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 […]

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.
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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 […]

Chicago, Ill Following a successful spring web seminar series the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that they will offer a fall 2009/spring 2010 series of web seminars on institutional repositories with support from the Berkeley Electronic Press. The series opens on Sept. 23 with a session on the latest key […]

Oxford, UK After the successful Fedora-EU meeting in Aarhus, September last year, we invite you to join us this year in Oxford, on December 8, 2009. Numerous people were calling for this event, and we are particularly grateful for the support of Fedora-UK&I and the local team in Oxford (http://www.dresnet.net) who are sponsors of the […]

Mountainview, CA Save the date! You are cordially invited to join Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and host George Washington University–Sept. 24, 2009 from 8:30 am-5:00 pm with a networking reception to immediately follow–for a day focused on open computing solutions and best practices in the digital preservation and archiving space. […]

San Francisco, CA The Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting will be taking place October 7-9, 2009 in San Francisco. Thought-leaders and solution providers in the areas of data curation, data management of eScience content, preservation, repositories, and storage technologies will be presenting Wednesday and Thursday. Collaborative working groups are scheduled on […]

Tokyo, Japan The DRFIC Steering Committee is welcoming poster submissions in all areas relevant to digital repository and open access. The Conference will be held December 3-4, 2009 in Tokyo.
http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/DRFIC2009/index_en.php
DRFIC 2009 will provide a place in the Asia Pacific Region to discuss academic communication and the Open Access Movement which is a broader theme than […]

New Delhi, India TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), New Delhi, India will host the International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) ”Shaping the Information Paradigm” in New Delhi February 23 – 26 2010 at the Conference at India Habitat Centre. A call for participation may be found here: http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl/callpaper.php
The rapid growth of information technology has created enormous opportunities in the growth […]

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 […]