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Introduction to EPrints 3

• Introduction
• History

• New Features in EPrints 3.1
• In SVN (Target = 3.2)

• EPrints Version Numbering

Installation and First Steps Download EPrints 3.4 series (latest release) Read this before upgrading your archive from 3.3 to 3.4 Upgrading between EPrints 3.4 versions Download Development EPrints 3.3 series (legacy supported release) Read this before upgrading your archive from 3.2 to 3.3 Download February 2021 security patch for EPrints 3.3.16 Legacy development Installing EPrints From Binary Installing EPrints 3 via Redhat RPM Installing EPrints 3 via Fedora RPM Installing EPrints 3 via apt (Debian/Ubuntu) Using the Live CD EPrints Live CD Help Building the Live CD Installing EPrints From Source (.tar.gz) Recommended Platforms Required software Install Guides Installing Eprints 3 on Fedora Core 7 (also applicable to FC6) Installing EPrints 3 on RedHat Enterprise 4 Installing EPrints 3 on OS X Installing EPrints 3 on Debian/Ubuntu - The Quick Way Installing EPrints 3 on Ubuntu 6.10 Installing EPrints 3 on Debian Installing in a chroot Debian/Ubuntu Installing EPrints on various platforms. Installing EPrints 3 with an https server Post Installation Upgrading from an earlier version of EPrints3 Migrating from EPrints 2.3 Getting Started Getting Started Maintenance Backups Generate Scripts Alerts Log Files Automating your maintenance Troubleshooting

How-to Guides What is a how-to? Orientation (Start here) New to EPrints 3? - before diving into the how-tos, take some time to read through this brief orientation guide and familiarise yourself with the EPrints configuration landscape... Migrated from EPrints 2? - this orientation guide is intended to help you re-orient yourselves in your new EPrints 3 set up... Removing the Front Page Warning - Your first go at branding Branding with confidence - one of the most common EPrints customisations is to add your own institution's branding and "look and feel" to the interface... Branding, the next level - how to completely change the interface to your own design OAI Adding new views Workflow Deposit Types Removing types Metadata Subjects (fold in with Organisation Hierarchy under "controled vocabularies") Organisation Hierarchy - how to put your own organisation's Hierarchy into EPrints 3 Searches Autocompletion and Authority Files (Romeo Autocomplete) - add autocomplete functionality to the Publication Title input field based on an authority file downloaded from EPrints Romeo... Create Export Plugins - create a Perl Module that will export your data... Login-Only Repository - require a username and password to access all pages (including search, browse, and the front page)... Change Deposit Status in Bulk - move a large number of deposits from inbox to archive more Demoprints Repository - How to set up and configure the demoprints.eprints.org repository. How-to contribute There's a number of different ways you can contribute to the EPrints project. This section covers all the ones we can think of... Always make an entry on http://files.eprints.org/ for your contribution, even if you don't upload the files. This will make it the one-stop place for people to find EPrints extensions. Plugins Scripts Themes Translations Other neighbourly things to do Extension Packages Misc Preservation Support in EPrints 3 i18n

Technical Reference EPrints Directory Structure - will be linked somewhere better, later. Metadata - configuring metadata fields. Repository Configuration XML Configuration Files EPScript - documentation for the EP3 Scripting language (for use in citations and workflow files). EPrints Control Format - the structure used to embed EPScript in an XML configuration file. Citation Format Workflow Format - the structure of the EP3 workflow files Phrase Format Template Format XPAGE Format XML Export Format EPrints data structure of the software of the database (relating the dataobjects to each other using eprints fields) Data Objects and data sets The EPrint Object The User Object The Document Object The Subject Object The Saved Search Object The History Object The Access Object The Request Object Plugins Import Export Plugins Components Screen Plugins Convert Autocompletion Understanding IDs in Workflow Forms API Dynamic Template System