Oxford, UK The Forced Migration Online website provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of refugees and forced migrants worldwide. The project is coordinated by a team based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford and is accessed by a wide variety of users including practitioners, policy […]

Chicago The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is offering three fee-based webinars on institutional repositories beginning in April. The sessions introduce participants to the IR “movement” and provide tools for decision-making about the IR implementation and maintenance.  Future topics slated for fall 2009 include open access, intellectual property, copyright, consortial implementation and […]

The submission deadline for the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) to be held in Corfu, Greece Sept. 27-Oct. 2, 2009, has been extended. The new submission deadline is Saturday March 28, 2009 (GMT time zone).
Ιmportant Dates webpage, ECDL 2009 website: http://www.ecdl2009.eu.
The Paper Submission System for ECDL 2009 is open:
https://www.softconf.com/a/ecdl09/
Details about the submissions are available:
http://www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/submissions.php
The […]

Ithaca, NY  Of the 39 Respondents to the Fedora Commons Quick Check Poll for March 2009, 30.8 reported that they are investigating the use of Fedora 3.0 Repository software; 51.3% are in development, and; 17.9% are currently using the software in their operations. 71.1% are using, or plan to use, Fedora 3.0’s the API-M and/or […]

New York City Today, Mar 18, 2009, Sun is hosting the CommunityOne East conference at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City to announce Sun’s strategy and roadmap for its public cloud computing service. Dave Douglas and Lew Tucker are keynote speakers at the conference, and will unveil details about Sun’s strategy and roadmap […]

Linz, Austria The deadline for submissions of nominations to the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica is March 18, 2009.  If you would like to nominate a digital community  for important achievements as well as innovative artistic approaches towards web-based communities visit Ars Electronica prize categories and submit a nomination. This category focuses attention on the wide-ranging social and artistic impact of […]

Washington, D.C. During its three years of operations, the institutional repository at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has gathered and posted over 21,000 documents, which together with its hosted ETD collection make it the third largest institutional repository in the U.S. Usage records also indicate it is one of the busiest, serving up more than […]

Ithaca, NY Beginning this month, Fedora Commons will conduct brief polls entitled QuickCheck. The goal of this month’s QuickCheck is to learn more about Fedora 3.0 production implementations. Subsequent polls will cover a variety of topics. QuickCheck results will be distributed back to the Fedora Commons community online, in the Fedora Commons HatCheck newsletter, as […]

Ithaca, NY The submission date for proposals to the Fedora User Group at OR2009 is March 6, 2009. See the Call for Proposals,
https://or09.library.gatech.edu/fedora.php.
“We are very interested in proposals both for software
development projects (especially, but not limited to, open-source
software to be used with Fedora) and for interesting uses of Fedora. Any new tool, client or interface […]

At OR07 there was a well attended Birds of a Feather (BOF) session around the idea of setting up a bank of content models and disseminators for Fedora 2.0.  This process fell by the wayside as a formal content model architecture became part of the Fedora 3.o release.
There will be a BOF session at OR09 […]