Archive for February, 2009

“All About Fedora” Webseminar

Join Thorny Staples, Fedora Commons Director of Community Strategy and Alliances for a live “All About Fedora” presentation on Wed., March 18, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m.. ET.
The letters in Fedora’s name stand for “Flexible, Extensible, Digital Object Repository Architecture,” and also for the idea that it’s core structure provides a robust, integrated, open source […]

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CALL: ECDL 2009

Corfu, Greece The 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009) will be held on the island of Corfu, Greece September 27 - October 2, 2009http://www.ecdl2009.eu/. Calls for proposals are now being accepted:
– Call for Tutorials Proposals:http://www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/tutorials.php
– Call for Workshops Proposals:http://www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/workshops.php
– Call for Panel Proposals:http://www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/panels.phpDates
– Submissions deadline for Workshops, Tutorials and Panels: February 27, 2009
– Workshops, Tutorials and […]

Posted in Topics: DSpace/Fedora, Data curation, Events, Humanities, Preservation and archiving, Scholarly publishing, Technology, eResearch, education

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TOMORROW–DSpace and Fedora: A Collaboration Update

Ithaca, NY On Wed., February 18, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET DSpace and Fedora Commons will offer an overview of their current collaborative activities and initiatives as part of a free webinar series All About Repositories sponsored by the DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic […]

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News from Developer Happiness Days

London, UK  Developers from UK and beyond gathered this week in London at DEV8D, Developer Happiness Days. The event was organized by David Flanders and the JISC event committee, who are: Neil Chue- Hong, Ross Gardler, Andy McGregor, Owen Stephens,  Paul Walk and Scott Wilson.
Read posts from the event about collective intelligence and how technology […]

Posted in Topics: Humanities, News, Preservation and archiving, Scholarly publishing, Technology, eResearch, education, higher education

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Not Too Late to Submit for OR09

It’s not too late to submit a proposal for Open Repositories 2009! The deadline for general conference proposals has been extended to February 20th, 2009, which means you still have time.
The Open Repositories conference draws a diverse, international crowd - a mix of programmers, librarians, system architects, repository managers, and others. Whether you’re from the […]

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CALL for “Fedora Day” at OR09 Proposals

Ithaca, NY  Fedora Commons invites you to submit proposals for the next Fedora User Group Meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Open Repositories 2009 conference. We invite developers, researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for presentations describing their experiences implementing and using Fedora, or developing software associated with Fedora. The Fedora program committee is currently soliciting proposals […]

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