Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA With pride in the community participation that powers open source repository platform development, DuraSpace and the Fedora Commons Repository Project are pleased to announce that Kai Strnad will serve as Community Release Manager for the upcoming release of Fedora Repository 3.3.
Kai is a Software Engineer with FIZ Karlsruhe, and has been […]

Ithaca, NY Cornell University Library is pleased to announce a $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish and support the national networking of biomedical researchers. The two-year grant is led by the University of Florida, with Cornell University and Indiana University as major partners.
VIVO, the technology supporting the network, builds […]

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CA The latest version of Islandora Virtual Box Image and Demo (version 1.0) is now available from UPEI Robertson Library. These documents and files allow users to install the complete Islandora stack running in a VirtualBox environment. The most recent VirtualBox version will always be available from this page:
http://islandora.ca/virtualbox
including basic instructions […]

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 […]

Ithaca, NY The very active, global, Fedora Commons Repository community of software developers contribute to the core software development process. In addition they also develop complete applications on top of Fedora that address particular use cases or application areas. The “Getting Started with Fedora” Guide is designed to offer new users, or potential users, a […]

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 […]

Baltimore, MD The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) i2 Working Group surveyed repository managers and developers to determine the current practices and needs of the repository community regarding institutional identifiers. Results from the survey will inform a set of use cases that will be shared with the community, and that are expected to drive the […]

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 […]

“The TDL has completed a key phase of development on the Texas Learning Object Repository (TxLOR), performing a demonstration of its first iteration of the system to UT TeleCampus representatives.” Read more at
http://www.tdl.org/2009/09/tdl-technical-team-completes-early-txlor-development-phase/.