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 […]

Chicago. Ill Paul Gearon, DuraSpace Technical Lead and Developer, is the technical guru behind the Mulgara project (now available in version 2.1.2), a DuraSpace- sponsored technology focused on providing highly scalable semantic technologies. His semantic Web experience extends from data storage to ontology modeling and rules systems. In a recent interview Gearon referred to a […]

Lisbon, Portugal Source code is now available from RODA, Repositório de Objectos Digitais Autênticos, an initiative of the National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT) supported by the eGovernment of Portugal which has been established to support its activity in information and communication technologies to improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of public services.
Andrew Woods, DuraSpace […]

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 […]

by Thornton Staples, Director of Community Outreach and Alliances, DuraSpace Now that DSpace and Fedora have combined forces, we are beginning to bring together our community outreach activities to take advantage of both of our efforts. Chris Wilper and Brad McClean are working together on the developer community side of things, and Valerie Hollister and […]

By Chris Wilper, Technical Lead and Developer, DuraSpace Fedora Commons hosted a very successful Developer Open House at OR09 earlier this summer. Thanks to all who attended and participated. Through this formal session and in on-the-fly hallway discussions we got some great ideas on how to improve developer participation. As the developer-community around Fedora and DuraSpace continues […]