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<p>This repository is running on GNU EPrints open repository software, a freely distributable repository system available from <a href="http://software.eprints.org/">software.eprints.org</a>. Other institutions are invited (and encouraged) to set up their own open repositories for author <a href="http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/">self-archiving</a>, using the freely-distributable <a href="http://software.eprints.org/">GNU EPrints software</a> used at this site.</p>


<h2>Contact Information</h2>

<p>Any correspondence concerning this specific repository should be sent to <a href="mailto:&adminemail;">&adminemail;</a>.</p>


<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>

<h3>Pilot Project Team</h3>

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		<td align="right"><strong>Project Leader:</strong></td>
		<td>Dr Nigel Stanger, Department of Information Science</td>
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		<td align="right"><strong>Project Sponsor:</strong></td>
		<td>Dr Graham McGregor, School of Business</td>
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		<td align="right"><strong>Technical Manager:</strong></td>
		<td>Brent Jones, School of Business</td>
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		<td align="right"><strong>Library Liaison:</strong></td>
		<td>Nicola McDowell, Library</td>
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		<td align="right"><strong>Research Assistants:</strong></td>
		<td>Monica Ballantine</td>
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		<td>Jeremy Johnston</td>
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<h3>Standing Committee</h3>

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	<li>Sue Pharo, Library</li>
	<li>Mike Harte, ITS</li>
	<li>Professor Michael Hall, Department of Tourism</li>
	<li>Dr Graham McGregor, School of Business</li>
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<h3>Other Contributors</h3>

<p>Special thanks go to Professor George Benwell (Information Science) for providing the initial impetus for the project; and to Arthur Sale (University of Tasmania) and Eve Young (The University of Melbourne) for their help with setting up the repository.</p>

<p>Thank you also to the many people who have taken the time to comment on and assist with the project in various ways.</p>


<h2>About this Software</h2>
<p>This site is running GNU EPrints / revision: &version;</p>
<p>GNU EPrints is free software developed by the University of Southampton, England.</p>
<p>For more information see <a href="http://eprints.org/">eprints.org</a> and <a href="http://software.eprints.org/">software.eprints.org</a></p>


<h2>Technologies Employed and Supported</h2>

<p><strong>Powered by:</strong>
<a href="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a>,
<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache Webserver</a>,
<a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a>,
<a href="http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3c.org/XML/">XML</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3c.org/DOM/">DOM</a>,
<a href="http://paracite.eprints.org/">ParaCite</a>,
<a href="http://software.eprints.org/">GNU EPrints</a>.
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<p><strong>Supports:</strong>
<a href="http://www.openarchives.org/">Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting</a>,
<a href="vlit.html">VLit Transclusions</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/">Valid XHTML</a>,
<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/">Valid CSS</a>.
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<p><strong>Part of:</strong>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/">The GNU Project</a>.
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			<a href="http://www.mysql.com/"><img src="&base_url;/images/poweredbymysql-167.png" border="0" alt="Powered by MySQL" align="middle" /></a>
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		<td width="33%" align="center">
			<a href="http://www.openarchives.org/"><img src="&base_url;/images/OA100.png" border="0" alt="The Open Archives Initiative" align="middle" /></a>
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			<a href="http://www.gnu.org/"><img src="&base_url;/images/gnu-head-sm.jpg" border="0" alt="Part of the GNU Project" align="middle" width="129" height="122" /></a>
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			<a href="http://tardis.eprints.org/"><img src="&base_url;/images/tardis-logo.png" border="0" alt="Tardis Project" align="middle" /></a>
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		<td width="33%" align="center">
			<a href="http://software.eprints.org/"><img src="&base_url;/images/eprintslogo.gif" border="0" alt="GNU EPrints" align="middle" /></a>
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			<a href="vlit.html"><img src="&base_url;/images/XanaduVLit.png" border="0" alt="Powered by Vlit" align="middle" /></a>
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<h2>Software Credits</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/cjg">Christopher Gutteridge</a> - Designer and coder of <em>EPrints version 2</em>.</p>
<p>Mike Jewell - Pre-release testing. The initial versions of scripts for creating and installing an <em>EPrints v2</em> package. Some coding assistance.</p>
<p>Harry Mason - Testing. Document to text conversion wrappers. Document icons.</p>
<p>Robert Tansley - Creator of <em>EPrints 1</em> on which <em>EPrints 2</em> is based.</p>
<p>Al Riddoch &lt;<a href="mailto:ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk">ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>&gt; - Assistance in writing the "configure" script for the installer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/jmnh">Jessie Hey</a> and Pauline Simpson (as part of the <a href="http://tardis.eprints.org">TARDIS Project</a>) - Feature suggestions and contributions to the default configuration of version 2.3.</p>
<p>Gui Power - Adapting the <a href="&base_url;/help/">online help</a> for version 2.</p>

<p>The orginal statstics generation code was written at the University of Melbourne, then modified and substantially rewritten by Christian McGee and Arthur Sale at the University of Tasmania (<a href="mailto:eprints@leven.comp.utas.edu.au">eprints@leven.comp.utas.edu.au</a>). Support for EPrints short URLs and the MaxMind GeoIP database were added by Nigel Stanger at the University of Otago.</p>

<p>The free <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country">GeoLite Country</a> database is provided by MaxMind LLC.</p>

<p>The document format icons come from the <a href="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=27788">Gnome-mix icon set for KDE</a>, compiled by mavvert and licensed under the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>.</p>

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EPrints was developed at the <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">School of Electronics and Computer Science</a> at the <a href="http://www.soton.ac.uk/">University of Southampton</a>, England.</p>

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<a href="http://www.soton.ac.uk/"><img src="&base_url;/images/uoslogo.png" border="0" alt="University of Southampton" align="top" /></a>
<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/"><img src="&base_url;/images/ecslogo.png" border="0" alt="School of Electronics and Computer Science" align="top" /></a>
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