The Importance of a Decentralized Archiving Ecosystem
A discussion around the importance of a decentralized archive and ensuring the creators have full control over the submission process.
Po.et for Joomla!
KnowledgeArc is excited to announce the 1.0.0 Alpha release of our Po.et plugin for Joomla!. The Po.et plugin publishes Joomla! articles to the Po.et ledger via the Frost API and ensures the ownership of a content creator’s work is cemented on the blockchain forever. The Joomla! Po.et plugin is available for download at https://github.com/knowledgearcdotorg/joomla-poet-plugin/releases and…
Po.et – Own your creative work on the blockchain
We recently announced the new Frost API for Po.et. Po.et is a decentralized ledger for tracking the ownership of creative works. It uses proof of existence to verify the ownership of a particular work that is published to the Po.et blockchain. As KnowledgeArc’s decentralized digital asset platform evolves, it needs technology such as Po.et to…
PHP Blockchain
A blockchain implementation in PHP.
Blockchain’s Impact on Academia
Blockchain is the new buzz word and is generating a lot of excitement around financial industries. However, the blockchain has a number of other very useful applications not necessarily targeted at the exchange of money. Bitcoin The most well known blockchain implementation is Bitcoin. Bitcoin uses the blockchain as a giant, decentralized ledger of financial…
Introducing CollectionPress
DSpace + WordPress = CollectionPress. We are pleased to announce an open source project for the WordPress plugin, CollectionPress. CollectionPress brings together the document and knowledge management capabilities of DSpace with the content management and blogging capabilities of WordPress. CollectionPress can be used for creating an institution’s Author pages, allowing for each author to have…
CRIStin Upgrade and Addressing Harvesting Issues
The new release of the CRIStin repository introduces new metadata fields which may break existing DSpace harvests. To address these changes, we have released a new version of the CRIStin metadata registry for DSpace instances and is publicly available from our code repository at https://github.com/knowledgearcdotorg/cristin/. Check out the associated README file for information on how…
Offical JCar 1.0.0 Release
JCar, the Joomla! extension suite for integrating archived information with the Joomla! content management system, is now available as a stable release 1.0.0.
Altmetric For Joomla!
Embed an Altmetric badge on your Joomla! web site and monitor the impact of your research information.
Altmetrics Integration
Altmetrics provides an overview of your scholarly material’s online activity in a way that is quick and easy to disseminate. Using altmetrics to measure the impact adds value to your repository, whether that value is simply to help you determine whether users are engaging with your information, to whether it translates into funding opportunities for…