GNU EPrints

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GNU EPrints

• Technical Issues Discussion
• June 23rd 2004
• Christopher Gutteridge

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Management

• Development Model
• Technical SIG
• MySQL model?

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Documentation

• In code
• Technichal
• How tos Instructions

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New Technologies

• Apache 2
• IPV6
• MySQL 4
• Support for other databases

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Platform Support

• Fedora
• Redhat Enterprise
• Other UNIX
• OSX
• Windows!?

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Future Feature Ideas

• Multiple views on a single archive
• Dynamic Sets
• Import and Export plug-ins
• Web based configuration

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Future Applications

• RAE
• Ebank (data archiving)
• Journal/Conference Management
• Teaching/Learning objects

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EPrints 3?

• More complex data models
• Revision Control
• Plug-in architecture