EPrints-2 alpha-2 released (Stevan Harnad) ERCELAA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu 10 Jan 2002 14:27 UTC
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:33:15 +0000 From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK> Subject: [OAI-general] EPrints-2 Alpha-2 released (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:36:14 +0000 From: ePrints Support <support@eprints.org> To: eprints-announce@ecs.soton.ac.uk, eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk, eprints-underground@ecs.soton.ac.uk, OAI-general@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu Subject: [OAI-general] EPrints-2 Alpha-2 released EPRINTS-2-ALPHA-2 released (09/01/2002) EPrints is free software for creating large web-based archives of papers (or whatever you want) with the metadata stored in an SQL back end. EPrints v1 is in use by a number of sites (see http://www.eprints.org for a list). Using our own ideas and feedback from users we have created eprints-2. This is only an alpha release, so not all the features work yet (that would be beta), but the main parts of the system are complete. EPrints-2 new features: - multilanguage support (site in french & english if you wish), option to have multilingual metadata - eg. the title and abstract in english & french and presented in the language of the user viewing. - XML configuration files rather than ASCII - a bit harder to get started but ensures no ambiguity and lets you have non-ASCII characters. - OO design. Although the functions are not fixed in stone the system has been built to be strictly OO (as strict as PERL will let it be) and it will be possible to build your own scripts to process the database without having to start using SQL. - The phrase files used for internationalisation are also useful to customise the interface without having to hack the code. - Much of the website look and feel is done with style-sheets, again to avoid the need for hacking the code. - Support for other authentication methods eg. LDAP using 3rd party modules currently available. - Abstraction of the SQL. - configurable searches (what fields do you want to be offered as user search pages?) A couple of notable features which are not yet implemented: - alerts - users can configure a once-a-week (or whatever) search and be mailed if any new items appear in it each week. - OAI support. This is very important to us, but is not on the critical path to making the software work now. It will be added later. If you really can't wait, the software is available online from: http://www.eprints.org/files/eprints2/eprints2-alpha-2.tar.gz But you should be aware that it requires apache with some configuration options to run effiently + some other freely available software such as MySQL. Install info is included in the .tar.gz in the docs dir. I welcome and look forward to comments, bug- reports etc. The EPrints.org 2 server is being developed at the University of Southampton. Mostly by me, Christopher Gutteridge, with a bit of help from Mike Jewell. Christopher Gutteridge support@eprints.org ePrints Technical Support +44 23 8059 4833 _______________________________________________ OAI-general mailing list OAI-general@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/oai-general