Archive for April, 2009

MEPrints the begining

Monday, April 20th, 2009

All About MEPrints is a JISC rapid inovvations project to build a profile system for the EPrints software. The aim is that a user in the repository will have a page which promotes their identity within the repository. It is hoped this will improve user <-> repository relations and also provide useful information for user <-> user interactions.

We have begun by examining the usecases for information from the eprints services development requests and feedback about the profile system from language box (feedback was attained at user workshops).

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MEPrints requirements

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Following the last blog we concluded that MEPrints needs to:

be a plugin system for eprints.

the Profile will be a plugin and then each element of it will be a Plugin called a widget (a la igoogle )

The Profile frame work should have an inwards facing “Home page” for the user which has their information and statistics available. The user controls what is displayed in their home page.

The Profile framework should also include and outward facing “Profile page” the contents of which is controlled by the repository administrator. The profile page is accessible to the internet in the same way as a an eprint in the archive.

the work for the week is:

  • build the Profile framework for dynamically loading plugins
  • make the default widgets (personal picture, user details, user tools)

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