This is the document publishing and project support service of the UCC Computer Centre Electronic Publishing Unit. Contact us at +353 21 490 2609 or email epu@ucc.ie
News (Monday 6 September 2010)
IRIS update (2010-08-23)
The IRIS system for Research Support has been upgraded to Vidatum Academic 2.0, and the published profiles are now being served with a new script. There are still a few oddities to sort out, but it is expected that these will be fixed by the end of September.
LATEX and XML support (2010-08-01)
The new TEX Collection DVD is nearly ready, and copies for UCC have been ordered. We are hoping to upgrade the document server and switch to Saxon some time over the 2010-11 new year break. Due to financial constraints it was unfortunately not possible to attend either the 32nd (25th) TEX Users Group conference nor the Balisage markup conference, so the content of the training courses cannot be updated until later in 2011. LATEX courses are being scheduled for January 2011 onwards, possibly with one session being held in late 2010.
Research Profiles Live (2010-05-14)
IRIS, the new Research Support System, has successfully completed the pilot, and the published profiles are now being rolled out to all departments and school over the next few months. Each new unit going live gets to feature one of their researchers on the UCC home page.
Research Profiles (2010-02-19)
The new Research Support System is in a pilot phase, and the published profiles are under development. Cocoon and XSLT have been used to manipulate the data published by the system so that it conforms to the UCC look and feel, and adds the features we need.
LATEX (2010-01-10)
A new mini-FAQ is now available, with (for once) prescriptive solutions rather than the traditional approach of explaining every last detail and leaving the user with a collection of confusing choices.
Old server inaccessible (2009-11-16)
Due to an untraced networking problem, the old server (epu.ucc.ie) is offline. Most of the documents still served from there are available here (see the menu to the left). We hope to have the problem sorted out today.
Lucene search engine (2009-11-06)
Installing the Lucene search engine only to discover it only comes with a HTML search tool: nothing for XML.
Pieces of history (2009-10-14)
The even older machine, a Sun SparcStation IPX called curia.ucc.ie, failed to reboot last year (2008), and with an inoperable screen it was not possible to see what was wrong. It has been lying idle ever since, waiting for the time when someone can come up with a working Sun monitor that we can plug in and see what is failing. It's probably something simple, but without any screen, we're blind. Moral: never, ever buy proprietary hardware for which there is no easily-available substitute.
Getting closer (2009-09-22)
Finally there is some light at the end of the tunnel. The old server is still running, but all documents and services have now been copied to the new system, and should be reconfigured and running before the end of the [calendar] year. Once those services are stable, the old machine will be switched off and scrapped.