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 […]
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Attn. New England DuraSpace Community: Preservation and Archiving Seminar & Networking Reception, Northeastern U, December 10, 2009
Friday, November 20th, 2009 9:57 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to Host “Digital Repositories, Data Curation, and The Cloud” Jan. 28-29
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 2:48 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
CALL: JASIG 2010’s Deadline Extended
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 9:46 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Registration Available for Final Four “All About Repositories” 2009 Web Seminars
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 1:43 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Registration for the final four DuraSpace/Sun/SPARC 2009 “All About Repositories” web seminars is open. Topics include DuraSpace solution communities, open storage SAM architectures, DuraCloud Pilot Project information and how to make open scholarship happen with Creative Commons liscensing (Jan. 2010). You may register for any or all of these free web […]
On the Road with DuraSpace in November
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 2:16 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA DuraSpace staff members will be speaking about Fedora Commons, DSpace, and DuraCloud during sessions, press briefings, on the exhibit floor and in hallways this November:
EDUCAUSE, Nov. 3-6, 2009, Denver, CO–Michele Kimpton and Carol Minton Morris will be at the Sun booth and at a cocktail party with DuraSpace, JA-SIG, Kuali, Sakai […]
British Library “Subject Repositories” International Conference, Jan. 28-29, 2010
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 10:35 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
London, UK The Subject Repositories Conference, which is the first of its kind, will explore the development of subject repositories worldwide and will see the launch of Economists Online, the key output of an EC-funded subject repository project managed by the Nereus consortium of top European economics libraries. Nereus members will showcase this subject repository […]
Top Five Reasons to Plan on Attending OR2010
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 9:43 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Madrid, Spain In the tradition of past Open Repositories conferences, the new Fifth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories 2010 (OR2010) web site promises more opportunities to explore the challenges faced by user communities and others in the emerging repository-enabled information landscape from July 6 -9, 2010. The site also points out the top five […]
CALL: IASSIST 2010–Social Data and Social Networking “Connecting Social Science Communities across the Globe”
Friday, October 16th, 2009 1:07 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Ithaca, NY IASSIST 2010, the 36th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) will be hosted by the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) and Cornell University Library (CUL) and will be held at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, USA, June 1-4, 2010.
The theme of […]
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TOMORROW: DuraSpace/Sun/SPARC “All About Repositories” SPARC OA Week Kick-off Presentation and DuraSpace OA Week Winners
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 3:40 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Posted in Topics: DuraSpace digest, Events, Open source, Preservation and archiving, eResearch, education, higher education
INVITATION: Traveling to EDUCAUSE Nov. 3-6 in Denver?
Monday, October 5th, 2009 10:47 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Ithaca, NY This year’s EDUCAUSE Conference promises to offer IT professionals in higher education new options for challenging times in a 4-day face-to-face, and concurrent online conference. This year virtual attendees may register for EDUCAUSE 2009 Online, where you will have the chance to learn and network with colleagues without leaving your campus.
http://www.educause.edu/E2009
If you are […]






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