Hi Hugh -so is your Institution using a CRIS then - sounds like it?
Anna
Anna Clements
Business Improvements
University of St Andrews
At Andrews, Fife,KY16 9AL
On 2 Jun 2010, at 17:27, "Hugh Glaser" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I was waiting for your response Les, but I feel it is rather shy in
> capturing the reality!
> More than 10 years ago now, maybe even 15, I started using this
> inclusion
> facility to embed my publication list in my home page, as did many
> of our
> colleagues.
> And then, also many years ago, I stopped bothering to do that, as
> the pages
> the School was offering for me by embedding my publication data in the
> official profile pages was far superior to anything I could make
> myself.
> And of course kept up to date, which is always another problem with
> personal
> pages.
>
> This is the stunning reality of an effective repository, properly
> used by
> (or preferably well-integrated with) the rest of the organisation's IT
> systems.
>
> <Les, sysprogs, do I get my pint in the bar on Friday now?>
>
> There is one issue, however, that was important for this, that seems
> to be
> part of the discussion.
> The repository allowed records that were metadata only.
> My publication page needs to be comprehensive, and so must have
> historical
> data. It therefore has publication metadata for stuff that was never
> in
> electronic form, or has got lost, or would just be too time-
> consuming to
> provide, or whatever.
> If I had been required to archive, then I would not have simply
> committed to
> using the repository as my publication database, and would probably
> still be
> maintaining my own (broken) publication list in html.
>
> Cheers
> Hugh
>
> On 02/06/2010 08:40, "Les Carr" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> On 1 Jun 2010, at 18:57, Paolo Mangiafico wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone had success with embedding feeds from their IR directly
>>> into
>>> researcher profile pages or relevant department or institute web
>>> sites?
>>
>> Each EPrints view (think "collection") can be configured to produce
>> cached
>> html fragments for inclusion in a profile page by a third party
>> service.
>>
>> For example, my official school profile page on the official school
>> portal
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/lac
>>
>> has a subpage devoted to publications:
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/lac/publications
>>
>> which obtains its data from the repository:
>> http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/person/60.include
>>
>> The HTML fragment can be CSS'ed into whatever style the portal wants.
>> --
>> Les
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