Fedora Digital Object Repository

Ithaca, NY  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 ... [More] various interesting Fedora projects going on in the community and to look for opportunities for collaboration [...] [Less]

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 hotel on Prince Edward Island, Canada Sept. 17-22, 2011. Brad McLean, DuraSpace CTO [...]

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 ... [More] “ICPSR: Building on 50 Years of Leadership,” and the meeting will serve as the launch of ICPSR’s [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] issues, both from an organizational/policy perspective, as well from a code development perspective, DCAT is requesting input to help [...] [Less]

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 (GSoC - http://code.google.com/soc/). As you may recall, this is the first year that all [...]

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 ... [More] 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 [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] committers, but also a group known as the DSpace Community Advisory Team or DCAT. The primary goals of DCAT are to help review [...] [Less]

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 [...]

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC Washington, DC In 2010, Open Access Week (OAW) was the largest and most successful yet. With just under 900 participants in 94 countries, last year’s event was no less than three times larger than it was just a year before. Hundreds of videos, photos, [...]

Dublin, Ireland The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks proposals from candidate host organisations for the 2013 and 2014 Open Repositories Annual Conferences. Preference will be given to North American hosts for OR2013, and to European ... [More] hosts for OR2014. Proposals from all geographic areas will, however, are given consideration. Important Dates The [...] [Less]