Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA DuraSpace staff members will be speaking about Fedora Commons, DSpace, and DuraCloud during sessions, press briefings, on the exhibit floor and in hallways this November:
EDUCAUSE, Nov. 3-6, 2009, Denver, CO–Michele Kimpton and Carol Minton Morris will be at the Sun booth and at a cocktail party with DuraSpace, JA-SIG, Kuali, Sakai […]

This summary of key findings from the Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report was provided by Jarret Cummings, Special Assistant to the President, EDUCAUSE. Traveling to the EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver Nov. 3-6, 2009? Please visit DuraSpace at the Sun booth and plan on attending the DuraSpace, JA-SIG, Kuali, Sakai reception.
Boulder, CO, Washington, […]

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 […]

Madrid, Spain In the tradition of past Open Repositories conferences, the new Fifth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories 2010 (OR2010) web site promises more opportunities to explore the challenges faced by user communities and others in the emerging repository-enabled information landscape from July 6 -9, 2010. The site also points out the top five […]

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, Mountain View, CA Join presenters Jennifer McLennan, SPARC, Lisa Brooks, IssueLab (http://www.issuelab.org), Bryan Beecher, Director, Computing and Network Services, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR), University of Michigan, and Erik Mitchell, IT Development Librarian Z. Smith Reynolds Library (http://digitalforsyth.org) for a free DuraSpace/Sun/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar, “SPARC OA […]

Washington, DC Less than one week from today, more than 200 sites around the globe will mark Open Access Week 2009. The concept of Open Access is based on the simple idea that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. Research institutes, colleges, universities, and advocacy organizations everywhere will host events or […]

Ithaca, NY Today’s web seminars will also be made available online.
DuraSpace Updates from Fedora Commons and DSpace: Web Seminar, Sept. 30
The next Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:00am PT. Register at http://www.education-webevents.com/.
DuraSpace flagship open source repository platforms are preparing to release new versions of Fedora […]

Ithaca, NY The SciencePipes (http://sciencepipes.org/alpha/home/) team has announced a new release of the system. In this version the new pipe (workflow) editor has been deployed. See a demo of that functionality at http://sciencepipes.org/docs/demos/alpha/functionality/new-editor/. The system is built using the open source Kepler system with plans to add a Fedora Commons Repository for data storage.
The building […]

Gothenburg, Sweden The DSpace User Group Meeting to be held Oct. 14-16 in Gothenburg, Sweden will serve as a gathering point for the DSpace community of users, administrators and developers to discuss DSpace platform possibilities, and to learn more about the new DuraSpace organization. TODAY is the last day to register for the meeting: http://dsug09.ub.gu.se/index.php/dsug/dsug09/schedConf/registration.
Participants […]