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  • Sakai Development: Post Four

    Sakai Development: Post Four

    Posted on 7 August 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    In which I finally get the test Sakai installation working, and learn about some apache modules which I have not used before which are needed to work around the problems. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Ariadne Issue 69 Now Available

    Ariadne Issue 69 Now Available

    Posted on 3 August 2012 by Alex Ball | News
    Ariadne Issue 69 has been published recently with its usual mix of features both technical and more wide-ranging together with event reports and a raft of reviews on recent publications. This issue includes a contribution from Alex Ball entitled The Second British Library DataCite Workshop...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Three

    Sakai Development: Post Three

    Posted on 1 August 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    In which I work my way through the compilation of Sakai several times, ending up with a limited amount of success and experience a fair amount of frustration. This is where things start to get quite technical. The full post is on my personal blog here....

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  • Research data management training take 2

    Research data management training take 2

    Posted on 24 July 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    On Thursday 28 June, Cathy and I ran the latest of our postgraduate workshops on research data management. The session was structured similarly to our last workshop, though without the extended hands-on section on data management planning. The loss of this section was down to time pressures (we had an hour less this time). We started by [...]

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  • Demystifying research data

    Demystifying research data

    Posted on 20 July 2012 by Digital Curation Centre blogs | From DCC
    Earlier this week, I attended a workshop entitled 'Demystifying research data: don't be scared, be prepared', an event that was organised by the JIBS User Group and RLUK (Research Libraries UK), and held at the Brunei Gallery, SO...

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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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  • Metadata for Data Citation and Discovery

    Metadata for Data Citation and Discovery

    Posted on 6 July 2012 by Alex Ball | Papers and Talks
    Ball, A., 2012. Metadata for Data Citation and Discovery. At: Describe, Disseminate, Discover: Metadata for Effective Data Citation, 2012-07-05 - 2012-07-05, London.

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