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About EPrints
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# About EPrints

**Source**: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/eprints/
**Parent**: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html

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# About EPrints

## About this software

This site is running EPrints 3.4.5 (Kombucha Hypercane) (EPrints Services).

EPrints has been developed at the [School of Electronics and Computer Science](https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) at the [University of Southampton](https://www.soton.ac.uk/), UK.

For more information please see [www.eprints.org](https://www.eprints.org/).

[EPrints Services](https://www.eprints.org/uk/index.php/services/) based in Southampton can also provide hosting, training and consultancy services for your EPrints repository.

## Credits

### Software Architects

- Christopher Gutteridge
- Dr Tim Brody
- Seb Francois
- Justin Bradley

### Developers

- Dr David Newman
- Dr Don Cruickshank
- Ed Oakley
- Kelly Terrell
- Dr Will Fyson
- Dr Jiadi Yao
- Adam Field
- Dr Timothy Miles-Board
- Dr Dave Tarrant
- Patrick McSweeney

### Contributors

- Alexander Bergolth
- Dr Michael O. Jewell
- Dr Jessie Hey
- Dr Harry Mason
- Al Riddoch
- Dr Gui Power
- Pauline Simpson
- Robert Tansley
- Adam White
- Wendy White
- Dr Steve Hitchcock
- Denis Pitzalis
- Matthew Kerwin
- Mark Gregson
- John Salter

### Project Management

- Professor Leslie Carr
- John Darlington

### user experience consultant

- prof mc schraefel

### Visionary and Software Specifications

- Professor Stevan Harnad

Thanks to the EPrints users and community for contributing ideas, bug reports and fixes.

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## Technologies employed and supported:

Powered by:
:   [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com/)
:   [Apache Webserver](https://www.apache.org/)
:   [Perl](https://www.perl.org/)
:   [mod\_perl](https://perl.apache.org/)
:   [Xapian](https://xapian.org/)
:   [XML](https://www.w3c.org/XML/)
:   [DOM](https://www.w3c.org/DOM/)
:   [RDF](https://www.w3c.org/RDF/)
:   [CodeMirror](https://codemirror.net/)
:   [Flowplayer](https://flowplayer.org/)
:   [CPAN](https://www.cpan.org/)

Supports:
:   [Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting](https://www.openarchives.org/)
:   [Valid XHTML](https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/)
:   [Valid CSS](https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/)
:   [Linked Data](https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data)

Part of:
:   [The GNU Project](https://www.gnu.org/)

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EPrints is Copyright © University of Southampton, 2000-2022.