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.

Installing on EPrints 3.2

Downloading

Make sure that you download the file at the following link, Sneep for EPrints 3.2. The file should be called sneep-3.2-XXX.tar.gz, where XXX is the version of SNEEP you have downloaded.

Link CGI Scripts

Next you need to link the CGI scripts. This is done with the following commands;

ln -s /usr/share/eprints3/archives/ARCHIVEID/cgi/sneep /usr/share/eprints3/cgi/sneep
ln -s /usr/share/eprints3/archives/ARCHVIEID/cgi/users/sneep /usr/share/eprints3/cgi/users/sneep

Installing on EPrints 3.1

Downloading

Make sure that you download the file at the following link, Sneep for EPrints 3.1. The file should be called sneep-3.1-XXX.tar.gz, where XXX is the version of SNEEP you have downloaded.

Extracting

• 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/ARCHIVEID folder in the downloaded file into your archives/ARCHIVEID folder, where ARCHIVEID is the name of your archive.

Link CGI Scripts

Next you need to link the CGI scripts. This is done with the following commands;

ln -s /usr/share/eprints3/archives/ARCHIVEID/cgi/sneep /usr/share/eprints3/cgi/sneep
ln -s /usr/share/eprints3/archives/ARCHVIEID/cgi/users/sneep /usr/share/eprints3/cgi/users/sneep

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.