Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA With pride in the community participation that powers open source repository platform development, DuraSpace and the Fedora Commons Repository Project are pleased to announce that Kai Strnad will serve as Community Release Manager for the upcoming release of Fedora Repository 3.3.
Kai is a Software Engineer with FIZ Karlsruhe, and has been […]

Ithaca, NY Cornell University Library is pleased to announce a $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish and support the national networking of biomedical researchers. The two-year grant is led by the University of Florida, with Cornell University and Indiana University as major partners.
VIVO, the technology supporting the network, builds […]

Ithaca, NY IASSIST 2010, the 36th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) will be hosted by the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) and Cornell University Library (CUL) and will be held at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, USA, June 1-4, 2010.
The theme of […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Small archives represent the long tail of cultural heritage. Most of us are coping with inadequate resources available for addressing our primary missions, and lack the time, staff, skills, and other resources to address long-term access to that cultural heritage. This includes the challenge of locating and securing tools and resources […]

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CA The latest version of Islandora Virtual Box Image and Demo (version 1.0) is now available from UPEI Robertson Library. These documents and files allow users to install the complete Islandora stack running in a VirtualBox environment. The most recent VirtualBox version will always be available from this page:
http://islandora.ca/virtualbox
including basic instructions […]

Washington, DC Please join Michele Kimpton, Chief Business Officer of DuraSpace, for a WebEx web seminar sponsored by the Library of Congress (LOC) NDIIPP on Sept. 30, 2009. She will present an overview of the DuraCloud platform, currently in development. Her presentation will include details about the current DuraCloud pilot program in progress with New […]

San Francisco, CA The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced that PLoS journals will now provide online article-level metrics for published articles. PLoS is a a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
Web 2.0 online tools and services provide us with multiple […]

San Francisco, CA The Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting will be taking place October 7-9, 2009 in San Francisco. Thought-leaders and solution providers in the areas of data curation, data management of eScience content, preservation, repositories, and storage technologies will be presenting Wednesday and Thursday. Collaborative working groups are scheduled on […]

Tokyo, Japan The DRFIC Steering Committee is welcoming poster submissions in all areas relevant to digital repository and open access. The Conference will be held December 3-4, 2009 in Tokyo.
http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/DRFIC2009/index_en.php
DRFIC 2009 will provide a place in the Asia Pacific Region to discuss academic communication and the Open Access Movement which is a broader theme than […]

Ithaca, NY Achieving a balance between available resources and creative initiatives is a long-standing task for colleges and universities. Educause has released a brief, “7 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing” that aims to inform university IT managers about how to plan and budget for leveraging cloud technologies to provide local services through the […]