Archives for ptsefton.com
Designing a metadata ecosystem for language research based on Research Object Crate (RO-Crate)
HASS RDC Technical Advisory Group Meeting LDaCA & ATAP Intro
Infrastructure for Multilingual Text Analysis
Towards a (technical architecture for a) HASS Research Data Commons for language and text analysis
FIIR Data Management; Findable Inaccessible Interoperable and Reusable?
Arkisto: a repository based platform for managing all kinds of research data
Research Object Crate (RO-Crate) Update
Infrastructure and what do we really want for DMPs
What did you do in the lockdowns PT? Part 1 - Music Videos
FAIR Data Management; It's a lifestyle not a lifecycle
Research Data Management looking outward from IT
An open, composable standards–based research eResearch platform: Arkisto
eResearch Australasia 2019 trip report
FAIR Simple Scalable Static Research Data Repository
DataCrate - a progress report on packaging research data for distribution via your repository
Trip Report - Open Repositories 2019 - Peter Sefton
DataCrate: a method of packaging, distributing, displaying and archiving Research Objects
Trip Report (with bonus opinions) - Open Repositories 2018, Bozeman Montana, USA
Open Repositories 2018 Presentation: ReDBox 2.0 / Provisioner
DataCrate - a progress report on creating a data packaging format for research data
DataCrate Formalising ways of packaging research data for re-use and dissemination
Principles for eResearch Systems Development and Selection
Announcing my engagement (how to track who you're talking to)
Pick, Pack, Publish: Cr8it and Of The Web
Open Repositories 2016: Demo: A repository before breakfast
Scratching an itch: my software for formating song-sheets into, *gasp* PDF!
Supporting ProseMirror inline HTML editor
Trip report: open repositories 2015, Indy
This site is going to change! Again!
Implementing ORCID and other linked-data metadata in repositories
A quick open letter to eResearch@UTS
Digital Object Pattern (DOP) vs chucking files in a database, approaches to repository design
Trip report: Peter Sefton @ Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland
Elitist geeks considered hurtful (sic)
Introducing next year's model, the data-crate; applied standards for data-set packaging
Questions for the Australian (library) Repository Community
Round table on vocabularies for describing research data: where's my semantic web?
Trip report: Open Repositories 2013
Another student project – crossing the curation boundary
HTML Slide presentations, students to the rescue
Running an Open Source project from a university dev team
Repositories! (What are they good for?)
CAIRSS – CAUL Australasian Institutional Repository Support Service
New Avatars of the Book in Digital Culture
Tip: Arrange dock icons by shape, colour to reduce seek-time
NeCTAR Über Dojo, Reproducible Research (UWS eResearch team in Cloud Land II)
Sliding towards declarative Scholarly HTML
Virtual Infrastructure and Research Support: Fostering collaboration across institutions
Open Repositories Developer Challenge. DRAFT manifesto v0.1
How to write and format a technical procedure
Reading in the new Word? Really?
Research Data Australia down to Earth
File wrangling for researchers / Feral-data capture
An Australian Research Data Repository
WordDown: Word to HTML5 conversion tool
Scholarly HTML5: experimenting on myself with microdata and Schema.org vocabs
Template design issues for word processors and (possible future) EPUB export
The repository is watching: automated harvesting from replicated filesystems
The end of files might be inconvenient for scholarship
Real life scenarios for creating and disseminating linked-data publications
Making EPUB from WordPress (and other) web collections
Anthologize: a WordPress based collection tool
WordPress [and the jiscPUB project]
How to add EPUB support to EPrints
Scholarly HTML website up at http://scholarlyhtml.org
Introducing Epub2Html - adding a plain HTML view to an EPUB
Some questions about EPUB, WordPress, tools
Metadata in word processing monographs
EPub for word processing users
Scholarly HTML: Fraglets of progress
Scholarly HTML: new approaches to authoring Scientific Papers
Beyond the PDF: Some ideas for document formats and authoring tools
Hacking towards Scholarly HTML
Another look at desktop repositories
Beyond the PDF workshop trip report
Beyond the PDF proposed session : Bring the web to the researcher : Mainly on authoring tools
Before Beyond the PDF: Authoring tools for document semantics
Towards Beyond The PDF - a summary of work we've been doing
Like a version? No thanks, I'll have a revision.
I'm not going fundamentalist on you, but let's look at the fundamentals of Open Courseware licensing
EPub as a way of packaging scholarly resources?
My fave two reasons not to release OpenCourseware
ICE to DocBook? Yes, but I wouldn't bother.
The next wave in scholarly word processors?
Open Repositories 2010 - Learning and Culture
AWE - Presentation for Open Repositories 2010
Names (but not IDs) for Name Authority Services
Cheap laugh #1. Suggest opening up courseware just a little.
ICE and word processor / HTML interop, the ugly, uglier, ugliest
ICE and word processor / HTML interop, the ugly, uglier, ugliest
Repositories post 2010: embracing heterogeneity in AWE, the Academic Working Environment
Making things happen to the book
Publishers, Authors, what's stopping you all from just using HTML
More details on a metdata store for data in/alongside VITAL
ANDS metadata stores: Describing metadata collections in VITAL
ANDS Metadata Stores: Integrating VITAL with the NLA's Party Infrastructure Project
ANDS Metadata store: starting point
New Project: Metadata for data collections
Bye Bye Word 2007 Custom XML ?
Promising developments in the Australian Access Federation
Showing off presentation-to-html-to-blog using The Fascinator
Wave as a scholarly document editor: not promising at this stage
Boundaryless eResearch: Use Linked Open Data
Second post powered by The Fascinator, with pictures
A bit more on Wave as a Scholarly HTML editor
Some thoughts for our BoF session on boundaryless eResearch for #eraust09
Wave as a Scholarly HTML editor
ICE for theses (ThesICE) , where we are we up to?
Article of the future? Let's talk about scholarly communications.
More progress on exploded PowerPoints in a desktop repository
I'm beginning to hate the word 'repository'
ADFI collaboration and documentation tools
Wanted: someone to actively sell open repository solutions in Australia
Very Early Career Researchers (Engineering)
eResearch happiness in Australia?
Desktop Repositories: Smashing up PowerPoint
Trip report: visit to Microsoft
eResearch at ADFI as summary and potential projects
Open Repositories 2009 trip report
Stop saying 'Protect our IP' in educational contexts?
Three big hairy audacious goals for an open USQ
Journal 2.0: Embedding semantics in documents
Scholarly HTML: Simple, rational modern citations using links
Some ideas for rapid innovation projects: jiscri
Trip report: Intersect and University of Sydney
More on Microsoft Collaboration and word processor interop
More on Microsoft Word and non-interoperable standards compliance
The Desktop Fascinator AKA #DTeRrev
Developer happiness and associated meetings
The path to developer happiness: Unit testing in Python & XSLT
The path to developer happiness: Beyond PDF
Still no sympathy for IBM Lotus Symphony
OpenOffice.org is bad for the planet
Potential projects: #2 Integrating ICE with the Open Journal Systems
Potential projects: #1 A general purpose document annotation system
Scholarly Publishing using the Integrated Content Environment
More thoughts on thesis embargoes
Embargoes on bits of theses: skating on thin ICE?
Towards (Australian) repository interoperability using OAI-PMH
What the OAI-ORE protocol can do for you
Embedding XML in word processing documents (if you really must)
More ideas about online and offline word processor integration - is anybody listening?
More thoughts on an application to find structure in word processing documents
A courseware authoring dashboard using Schematron
Compound documents in ICE and beyond; referencing parts of things
Study shows real-world ODF/OOXML interoperability is not great
Another look at the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007
Some architectural changes to ICE
Tim McCallum shows off Sun of Fedora
An ICE like ODF based web publishing system
Adventures in Geocoding part 2: Embedding data points in documents
More on negative click or net benefit repositories
Deflation in repository clicks
Why wasn't I using styles in diagrams?
Please comment on this abstract
Claims about ODF support are typically meaningless
Some comments on OOXML, ODF and Microsoft Word
Some comments on the NLM XML plugin for Word 2007
Some thoughts on vendor lock-in, from the domestic to the institutional (is Apple Mac OS X evil?)
Google claims to support ODF over OOXML but Google Docs has awful ODF support
Anyone know about research into what authoring tools academics use?
OpenDocument Format support not as great as the cheer squad keep saying
XHTML Challenge: Mozilla Seamonkey Composer is not suitable for writing academic papers
Cyclone Peter Murray-Rust moves away from Toowoomba. Cleanup continues.
This site is now Zotero friendly, courtesy of the unAPI plugin for WordPress
Mini websites of supporting material for scholarly articles
Mini websites of supporting material for scholarly articles
IBM Lotus Symphony word processor does not have broken HTML export like all the others!
ICE Mashups, part one, take two
New job: Manager Software Research and Development, in the Learning Futures Innovation Institute
Hooking up authoring processes and tools to institutional repositories
This website is about to change
If you're in Melbourne come and learn about ICE on Tuesday November 27th
Python templates considered mostly harmless
More on shared notebook projects
Open Notebook Science and Not-so-open Notebook Science
Another rant about how XML underneath your word processor is not enough
Another defensive (yet not huffy) post about ICE
Zotero bibliographic plugin released for Word and OpenOffice.org Writer
iWork Pages - Keeping the words IN
Why not HTML for online journals? People need the right tools.
What I said in April about interoperability standards in educational ICT
USQ joins the Open Courseware movement
Identifiers should not contain semantics - except when they should
Sun ODF converter for MS Word - version 1 review
Challenge: Produce XHTML and print from Google Docs
My impressions of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations conference series
Challenge: Produce XHTML and print from a Writer document
Challenge: Produce XHTML and print from a Word document
A quick test to see how an HTML editor behaves with lists, using FCKeditor
OpenDocument format is not THAT widely supported no matter what Wikipedia says on any given day
Bike lighting: two orders of magnitude
Batch tools for repository migration: the RUBRIC solution
Zotero provides cross-platform bibliography solution for authors. Sort of.
Submitting a paper to a conference using ICE
Unit testing for VBA in 2 minutes
RDF appears on my short-range radar
A first try of Zotero's Word integration for citations and bibliographies
Why not use styles for blogging in Word 2007 and really leap the chasm
ODF plugin for Word is available
Balanced review of word processors? I don't think so.
Which came first? The chooks (obviously)
Curation boundary: the line between collaboration and preservation
Matt Zumwalt showed some great work on XForms and Fedora at OR07
Rick Jelliffe looks at Open Office XML formats on Wikipedia
Putting web content into a Fedora repository via IMS packages
Adventures in self preservation: Converting legacy styles to ICE styles
How to wash yourself with less than 10 litres of water
Unfinished: Online authoring using ICE Styles
Unfinished: Editing MODS metadata using XForms
Adventures in self preservation: Use tables!
See you at Open Repositories 2007
Adventures in self preservation: Part 1 getting stuff off the Zip disc
Want a longer tongue? Try ICE!
ICE-RS: Virtual blog at http://del.icio.us/icers
Does a text citation make a good persistent identifier?
Administration overheads for repository maintainers: remapping old names
A first look at the ODF Add-in for Word 2003
I told you the lists in OpenOffice.org Writer were wacky!
New Weblog plugin for OpenOffice.org Writer: Won't connect to wordpress.com
Publish Everywhere? Not from word processors...
Learning to live with NeoOffice: applying styles via the keyboard
Ultra cheap DIY bike trailer made from a moving trolley
A bout the RUBRIC project Trac wiki
ICE, now with added Research and Scholarship
Comparing XML word processing formats
More news on Word to HTML export
Webmonkey knows nothing about HTML
Some sample lists using styles
Word 2007 bibliographies and XSLT
The Affiliation Issue in Institutional Repository software
Better news about lists in Microsoft Word. Microsoft is listening.
Lists in Office 2007. Not pretty.
First post using Word 2007 Beta 2
Hey Gartner, how about telling people to use styles
Missed opportunities in opening up Microsoft Word
Blogging about repository software
Beyond blogging: style-driven HTML export from 2007. Please.
A word plugin for OpenDocument? Maybe.
Learning about 'The Learning Edge'
Virtual computing - I'm finally catching on
Welcome to two new RUBRIC bloggers
Use UTF-X unit testing if you're writing XSLT
Writely, meet the ICE template
Bibliographic Software: a biased summary
ICE: Agile Publishing (with a long snout)
Project management is like pedalling a bike
ICE: Content Management with a long tongue
Don't invent your own word processing template
How not to lose or forget a Mac DVI to VGA adaptor
Getting the Alt key working for OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X
Microsoft XML formats to be standardized, allegedly
Work on word processing formats by Ian Barnes
Cutting off your word processor's tail
Yet more about XHTML export: sustainability
More about ICE and why XHTML is important
Why do I keep going on about HTML export from word processors?
OpenOffice.org 2 released (but not for the Mac)
Word documents on the web: still happening and still a very, very bad idea
Hacks to get bibliographic support in OpenOffice.org Writer
How to set up del.icio.us and bloglines accounts
OpenDocument or not you still need to Use Styles.
Blog this button for OpenOffice.org (well half anyway)
New job: RUBRIC Technical Manager
More on Microsoft Word vs XML Schemas
OpenOffice.org for Mac - the Alt key
Homework from Open Publish 2005
Installing OpenOffice v2 (beta) for Mac OS X
Classy web templates - take two
Trac, RSS, Subversion, OpenOffice.org getting stuff done
Improve the 'story' about Word and XML
Tutorial: Enterprise content management using Word Processors
Pt's empire expands with a new Word Processing site
New models in research and courseware publishing
OpenOffice.org version 2 Beta for Mac OS X
Things that kill you don't make you stronger
Trac is the answer to all our problems
Why keep that $25 Linux machine?
Del.icio.us as outboard memory
Deep structure vs word processing
Hacking OpenOffice article on XML.com
Aggregation will be rough on Learning Management Systems
Templates atrophy in Microsoft Word
The delicious intranet, for real
Word to XML and back in Python
ePublishing still important to eLearning
General purpose document formats, again
Learning Management Systems not great at content management
Draft paper on content management for courseware
WebCT Vista: First impressions
At last, a template for OpenOffice.org
Classy web templates using plain-old HTML
WP Interop; Progress on Word to XML
WP Interop Project: First documentation
Practical Word Processor Interoperability
XHTML as a word processing format
Links considered too difficult for online education software
Learning Management Systems at Ausweb
Ausweb 04, the neutrality of educational software
(X)HTML as a universal document format
Test Driven Development; A Sort-of Rant.
harmful, leering face of CSS is trying to arrange containers on a page.