Friday 27 August 2010

Mini update and project team picture

The last few weeks have been busy with meetings and calls - with Symplectic, Mendeley, the DSpace at Cambridge team, the REF project at Cambridge, JISC, and so on. We're fleshing out the details of the project a little more, and identifying the issues which are likely to become big topics of discussion later on - the biggest of these is authentication and authorisation, as we bridge the world of modern web systems and institutional identity. (This connects up to SWORD - and what SWORD2 will be like. We imagine using mostly SWORD1.3, but contributing suggestions for SWORD2 would be a useful contribution.)


You can now see our project's information on the JISC programme information site.  

I'll be at Science Online London next Friday and Saturday, so if you'd like to learn more about the project or have any questions, find me there!


Whilst visiting Symplectic and Mendeley this week we took pictures of the teams - so you can see we all exist, at least in a slightly blurry way :)

Wednesday 11 August 2010

Mendeley API launched

Mendeley have opened their API for developers!

Read all about it here, discuss with others here.

This is exciting news for our project, as well as for others interested in building upon or around Mendeley.

Tuesday 3 August 2010

IR, CRIS, ...

There's an interesting post over on the SONEX blog about institutional repositories and current research information systems, or CRISs. CRISes? Anyway:  read it here.