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 […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Mulgara, a scalable RDF database written entirely in Java, version 2.1.4 can be downloaded from: http://mulgara.org/download.html. This version now allows users to configure Mulgara to load up any XPathFunctionResolver class and use the functions it provides within SPARQL queries. By default, Mulgara is now including the EXSLT functions, along with several […]

Ithaca, NY The very active, global, Fedora Commons Repository community of software developers contribute to the core software development process. In addition they also develop complete applications on top of Fedora that address particular use cases or application areas. The “Getting Started with Fedora” Guide is designed to offer new users, or potential users, a […]

The DSpace platform now has over 700 instances in over 70 different countries worldwide.
DSpace continues to be the most popular repository solution, with well over a third of the known institutional repositories using the DSpace software. Each month there are between 20-30 new instances of DSpace. Check out “Who’s Using DSpace” to see the complete […]

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 […]

Ithaca, NY How do institutions decide what to save, and who makes those decisions? What are some current ideas around establishing review processes? What are the interrelated implications for long-term sustainability? These are some of the questions that come up when knowledge management groups, organizations and institutions reflect on which parts of their heritage of […]

Published by SPARC on September 24, 2009
Washington, DC – Last year, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary were among a handful of institutions that established pools of money, through their libraries, to cover the cost of open-access journal fees. This approach – aimed at supporting a new academic publishing model […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA The DSpace committers group has announced two new additions to the group: Jeffrey Trimble and Larry  Stone. Please join us in welcoming them!
Jeffrey Trimble is currently the Systems Librarian at Youngstown State  University in Youngstown, Ohio. His responsibilities range from  tracing network cabling under the carpet to Unix administration on  their […]

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 […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA While many savvy information managers and developers know that DSpace (http://dspace.org/), part of the DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org) product line, is the software of choice for academic, non-profit and commercial organizations that are building open access repositories, there are still some who may wonder about what DSpace is, and what’s “under the hood.” […]