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CALL: “Shaping the Information Paradigm”–International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL)

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 […]

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Boosting Repository Functionality with Widgets

Plymouth, UK ICO3 Limited is a web technology company funded by JISC to develop a JISC Repository Aggregator demonstration web site that would enable users to search for, organize and submit information about a range of relevant repository information. As part of building that capacity ICO3 is testing a suite of repository web widgets.
Widgets are […]

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Drupal/Fedora Module from “Islandora”

Charlottetown, PEI Canada Drupal is a popular put-of-the-box open source content management platform that meets the needs of thousands of different types of web sites from community to news portals, from corporate sites to educational institutions, and from media sites to international sites. The University of Prince Edward Island’s (UPEI) Robertson Library has added Fedora […]

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Community Building Around Solution Areas

By Thornton Staples Developing community activities around Fedora Commons’ priority areas is one of our central functions as an organization. We are well placed to organize communities for development in a variety of areas, especially including development of the core software and application development in a variety of solution areas that have a natural affinity […]

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Mulgara 2.0.0 Release Now Available

The Mulgara development community is pleased to announce the release of Mulgara v2.0.0. Mulagara software is a scalable RDF database written entirely in Java.
Mulgara can be downloaded from the project website at:
http://mulgara.org/download.html
This release marks the end of the development process that occurred through v2.0.0-alpha and v2.0.0-beta. Version 2.0.0 introduces:
-SPARQL querying.
-A new Connection API.
-Significantly better […]

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Welcome to HatCheck: A Place to “Check Your Hat” and Learn More About Fedora Commons

Ithaca, NY ED Sandy Payette’s overview of Fedora Commons initiatives and activities

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Inspiration: The Open Learning Exchange Nepal

Ithaca, NYInspirational education initiative aims to improve learning in Nepal

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Engineering Punchlist

Ithaca, NY Dan Davis, Fedora Commons Chief Architect provides a look at the development roadmap

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