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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