Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA At the heart of any open source project are the people who come together to create innovative software. Today DuraSpace, a non-profit organization that combines Fedora Commons and DSpace technologies, announced a launch of their Solution Community program to extend participation in open source software development to strategic decision makers.
With over […]

Mountain View, CA Register today to join Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and host Northeastern University for an information-packed day focused on open computing solutions and best practices in the digital preservation and archiving space.
Duraspace will lead two breakout sessions–one focused on the DuraCloud service, and one about DuraSpace Solution Communities […]

This is the text of a press release from the University of California. Contact Patricia Cruise for more information.
Santa Barbara, CA Researchers at the University of California have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network for earth and environmental scientists that will support […]

Denver, CO Join us at the All-Alliance Conference on Friday, January 29th for an exciting day of Cloud-, Data Durability-, and Repository-focused keynotes offered by Richard Katz, Vice President of EDUCAUSE and founding director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR); and Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Alliances and Director of the […]

By Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Alliances and Director of the Fedora Project, DuraSpace
The purpose of the Scholars Workbench group and other solutions community groups is to create opportunities for people who are interested in topics that strongly relate to the DuraSpace mission (everything that relates to the problem of the durability of […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Registration for the final four DuraSpace/Sun/SPARC 2009 “All About Repositories” web seminars is open. Topics include DuraSpace solution communities, open storage SAM architectures, DuraCloud Pilot Project information and how to make open scholarship happen with Creative Commons liscensing (Jan. 2010). You may register for any or all of these free web […]

Excerpted from: “Sun Microsystems Showcases Open Source Technologies at Educause 2009″ Denver, CO Columbia University Libraries has selected Sun’s Storage Archive Manager (SAM) solution to expand its digital library (academiccommons.columbia.edu). The Libraries is combining the SAM management software with Sun servers and storage and tape technologies to enable a coherent and comprehensive technology infrastructure that […]

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 […]

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 […]

London, UK The Subject Repositories Conference, which is the first of its kind, will explore the development of subject repositories worldwide and will see the launch of Economists Online, the key output of an EC-funded subject repository project managed by the Nereus consortium of top European economics libraries. Nereus members will showcase this subject repository […]