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December 31, 2004 No Comments
Eprints 2.3.7 released
Eprints 2.3.7 released: “Eprints, the open-source software for open-access, OAI-compliant archives, has released version 2.3.7. The new version makes better use of style sheets (see the demo) and adds an XSLT style sheet to make the OAI interface human-readable through a browser (see the example). More from today’s announcement: ‘This release adds the option to make required file formats depend on the type of eprint, rather than have one setting for the entire archive. This means that in one archive an eprint about a book may not require any formats at all, one about a presentation may require powerpoint, and a normal article require PDF. Version 2.3.0 to 2.3.6 of EPrints required the ‘libapreq’ library, this library proved difficult for some users to install, so in response to our users comments, from 2.3.7 is no longer used.’”
(Via Open Access News.)
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great news!
December 23, 2004 No Comments
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:49:03 GMT
RSS Heaven(s) Crossed With Geographical Meta Tags.
I can't remember who was looking for this, but Syndic8 shows a scraped RSS feed for the excellent Astronomy Picture of the Day. Thanks to Perceive Designs (aka Eric Vitiello Jr.) for providing it, along with a bunch of weather feeds (including Chicago)! (Note: I'm getting an “channeltitle” error when I try to subscribe to the Chicago feed in Radio's aggregator. Darn.)
Visiting their site also produced a link to the GeoURL ICBM Address Server, a site I hadn't seen before.
“GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you.”
Here's what you do:
- Add meta tags
Add the following meta tags to the<head>section of your web page:
<meta name="ICBM" content="COORDINATES">
<meta name="DC.title" content="THE NAME OF YOUR SITE">Use the helper to generate your tags if you are in the US.
Coordinates are in the form of a latitude and longitude, separated by a comma, for example:47.98481,-71.42124. Western hemisphere longitudes and Southern hemisphere latitudes are negative.
We'll also index Geo Tags-style “geo.position” meta tag as per their documentation
- Tell the GeoURL server your page needs to be indexed.
Use the ping form to tell us that your page has been updated.
- Tell others
ome more useful as the database grows in size. Tell others about GeoURL by linking to us.
Once you are in the database, you can add a link to show your neighbors:
http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://my.web.site/blog/
So, I'm telling others, and I'm going to try adding the meta tags to my own site. I don't know if this attempt will go anywhere, but it might be an interesting way to identify Prairie Bloggers and other geographically-joined groups somewhere down the road.
ok, this is something i need to do sometime, butnot right now
December 30, 2002 Comments Off
Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:59:51 GMT
One more reason to be your own ISP.
In the ultimate world of ends (which the end-to-end Net continues fundamentally to be), ISPs become nothing more than storage and pipes. Stupid things, as David Isenberg correctly says.
Because if they're not stupid, they get all smart like Verio and start shutting down whole sites and communities.
Thanks to Rhizome for the link. And to the Reverse Cowgirl for turning us on to Rhizome.
now, is the time to rail aainst censorship to your favorite representative. dmca has gone on long enough, more to come
December 29, 2002 Comments Off