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- Harvard DASH
- Frontpage look? Very large news section with images, regularly being updated
- Backend edit features? Unknown, requesting information
- Implemented by: inhouse
- African Virtual University OER
- Frontpage look? Different newsblocks, each with a title
- Backend edit features? Each newsblock is a different xml file that should be edited in DRI. Each new block requires a change in the sitemap
- Implemented by @mire
A modest look at other players in the competitionfield
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/
- Introduction text
- Contemporary news with one news item, no links to a news archive
- "At a glance" box with links to top 10 downloads and 60 most recent additions
- "Paper of the Day" box featuring one item
- A line of repository vitals: number of papers, total number of downloads, number of downloads that year
- Introduction text
- Different navigation boxes, almost like a sitemap
http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/
- Elaborate recent news feature, with a short news listing & clicking on an item expands the view.
- Older news under "more research news", featuring only the headlines
- New books, featuring a thumbnail listing of books and some metadata
- Access to the RSS feeds for news
- Searchbox
DCAT discussion preparation
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