SNEEP (Social Networking Extensions for EPrints) was a 6-month project funded by JISC to develop an open source plugin for the EPrints repository software. The plugin adds commenting, tagging, and bookmarking functionality to allow users to socially engage with content. This helps keep valuable user interactions within the repository rather than exported to separate social bookmarking sites. The project team from ULCC developed the SNEEP plugin and it is now available to any EPrints repository to install.

1. SNEEP
Social Networking Extensions for EPrints
Richard Davis, ULCC
RSP Repository Software Day, 19th March 2009

2. SNEEP
• JISC-funded “Rapid Innovation Project”
• 6 months, October 2007 - April 2008
• Open source plugin for EPrints 3:
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Comments
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Tags
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Bookmarks

3. ORIGINS
• “Flickr for EPrints.” Jill Walker, DSUG 2006
(jilltxt.net)
• “...institutional repositories can be made more
accessible for learning and teaching through
the use of Web 2.0 technologies.” Franklin &
van Harmelen, 2007 (tinyurl.com/ccwc8u)

4. ORIGINS
• “A book which has been annotated can give us a
direct insight into the interface between author
and reader, can show not only that a text was
definitely read and absorbed but also perhaps how
it was received.”
David Pearson, 2007. (http://eprints.rclis.org/
archive/00012026/)

5. ORIGINS

6. ORIGINS

7. ORIGINS
• Who needs Commenting, Bookmarking and Tagging
functions within the repository? What about Del.icio.us,
Connotea, Zotero, A.nnotate, Diigo, etc.?
• Large repositories and meta repositories with substantial user community
• Non-textual repositories - images, multimedia
• Already specified as a requirement by some IRs
• Keeps potentially valuable added information within the
Repository management system - rather than giving it
away!

8. ORIGINS
www.linnean-online.org

9. THE PROJECT
dablog.ulcc.ac.uk

10. THE PROJECT

11. THE PROJECT
sneep.ulcc.ac.uk

12. THE RESULT

13. THE RESULT

14. THE RESULT

15. THE RESULT
files.eprints.org

16. THE TEAM
Richard Davis, Rory McNicholl, Ben Wheeler
University of London Computer Centre (ULCC)
r.davis@ulcc.ac.uk
Andy McGregor, JISC Programme Manager