This summary of key findings from the Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report was provided by Jarret Cummings, Special Assistant to the President, EDUCAUSE. Traveling to the EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver Nov. 3-6, 2009? Please visit DuraSpace at the Sun booth and plan on attending the DuraSpace, JA-SIG, Kuali, Sakai reception.
Boulder, CO, Washington, […]

Ithaca, NY Cornell University Library is pleased to announce a $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish and support the national networking of biomedical researchers. The two-year grant is led by the University of Florida, with Cornell University and Indiana University as major partners.
VIVO, the technology supporting the network, builds […]

Ithaca NY, Mountain View, CA Join presenters Jennifer McLennan, SPARC, Lisa Brooks, IssueLab (http://www.issuelab.org), Bryan Beecher, Director, Computing and Network Services, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR), University of Michigan, and Erik Mitchell, IT Development Librarian Z. Smith Reynolds Library (http://digitalforsyth.org) for a free DuraSpace/Sun/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar, “SPARC OA […]

Washington, DC Less than one week from today, more than 200 sites around the globe will mark Open Access Week 2009. The concept of Open Access is based on the simple idea that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. Research institutes, colleges, universities, and advocacy organizations everywhere will host events or […]

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 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 […]

NITLE (http://www.nitle.org/), a community-based non-profit initiative, is offering a pre-conference workshop on “Manakin: Developing New Interfaces with the DSpace Interface Toolkit” on November 3, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. For more information or to register go to http://www.educause.edu/E2009/EDUCAUSE2009/Seminar12PManakinDevelopingNew/176004 .

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada The Ann of Green Gables hat (with braids) was in short supply in local gift shops as Fedora Commons developers and repository managers converged on Charlottetown, PEI, Canada for the second Red Island Repository Institute (RIRI). Prince Edward Island is well-known for its red dirt and also for Lucy Maud Montgomery who […]

College Station, Texas Repositories are being deployed in a variety of environments (education, research, science, cultural heritage) and contexts (national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal).  Regardless of setting, context or scale, repositories are increasingly expected to operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities.  The many repository […]

Washington, DC, Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA How long is long enough for our collective national digital heritage to be available and accessible? The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and DuraSpace have announced that they will launch a one-year pilot program to test the use of cloud technologies to enable […]