Online DSpace and Fedora Workshop from EIFL
Utrecht, Netherlands On Sept. 9, 2011 EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-OA are hosting an online workshop to focus on methods for setting up DSpace and Fedora repositories for open access research literature, scientific data, theses, reports and multimedia. This free…
Read MoreHow “Big” are DSpace Repositories?
Ithaca, NY Determining how many resources will be managed in an institutional repository is a key point in determining how to set it up and which technologies to use. A discussion on the DSpace users list provided information about DSpace repositories …
Read MoreDuraCloud Video Pilot Kick-Off Meeting
Cambridge, MA On August 4, 2011, the DuraCloud team kicked off the DuraCloud Video Pilot Project with a one day meeting with pilot institutions the Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) and WGBH Boston. The goal of the DuraCloud Video Pilot is t…
Read MoreNOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 3.5
The latest release of Fedora is ready for integration into large repository systems
Ithaca, NY Today the Fedora Committers Group and the DuraSpace organization announced the release of Fedora 3.5. This release of Fedora, the robust framework for building digital repositories, focuses on several “under the hood” changes that improve Fedora’s ability [...]
VIVO Delivers Scholarly Collaborators
Ithaca, NY Like open access and open source, open data is part of current concepts around increased transparency in private and public information. On-the-fly and serendipitous mashups built on freely-shared content are often highlighted in social networks as accomplishments, insights and reports about sometimes dramatic news events. Open access and open source developments are fueled [...]
Read MoreTwo Decades of ArXiv Success
Ithaca, NY In an evolving repository world where institutions’ efforts to preserve the digital scholarly record are often balanced among competing priorities–sustainability, open access, curation strategies and changing definitions of “ho…
Read MoreWORKSHOP INVITATION: The Future of the Past of the Web, British Library Conf. Centre, London
London, UK The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), The British Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition invite you to attend their 3rd joint web archiving workshop on October 7, 2011, at the British Library Conference Centre. The previous 2 workshops were held in 2006 and 2009.
The workshop has a programme of invited [...]
“RIRI” REGISTRATION OPEN: Red Island Repository Institute 2011
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada Registration is now open for this year’s Red Island Repository Institute, September 17-23. We are planning to have 2 streams this year: Digital Humanities and Science Data. Come and learn about cutting-edge repository technologies with like minded folk on beautiful Prince Edward Island at beautiful Dalvay by the Sea, which we have [...]
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