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OR2010 Madrid

Aug 02, 2010 by Louise Harrington

The 5th International Conference on Open Repositories was recently held in Madrid this year, and as part of our dissemination programme, the I-WIRE team (Scott, myself, Repository Manager Tracey and Technical Lead Jim) attended. We contributed a poster on ‘Integrating the Institutional Repository with a Portal Environment’, and Scott and Jim gave a presentation on the technical challenge of building a portlet version of the institutional repository ORCA. We were pleased with the reception of both, and the team made valuable contacts with other developers and projects. We all very much enjoyed Madrid – a beautiful city which we wished we could have explored more of (although we did make it to the Prado and to the Bernabeu stadium on the night of the World Cup semi-final!)

 

The conference was of value to us as a team, as what attending the conference, listening to the papers, and reading the posters brought home to us is that the objective of the I-WIRE Project is unprecedented and specific. Ideas and concepts that repository managers and developers are currently preoccupied with, and the most obvious buzzwords, were: impact, co-operation, collaboration, access, preservation, open access, research outputs, engagement, performance measurement, mandates (are they necessary?), research information systems, and data management systems.

 

In other I-WIRE news: we are entering a busy phase of our project, with various show and tells of the portlet scheduled for colleagues and for academic schools during August. We are starting work on our evaluation activities, and are considering attendance at the Repository Fringe event in Edinburgh.

Posted by Louise Harrington @ 03:34 PM BST [ Comments [0] ] Permalink

MWE Integration

Oct 19, 2009 by Tracey Andrews

One crucial issue that has reared its head is how the interface between EPrints and the MWE will work. Part of the I-WIRE concept and brief is to establish a direct, real-time link between the MWE research portal and EPrints, but when Jim recently went to a developer's meeting at Southampton University, he discovered that EPrints does not at present have the functionality to interface with the planned research portal. This is obviously a concern as integration with the MWE is an essential feature of this project! Jim is currently evaluating our options, and he aims to present a recommended solution at the next Project Management Group meeting on 11th November.

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