DURASPACE
Regional Fedora Users Meeting

There will be a regional Fedora user group meeting on Friday, October 14, 2011 from 9am-4pm at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. for anyone in the D.C./Maryland/Virginia area.
The focus of the meeting is to find out about various intere…

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Posted on 4th October 2011Comments Off
RIRI Rocks: Notes from the Red Island Repository Institute

Ithaca, NY The Fedora framework for building digital repositories along with some of the community initiatives that have helped to fuel its success were the focus of the Red Island Repository Institute (RIRI) 2011 held at the historic Dalvay By The Sea…

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Posted on 29th September 2011Comments Off
DuraSpace Gold Sponsor ICPSR Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Celebration

Ann Arbor, MI The 2011 Biennial Meeting of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) for more than 160 official representatives will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan October 5-7, 2011.  This year’s conference theme is “ICPSR: Building on 50 Years of Leadership,” and the meeting will serve as the launch of ICPSR’s [...]

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Posted on 29th September 2011Comments Off
Take the DSpace Community Survey on Metadata Support

At the request of the DSpace Committers and Developers, the DSpace Community Advisory Team or DCAT has begun an effort to build a community consensus on improving the metadata support in future DSpace releases. Because there are many different issues, both from an organizational/policy perspective, as well from a code development perspective, DCAT is requesting input to help [...]

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Posted on 29th September 2011Comments Off
Google Summer of Code Student Projects Contribute to DuraSpace Open Technologies

From Tim Donohue, DuraSpace technical lead and developer
Ithaca, NY As we head into Fall (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), we thought it appropriate to reflect back on the successes that came out of this year’s Google Summer of Code…

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Posted on 28th September 2011Comments Off
University of Hull’s Hydra Goes Live

From Richard Green, Consultant to Library & Learning Innovation, University of Hull, managing the Hydrangea in Hull and Hydra (Hull) Projects
Hull, UK The Hydra in Hull team is pleased to announce:
hydra.hull.ac.uk
This institutional repository head replaces Hull’s previous repository UI based on Muradora.  About 97% of content is transferred from Fedora 2.4 to Hydra-compliant Fedora 3.4.2 [...]

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Posted on 28th September 2011Comments Off
DCAT Update: Collaborating on New DSpace Features

Ithaca, NY The success of any open-source project lies with the community contributing its collective energy, knowledge, enthusiasm, and effort. In the DSpace community valuable contributions come not just from our numerous volunteer developers and co…

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Posted on 26th September 2011Comments Off
“Case Studies in Sustainability” from Ithaka S+R

From Marita La Monica, ITHAKA
New York, NY Ithaka S+R, with funding from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, revisited twelve digital projects first profiled in 2009 to understand the impact of the economic downturn on each project’s sustainability model. Ithaka S+R will be releasing a final report, a toolkit, and offering a [...]

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Posted on 22nd September 2011Comments Off