Has anyone ever tried using turnitin-style plagiarism detection services
in this context?
See http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/turnitinuk.php
Phil
Rachel Hill wrote:
> That is the problem alright. They will be different - two different
> platforms (Eprints and DSpace) are being used - never mind the
> variations in how individuals put the metadata in to them!
> It seems that it will be impossible to avoid some level of manual
> effort to make this work...
>
> Leslie Carr wrote:
>> I'm sure that the real gotcha is that they won't be exact duplicates.
>> That would be too easy :-)
>> --
>> Les
>>
>>
>> On 23 Jun 2008, at 14:20, David Kane wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rachel,
>>>
>>> RSS is good. In EPrints you can turn any search into an RSS feed.
>>> It's easy then to have a PHP script or similar consume that feed,
>>> cache it, and display it in the web page.
>>>
>>> Combining multiple feeds is a bit more of a problem. This could be
>>> achieved by using feedburner or Yahoo pipes. I am not sure if these
>>> de-dupe the feeds, but that is an enhancement that could be made to
>>> the PHP code that consumnes the feed and renders the HTML.
>>>
>>> I say PHP because that is what I used. You are welcome to use my
>>> code, if you like.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> David.
>>>
>>> 2008/6/23 Rachel Hill <[log in to unmask]
>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm trying to figure out the best way to solve the following
>>> problem of duplicate papers:
>>>
>>> A new research centre is affiliated with 2 universities. Some
>>> papers from the centre will be co-authored by both universities,
>>> some will be authored by just the one. Each university will have
>>> a copy of papers written by its authors in its institutional
>>> repository. Now the research centre will create a website
>>> containing a record of all its papers, and wants to pull all its
>>> papers from each IR and join them together into one publications
>>> list.
>>> Does anyone have advice on the best (and easiest) means of doing
>>> this, while automatically removing duplicates (where papers have
>>> been co-authored)? What method to use: OAI-PMH? other?? Has
>>> anyone had experience with this before?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions appreciated!
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Rachel Hill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Kane
>>> Systems Librarian
>>> Waterford Institute of Technology
>>> http://library.wit.ie/
>>> T: ++353.51302838
>>> M: ++353.876693212
>>
>
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