Ithaca, NY Today’s web seminars will also be made available online.
DuraSpace Updates from Fedora Commons and DSpace: Web Seminar, Sept. 30
The next Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:00am PT. Register at http://www.education-webevents.com/.
DuraSpace flagship open source repository platforms are preparing to release new versions of Fedora […]

Ithaca, NY The SciencePipes (http://sciencepipes.org/alpha/home/) team has announced a new release of the system. In this version the new pipe (workflow) editor has been deployed. See a demo of that functionality at http://sciencepipes.org/docs/demos/alpha/functionality/new-editor/. The system is built using the open source Kepler system with plans to add a Fedora Commons Repository for data storage.
The building […]

Ithaca, NY How do institutions decide what to save, and who makes those decisions? What are some current ideas around establishing review processes? What are the interrelated implications for long-term sustainability? These are some of the questions that come up when knowledge management groups, organizations and institutions reflect on which parts of their heritage of […]

Published by SPARC on September 24, 2009
Washington, DC – Last year, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary were among a handful of institutions that established pools of money, through their libraries, to cover the cost of open-access journal fees. This approach – aimed at supporting a new academic publishing model […]

Gothenburg, Sweden The DSpace User Group Meeting to be held Oct. 14-16 in Gothenburg, Sweden will serve as a gathering point for the DSpace community of users, administrators and developers to discuss DSpace platform possibilities, and to learn more about the new DuraSpace organization. TODAY is the last day to register for the meeting: http://dsug09.ub.gu.se/index.php/dsug/dsug09/schedConf/registration.
Participants […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA The DSpace committers group has announced two new additions to the group: Jeffrey Trimble and Larry  Stone. Please join us in welcoming them!
Jeffrey Trimble is currently the Systems Librarian at Youngstown State  University in Youngstown, Ohio. His responsibilities range from  tracing network cabling under the carpet to Unix administration on  their […]

Washington, DC Please join Michele Kimpton, Chief Business Officer of DuraSpace, for a WebEx web seminar sponsored by the Library of Congress (LOC) NDIIPP on Sept. 30, 2009. She will present an overview of the DuraCloud platform, currently in development. Her presentation will include details about the current DuraCloud pilot program in progress with New […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA While many savvy information managers and developers know that DSpace (http://dspace.org/), part of the DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org) product line, is the software of choice for academic, non-profit and commercial organizations that are building open access repositories, there are still some who may wonder about what DSpace is, and what’s “under the hood.” […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA If you been a part of establishing or maintaining a unique digital repository that provides open access to a collection, or showcasing your repository’s content  DuraSpace wants to hear your story. Please consider sharing your passion and knowledge of collecting, curating, managing and sharing digital repository resources by entering the DuraSpace/SPARC […]

Mountain View, CA The next Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:00am PT. Register at http://www.education-webevents.com/.
DuraSpace flagship open source repository platforms are preparing to release new versions of Fedora (late 2009) and DSpace (Oct. 2009). Please join presenters Chris Wilper and Brad McLean for an overview […]