Quickstart:Customise EPrints

This page assumes you have completed the previous pages in the Quickstart Guide.

What does Customise Mean in EPrints?

There are lots of ways you may want to customise EPrints, this page aims to help you understand what those ways are, and direct you to resources to help you achieve those changes.

Concepts

When changing your EPrints system, there are a few concepts its helpful to be aware of before you begin.

Archive

Your Archive is the directory created in /opt/eprints3/archives/. This holds your configuration and files that override default functionality as well as the physical location of content stored in the repository.

Phrases

Text in EPrints is designed to be customisable by admin users to allow them to match their organisations language and tone. To achieve this, references are included in templates which then load the content entered by an admin.

Phrases have various purposes. One is to ensure consistent use of terminology throughout the archive. It also essential for supporting multi-language archives. They are used for defining all metadata field names and their help texts.

A prominent example of a phrase is an archive's name which is appears in the archive directory's cfg/lang/en/phrases/archive_name.xml, as follows:

<epp:phrase id="archive_name">Example Archive</epp:phrase>