Sneep

Overview

The SNEEP (Social Networking Extensions to EPrints) project originally written at the ULCC provides a commenting functionality. This package includes a new implementation of the plugin which is compatible with both EPrints 3.1 and 3.2 in an easily installable and refactored package.

The original SNEEP project can be found at http://sneep.ulcc.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Installation

The preferred installation of this SNEEP system is on the EPrints 3.2 version. To check your version of EPrints, please visit http://yourrepository/cgi/counter.

If you are installing this package on the older EPrints 3.1 version, some additional installation steps are required:

Extracting Sneep

• Extract the perl_lib folder from the downloaded file into the root of your eprints installation (usually /opt/eprints3 or /usr/share/eprints3)
• Extract the files from the archives/YOUR_REPOSITORY folder in the downloaded file into your archives/repository folder.

3. Extract the files from the cgi/sneep folder in the downloaded file into the cgi/ folder in your eprints root (usually /opt/eprints3 or /usr/share/eprints3).

Core Modifications

perl_lib/EPrints/DataSet.pm

In this file locate the following section:

request => {
  sqlname => "request",
  class => "EPrints::DataObj::Request",
  import => 1,
  index => 1,
  datestamp => "datestamp",
},

Immediately after this block, add the following:

sneep => {
  sqlname => "sneep",
  class => "EPrints::DataObj::Sneep",
  index => 1,
},

Next find the following in the same file,

sub get_sql_dataset_ids
{
  return( qw/ import metafield cachemap message loginticket eprint user document saved_search subject history access request / );
}

At the end of the return line add sneep so that it resembles the following;

sub get_sql_dataset_ids
{
  return( qw/ import metafield cachemap message loginticket eprint user document saved_search subject history access request sneep / );
}

Sneep Counter

To install the sneep counter in the execute the following SQL statement on your database;

INSERT INTO counters SET countername='sneepid',counter=0;

Final Steps

Run the following commands to complete installation of the sneep extension;

bin/epadmin reload ARCHIVEID
bin/epadmin update_database_structure ARCHIVEID
bin/generate_static ARCHIVEID
bin/generate_abstracts ARCHIVEID

After doing this and restarting your webserver Sneep is now installed.