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
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