This week in meprints we’ve been looking at a nice generic way to make our widgets embedable into users websites or igoogle Marcus is planning to cook up some javascript which transcludes widgets from a users public profile…
having seen Daves chat about blogs this week i thought id include a picture to brighten the place up a bit. It might not get the pulses racing but its probably worth 1000 words.
this is Marcus
At the repofringe09 this year as well as some very good talks there was a developer challenge. The challenge was to give a user something that would benefit them using only theyre name and email address. For the challenge i knocked up a profile page combining information from eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk with information from the ecs RDF system. page (users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pm5/repofringe) included: picture automatically generated bio, a selection of statistics and graphs about user deposits, a graph of co authors, a keywords tag cloud, graphical-paper-mashup-slideshow-thing, google maps of where the user had presented, an automatically generated working bio (from the RDF)Â and the persons “Mention-it” search (props to Tim Donohue http://code.google.com/p/mention-it/)
The entry one and it was only as i was presenting it i realised “most of this would make a really good set of widgets for meprints”. This confirms our suspicions about users having a central focal point in the repository being attractive and gave me some great ideas for widgets.