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 […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Small archives represent the long tail of cultural heritage. Most of us are coping with inadequate resources available for addressing our primary missions, and lack the time, staff, skills, and other resources to address long-term access to that cultural heritage. This includes the challenge of locating and securing tools and resources […]

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 […]

Washington, DC Less than one week from today, more than 200 sites around the globe will mark Open Access Week 2009. The concept of Open Access is based on the simple idea that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. Research institutes, colleges, universities, and advocacy organizations everywhere will host events or […]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA To celebrate the online development and dissemination of diverse, often hidden digital assets, DuraSpace is pleased to announce three winners of the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest. The contest solicited examples of repositories that have made significant resources more available to help shape the global knowledge landscape. The winners and […]

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 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 […]

Ithaca, NY The SciencePipes (http://sciencepipes.org/alpha/home/) team has announced a new release of the system. In this version the new pipe (workflow) editor has been deployed. See a demo of that functionality at http://sciencepipes.org/docs/demos/alpha/functionality/new-editor/. The system is built using the open source Kepler system with plans to add a Fedora Commons Repository for data storage.
The building […]

Ithaca, NY How do institutions decide what to save, and who makes those decisions? What are some current ideas around establishing review processes? What are the interrelated implications for long-term sustainability? These are some of the questions that come up when knowledge management groups, organizations and institutions reflect on which parts of their heritage of […]