Ithaca, NY, Boulder, CO The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is pleased to announce the premiere release of NSDL EduPak 1.0. Specifically designed for education, EduPak packages technology for digital storage, access and workflow into a convenient bundle designed to to jump start the essential “behind-the-scenes” framework that enables innovation in teaching and learning. Download […]

The Digital Humanities Observatory will hold a symposium in Second Life, “The Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint,” on Tuesday March 31, 2009. The day-long event will feature talks by John Fitzgerald (UCC), Ruth Hegarty (RIA), John Lavagnino, (NUIG), and Brad Scott (Publishing Consultant).
Full details can be found here: http://dho.ie/irishimprint
The DHO, in conjunction with […]

Ithaca, NY This issue of the Fedora Commons HatCheck newsletter features overviews of technical and community developments as well as trends and information about how new kinds of projects are using Fedora.
Read HatCheck online here. Subscribe to HatCheck RSS  here. Back issues are available here.  HatCheck is a quarterly newsletter published by Fedora Commons by and for communities of Fedora users, […]

Ithaca, NY, Boulder, CO  NSDL EduPak, an open source digital library services platform for education, is a publicly available, lightweight version of NCore (http://NCore.nsdl.org), established in 2008 as an open-source digital library platform of technology and standards that create a dynamic information layer on top of library resources. The NSDL EduPak 1.0 release is set […]

By Chris Wilper The development team is working hard to finalize Fedora 3.2 and has now set a release date of May 5th.  Highlights for this release include a new, web-based GUI for repository administrators and improved storage pluggability, including Amazon S3 support.  Many other improvements and bug fixes will be included.  For a complete […]

By Sandy Payette, Executive Director Fedora Commons Welcome to the first issue of HatCheck in 2009. We hope that you have found our quarterly newsletter interesting and informative, and we encourage you to contact us if you have interesting Fedora news to report or events to announce!
A big focus of Fedora Commons this year will […]

Ithaca, NY For better or for worse many of us seem to enjoy tweeting kernals of information in 140 characters or less. The Pew/Internet and American Life Project reports:
11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates […]

By Thornton Staples In my travels in recent months to conferences and meetings, I have been reminded again and again that Fedora provides a robust platform for the development of a wide variety of applications. While our largest areas of use continue to be academic and national libraries and archives, it appears that our fastest […]

By Thornton Staples A Wunderkammer, or chamber of curiosities, was a precursor to the modern museum. During the Rennaissance kings, noblemen and rich burghers with an interest in the arts and sciences collected objects of varying kinds: stones precious and semi-precious, fossils, pieces of art and exotic artifacts. They stored and displayed them in purpose-designed […]

Brookline, MA The Jewish Women’s Archive (http://jwa.org/) aims to “uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women” by providing public access to most of their materials. This project is using cloud storage to keep operations within their budget.  They plan to back up additional content, which includes many […]