EPrint Services is offering an Apple iPhone and iPods as a prizes for new EPrints import/export plugins. EPrints Services is the repository development and hosting company formed to fund the continued development of EPrints. |
Call for PluginsDevelopers are warmly invited to create import and export plugins for the EPrints repository platform. EPrints is a mature repository platform that has a particular emphasis on interoperability. EPrints repositories operate in complex information environments consisting of mobile devices, user desktop applications, library environments, institutional databases and Internet services. EPrints is looking to increase its range of interoperability capabilities with more community-developed plugins. EPrints Services is offering prizes for the best plugins submitted to the EPrints open source package repository by January 31st 2008. EPrints Services is the repository hosting company that funds EPrints development.
You are invited to develop an import or export plugin. You don't need to be an established EPrints developer to participate, anyone with some basic Perl programming skills can join in. To get started download an EPrints LiveCD, which boots up a running EPrints repository with training materials. Support can be obtained through the EP-Tech mailing list, the EPrints wiki and the EPrints website. EPrints has a growing list of plugins that can handle requirements as diverse as importing publications from PubMed or creating mashups using Google Maps. EPrints supports insitutional repositories, but it is also suitable for individual student projects and research environments, as its import and export features allow existing digital collections to be used and reused in innovative ways. For further information about this Call for Plugins, please see the Further Information Wiki page or email lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Important Links
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