Let’s be honest: I found out about this project by misspelling ‘Carpet Project’ with ‘Capret Project’ at Google. But I was really surprising by the result, because the outcome of this small project is very interesting: CaPRet stands for ‘Cut and Paste Reuse Tracking’ and is a mini-project funded by JISC Cetis, the provided code allows an owner of a webpage to track what parts of his page is copied and maybe where it’s used again. But the code also adds author and license information to the copied text, which the user will see after pasting the text to new document.

The developer Brandon Muramatsu describes on his Blog how it works: “CaPRéT uses the jQuery library and a jQuery clipboard extension to monitor the copy event on a given web page. At the time content is copied, the extension adds attribution information ...

The information platform on ePublishing technology CARPET has improved its services: The new self-administration functionality allows you to control all your data and entries; you’re from now on able to administrate, to edit or to delete the datasets you leave on the platform. The CARPET Catalogue for ePublishing software and services has got a new look and a bilingual workflow for catalogue entries has been implemented. The new improvements are part of the sustainability concept of the CARPET project in order to provide the CARPET Platform to you for a long period of time.

With the new self-administration functions every member of the CARPET community can administrate, update or delete the data, he had left previous on the platform. Beside every personal detail in the ...

Evidence Base at Birmingham City University has once again been commissioned to undertake an important survey of developers working and studying in education (largely in universities and colleges in the UK) and their stakeholders on behalf of DevCSI:

http://svy.mk/devcsi12

If you are developer, you work with developers, or your work is affected by the work of developers, please fill in this important survey. The broad topics of this survey include: benchmarking developers across the sector; examining stakeholders' views of software development; discovering examples of local innovation; and gathering suggestions about the on going future development of a developer community in UK education.

The survey is very important for informing the future work of the DevCSI project and should provide useful ...

The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is hosting a series of free webinars featuring various interesting topics for librarians and repository managers. The webinars titles are “Advocacy using campaign materials” (June 26^th), “A way of demonstrating the importance of institutional research” (July 3^th) and “Advocacy for the arts” (July 16^th). All webinars are held at 11am GMT, a booking is mandatory on the RSP event page.

The webinar “Advocacy using campaign materials” on the July 26^th will feature a discussion about advocacy issues for repositories including presentations about how marketing campaigns can be used to present advantages of repositories and about the use of social media for repositories managers. The webinar is hosted by Yvonne Budden, University of Warwick and Misha ...

The call for papers for the Sixth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic has been published. The MTSR'12 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics research as well as applications of the semantic web and related technologies. The conference topic is metadata and their relationships with Ontologies, Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and Software Engineering. Several different tracks are organized to be held in the conference program like for example a Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures or a Track on Linked data. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer’s Communication in Computer and Information Science series. All interested in presenting ...