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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Reports from JISC developer conference

Reports from the JISC Developer Happiness Days (London, February 9-13, 2009) are highlighting new repository technologies, e.g.:
  • Michelle Pauli, Cool code: EPrints export plug in allows preview magic, dev8d, February 13, 2009.

    ... Chris Gutteridge’s speedy work on JSON exports for the EPrints software should have a real impact on the ease of use of the popular EPrints service. Chris explains:

    “I have built an export plugin for the EPrints software which allows records and searches to be dumped as JSON. This will allow other Dev8D delegates to built new tools on top of this data.”

    JSON makes it much easier to use your data in mashups on third party sites. ...

  • Leslie Carr, Microsoft Office at #dev8D, RepositoryMan, February 13, 2009.
    ... [O]ne of the Fedora developers suggested that the repository could expose new "endpoints" (i.e. points of access) for the kinds of complex documents that were normally encountered as a take-it-or-leave-it package. Documents like Microsoft Word files, which are now stored as explicit bundles of text, media, metadata and relationships. ...