Category Archives: Hacks

ePub downloads from EPrints

By Joss Winn | Published: February 25, 2010
I’m at JISC’s #dev8D conference. There’s no end of developer challenges but I’m not a developer. Still, here’s an idea that maybe someone will pick up and run with: The use of eBook readers is on the rise. Anyone with an iPhone, Android phone, as well as Kindles and Sony Readers, has an eBook reader. Institutional Repositories [...]
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Displaying a dynamic publications list from a repository on a staff profile page

By Joss Winn | Published: February 4, 2010
I repeat this to people all the time. If I write it down here, then I only have to share a link RSS feeds are a very popular way of syndicating content from one source website to another subscribing website. Some university websites, such as the Institutional Repository or University blogs, produce RSS feeds but [...]
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Feeding WordPress with EPrints: A Social Repo?

By Joss Winn | Published: February 2, 2010
I’ve just knocked up a ‘Social Repo‘ site and would be keen to get some feedback on the general idea. It’s a WordPress site in microblog mode driven by feeds from our repo via the FeedWordPress plugin. Just an experiment in automating something similar to our Post2Blog plugin. As a way of making EPrints content more ’social’, [...]
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OPACPress: Our Talis Incubator proposal

By Joss Winn | Published: January 26, 2010
Yesterday, I submitted a proposal to Talis under their Incubator fund. If successful, I would have the pleasure of working with Paul Stainthorp, E-Resources Librarian at the University of Lincoln, and Casey Bisson,  Information Architect at Plymouth State University. The bid is to develop an idea which I’ve posted about before, based on Casey’s work on [...]
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