Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA At the heart of any open source project are the people who come together to create innovative software. Today DuraSpace, a non-profit organization that combines Fedora Commons and DSpace technologies, announced a launch of their Solution Community program to extend participation in open source software development to strategic decision makers.
With over […]

Mountain View, CA Register today to join Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and host Northeastern University for an information-packed day focused on open computing solutions and best practices in the digital preservation and archiving space.
Duraspace will lead two breakout sessions–one focused on the DuraCloud service, and one about DuraSpace Solution Communities […]

This is the text of a press release from the University of California. Contact Patricia Cruise for more information.
Santa Barbara, CA Researchers at the University of California have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network for earth and environmental scientists that will support […]

Denver, CO Join us at the All-Alliance Conference on Friday, January 29th for an exciting day of Cloud-, Data Durability-, and Repository-focused keynotes offered by Richard Katz, Vice President of EDUCAUSE and founding director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR); and Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Alliances and Director of the […]

New York, NY  The proposal deadline for Jasig’s March 2010 conference has been extended until Wednesday, November 25th.  If you are doing innovative work in technology for higher education, the organizers welcome you to submit a presentation!
We want to hear about new projects, large and small, and new technologies that will have an impact on […]

Earlier this month EDUCAUSE 2009 was held in the midst of concern over shrinking budgets and increasing IT needs at institutions of higher education. Several sessions and many conversations centered around how to take advantage of economies represented by new technologies such as cloud computing and distributed communication tools.
This interest was reflected in a “Point […]

By Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Alliances and Director of the Fedora Project, DuraSpace
The purpose of the Scholars Workbench group and other solutions community groups is to create opportunities for people who are interested in topics that strongly relate to the DuraSpace mission (everything that relates to the problem of the durability of […]

SPARC Alliance for Taxpayer Access press release. Contact Jennifer McLennan for more information (202) 296-2296
Washington, DC  “For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible,” is the message that forty one Nobel Prize-winning scientists in medicine, physics, and chemistry gave to […]

College Park, MD A meeting was held at King’s College, London, on Oct. 26-27 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities:
arts-humanities.net (http://www.arts-humanities.net/)
ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/)
CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/)
centerNet (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/)
DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/)                                                                                                                                                               NoC - Network of Expert Centres in Great Britain […]

Excerpted from: “Sun Microsystems Showcases Open Source Technologies at Educause 2009″ Denver, CO Columbia University Libraries has selected Sun’s Storage Archive Manager (SAM) solution to expand its digital library (academiccommons.columbia.edu). The Libraries is combining the SAM management software with Sun servers and storage and tape technologies to enable a coherent and comprehensive technology infrastructure that […]