieu of not yet having a development environment available. The full content is available on my personal blog.

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  • Sakai Development Diary – Prelude

    Sakai Development Diary – Prelude

    Posted on 18 July 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    My next major job will be to write an extension to the Sakai research environment software which enables the deposit of material from Sakai to some SWORD2 compliant repository. (SWORD2 is a protocol for the deposit of digital materials into repositories, so this is a reasonably sensible project to undertake.) My Sakai background is negligible, so I will [...]

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  • Bringing data into the open repository

    Bringing data into the open repository

    Posted on 17 July 2012 by angus.whyte | From DCC
    Research data and how repositories can better cope with it was a hot topic at OR2012 in Edinburgh last week. I believe research data has been rising up the Open Repositories conference agenda for a few years now. At this, my first OR conference, there ...

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  • Invitation to comment

    Invitation to comment

    Posted on 3 July 2012 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
    The Patients Participate! project has released two deliverables for open community review. The first is a guide to writing Lay Summaries, and forms part of the DCC series of How To guides, pitched at an intermediate level, offering practical advice. We...

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  • Reflections on data sharing

    Reflections on data sharing

    Posted on 3 July 2012 by Michael Day | From DCC
    In its outreach and training activities, the DCC has had a long-term interest in reaching new generations of research staff, including doctoral students and those classed as early career researchers. read more

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  • A Wellcome development?

    A Wellcome development?

    Posted on 29 June 2012 by graham.pryor | From DCC
    The Wellcome Trust has announced that it will be strengthening the manner in which it enforces its open access policy. With immediate effect, failure to comply with the policy, which since 2006 has required that all research papers funded by the Trust ...

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  • 6th Bloomsbury Conference

    6th Bloomsbury Conference

    Posted on 28 June 2012 by Monica Duke | From Patients Participate
    Tomorrow the Patients Participate! project will be speaking at the 6th Bloomsbury Conference which has the theme of Scholarly outreach, impact and outcomes. There is a wide-ranging programme from discussions of open access, persepectives on impact and ...

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  • RAIDmap: coming to a computer near you

    RAIDmap: coming to a computer near you

    Posted on 26 June 2012 by Alex Ball | From REDm-MED
    The wait is finally over! RAIDmap, the piece of software we have been developing in REDm-MED, is now available for early adoption from SourceForge. RAIDmap is an adaptation of the Compendium information mapping software, tailored for use as a data documentation tool. It uses the National Library of New Zealand’s Metadata Extractor to collect information [...]

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  • Data and the Web Manager

    Data and the Web Manager

    Posted on 21 June 2012 by Marieke Guy | From DCC
    At this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop, data emerged as one of the surprising key themes. Although Web managers are familiar with data (for example in the form of analytics and log data) the three days showed showed t...

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