Atlanta, GA BibApp developer Tim Donohue won the $2,000. Open Repositories 2009 Developer Challenge prize with his entry “Mention-It” which is a simple javascript library that collects “mentions” of content held within an institutional repository (or personal blog) from anywhere on the Web. The “Mention-It” code is available on Google Code.
The second place winner, Rebecca Koesar, Emory University Library, was […]

Tune in for live webcasts from OR09 featuring Sandy Payette, Michele Kimpton, Bradley McLean, and Chris Wilper who will discuss new directions for DuraSpace, DSpace and Fedora Commons on May 20 and 21, 2009 from 8:30-11:30 ET:
May 20th: http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/stream/support/or09_052009/
May 21st: http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/stream/support/or09_052109/

Charlottetown, CA Register now for the 2009 Red Island Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island July 20-24.
Reserve your spot at the Fedora-focused Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island, one of Canada’s premiere travel destinations known for its sandy beaches, golfing, seafood and iconic red dirt roads. The 1-week hands-on workshop will be led by Chris […]

Hull, UK The Open Repositories 2009 Conference (OR09), to be held in Atlanta next week will see the launch of a Fedora Commons Solutions Community around the idea of a “Scholars Workbench.”  If you will be attending the conference please come along to the inaugural Birds of a Feather (BOF) session which will be advertised […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA — Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, have announced today that they will join their organizations to pursue a common mission.  Jointly, they will provide leadership and innovation in open source technologies for global […]

Ithaca, NY Chris Wilper, Technical Lead for Fedora Commons Repository software, and the entire Fedora Commons Repository development team are pleased to announce the release of Fedora 3.2. This release includes many useful features and fixes, and should prove to be a major boon to your repository installation. With the help of the Fedora community […]

Rotterdam, Netherlands Infrae (http://infrae.com/), a company that builds software on request and provides integration, customization, and support services for public and private sector customers throughout Europe, is pleased to announce the first public release of the MOAI Server (http://moai.infrae.com/). MOAI is a platform that aggregates input from disparate sources and republishes it via the Open […]

Milan, Italy Registration for ELPUB 2009, to be held in Milan (Italy) June
10-12, 2009 is open and early bird fees are available until May 10.
To find out more about the meeting, to register, and to learn about accommodations and travel options, please visit http://www.elpub.net.
ELPUB has a reputation for providing a relaxed yet stimulating venue for […]

Ithaca, NY The Physics ePrint Archive (http://arXiv.org/) was developed by Paul Ginsparg at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1991. Ginsparg is now a Cornell University faculty member where arXiv.org continues to provide Open Access to 534,588 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. Several notable open source applications enabled […]

Charlottetown, Canada  The Robertson Library Islandora Team at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) has announced that Islandora beta release 2009-04-03  has been made available. This version of Islandora is compatible with Drupal 6.x and Fedora 3.x.
Find more information and download this release from the Islandora Fedora-Drupal website http://vre.upei.ca/dev/islandora.
Documentation can be found on the […]