From the monthly archives: May 2009

Open Repositories 2009

On May 26, 2009 By

I attended Open Repositories 2009 Conference this past week.  Overall it was a very informative conference on the open source repository platforms (Fedora, dSpace, ePrints, Zentity), current projects and developments using these platforms, and future directions of repositories.  Below are some relevant notes from the conference.

Repository Workflow

There were a few presentations that discussed [...]

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“Wow! This job sure keeps us hopping!”

On May 13, 2009 By

There are many steps involved in creating and publishing a new digital collection — it’s truly a team effort that requires a lot of hard work and coordination of efforts from people across the libraries, with many different skill sets, working in many different departments, in buildings across Duke’s campus.  People who aren’t [...]

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Answering the important questions.

On May 5, 2009 By

Recently we implemented Google Analytics to track usage of our digital collections.  Sean has already contributed several great posts about our digital collections use statistics, but one thing I find particularly interesting (and amusing) is that Google Analytics allows us to see the types of keywords our users are entering into Google, Yahoo, [...]

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