Sorry, Chris is not on the list - here is his response.
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> From: Christopher Gutteridge <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:05:46 +0100
> To: Hugh Glaser <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: Anna Clements <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]"
> <[log in to unmask]>, syscjg <[log in to unmask]>, sysdsc
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: who is looking at IRs
> 
> I can only speak for our school, not the whole university.
> 
> In ECS we have a publications database, which is broader than that as it
> includes things like slides from presentations. We also have a database
> of current and past research projects which contains data of varying
> quality. These are used to build the school website, and the sites for
> various research groups.
> 
> We currently use SQL to build the research group websites, but we are
> about to switch (as an experiment) to using SPARQL as the back-end for
> research group websites.
> 
> Examples of 2 quite different research groups using the same databases:
> http://www.isis.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/
> http://www.iam.ecs.soton.ac.uk/themes/Agent%20Based%20Computing
> 
> I know the university is working on a project lifecycle database, but I
> suspect that this will be used more for internal admin than for
> producing sharable data. I'd love it if it could produce some open
> linked data for the community, but university-level projects make course
> changes as quickly as oil tankers.
> 
> On 02/06/10 20:35, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>> The guys who run this can answer best, I am just a happy user
>> - ChrisG, want to comment?
>> 
>> 
>> On 02/06/2010 20:24, "Anna Clements"<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> 
>>    
>>> 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
>>>>>          
>>    
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
> 
> / Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
> / Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton,
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
> / Webmaster, Web Science Trust, http://www.webscience.org/
> 

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