Rome, Italy This fall the IADIS–International Association for Development of the Information Society–will hold it’s annual conference in Rome, Italy from November 19-21, 2009. Conference organizers have announced that the keynote speaker will be Daniel Schwabe, Professor, Department of Informatics, Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. The call for papers is available here: […]

Washington, D.C. Code{4}lib (http://www.code4lib.org/) fosters community and shares information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. The Maryland and Washington, D.C. area code{4}lib group is hosting a joint meeting (http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/MDC) with the DC Fedora Users Group on Aug. 5, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the National Agricultural […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Join this live web event on Wednesday, June 17 at 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET. DSpace and Fedora are two of the largest open source software platforms for managing and providing access to digital content, with a combined global community of more than 700 instances including national libraries, research […]

San Francisco, CA Digital preservation is considered broadly as a continuum of intentions and activities leading to long-lived digital assets that can be used, re-used, and re-imagined in conventional and novel contexts now and into the future. The theme of the iPRES 2009 conference is “Moving into the mainstream, enabling our digital future. The deadline  […]

Oxford, UK The 5th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) e-Science conference will be held in Oxford, UK from Dec 9-11. This conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling […]

Boston, MA Join a free “All About Repositories” web seminar sponsored by Sun, Fedora Commons, DSpace and SPARC on June 3, 2009 that will focus on the popular DSpace open source software for creating an institutional repository. Currently there are over 500 organizations using DSpace to enable access to their research output and other content. […]

Tune in for live webcasts from OR09 featuring Sandy Payette, Michele Kimpton, Bradley McLean, and Chris Wilper who will discuss new directions for DuraSpace, DSpace and Fedora Commons on May 20 and 21, 2009 from 8:30-11:30 ET:
May 20th: http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/stream/support/or09_052009/
May 21st: http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/stream/support/or09_052109/

Charlottetown, CA Register now for the 2009 Red Island Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island July 20-24.
Reserve your spot at the Fedora-focused Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island, one of Canada’s premiere travel destinations known for its sandy beaches, golfing, seafood and iconic red dirt roads. The 1-week hands-on workshop will be led by Chris […]

Hull, UK The Open Repositories 2009 Conference (OR09), to be held in Atlanta next week will see the launch of a Fedora Commons Solutions Community around the idea of a “Scholars Workbench.”  If you will be attending the conference please come along to the inaugural Birds of a Feather (BOF) session which will be advertised […]

Milan, Italy Registration for ELPUB 2009, to be held in Milan (Italy) June
10-12, 2009 is open and early bird fees are available until May 10.
To find out more about the meeting, to register, and to learn about accommodations and travel options, please visit http://www.elpub.net.
ELPUB has a reputation for providing a relaxed yet stimulating venue for […]