{"id":1621,"date":"2014-07-30T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:55:28","slug":"eprints-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2014\/07\/eprints-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"EPrints developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sketchy notes on this session: Les Carr updating us on developments in EPrints software \/ development<\/p>\n<p>What is EPrints for?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting researchers<\/li>\n<li>Supporting research data<\/li>\n<li>Supporting research outputs<\/li>\n<li>Supporting research outcomes<\/li>\n<li>Supporting research managers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, want repositories to take on a bigger agenda &#8211; publication, data, information, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this stripping EPrints back to its core data management engine &#8211; tuning it for speed, efficiency, scale and flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>EPrints4 is not a rewrite of the software, but making the core as generic as possible &#8211; so it can handle all kinds of content<\/p>\n<p>Improved integration with <a href=\"http:\/\/xapian.org\">Xapian<\/a> (for search)<\/p>\n<p>Improving efficiency of information architecture &#8211; db transactions, memcached, fine-grained ACLs &#8211; can support much bigger repositories.<\/p>\n<p>MVC approach<\/p>\n<p>Can be run as headless service, but comes with a UI<\/p>\n<p>Towards Repository &#8217;16 &#8211; OA Compliancy, capture projects\/funders data (working with Soton and Reading)<\/p>\n<p>Integrating with other services\/systems<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IRUS-UK (on Bazaar)<\/li>\n<li>Publications router<\/li>\n<li>ORCID<\/li>\n<li>RIOXX<\/li>\n<li>WoK\/Scopus imports<\/li>\n<li>OA end-to-end project (EPrints Services are partners)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Les says &#8220;EPrints moving towards being a de-factor CRIS-light systems&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Repositories are\/need to be collaboration between librarians and developers<\/p>\n<p>No release date for EPrints4 yet &#8211; but probably around a year away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketchy notes on this session: Les Carr updating us on developments in EPrints software \/ development What is EPrints for? Supporting researchers Supporting research data Supporting research outputs Supporting research outcomes Supporting research managers However, want repositories to take on a bigger agenda &#8211; publication, data, information, &#8230; To achieve this stripping EPrints back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rfringe14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}