http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace The DuraSpace Blog publishes news & information from the Fedora Commons, DSpace, & Mulgara communities. You may subscribe to the RSS from this blog, and/or receive a monthly DuraSpace Blog Digest by subscribing to fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net. Contact Dir. of Marketing & Communications Carol Minton Morris (carolmmorris@duraspace.org) to contribute news or blog posts. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:23:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA At the heart of any open source project are the people who come together to create innovative software. Today DuraSpace, a non-profit organization that combines Fedora Commons and DSpace technologies, announced a launch of their Solution Community program to extend participation in open source software development ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/20/duraspace-reaches-out-to-decision-makers-through-open-source-development-process-with-launch-of-solution-communities/ Mountain View, CA Register today to join Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and host Northeastern University for an information-packed day focused on open computing solutions and best practices in the digital preservation and archiving space. Duraspace will lead two breakout sessions–one focused on the DuraCloud service, and ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/20/attn-new-england-duraspace-community-preservation-and-archiving-seminar-networking-reception-northeastern-u-december-10-2009/ This is the text of a press release from the University of California. Contact Patricia Cruise for more information. Santa Barbara, CA Researchers at the University of California have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network for earth and ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/18/dataone-to-deal-with-data-deluge/ Denver, CO Join us at the All-Alliance Conference on Friday, January 29th for an exciting day of Cloud-, Data Durability-, and Repository-focused keynotes offered by Richard Katz, Vice President of EDUCAUSE and founding director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR); and Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/17/colorado-alliance-of-research-libraries-to-host-%e2%80%9cdigital-repositories-data-curation-and-the-cloud%e2%80%9d-jan-28-29/ New York, NY  The proposal deadline for Jasig's March 2010 conference has been extended until Wednesday, November 25th.  If you are doing innovative work in technology for higher education, the organizers welcome you to submit a presentation! We want to hear about new projects, large and small, and new technologies that ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/17/call-jasig-2010s-deadline-extended/ Earlier this month EDUCAUSE 2009 was held in the midst of concern over shrinking budgets and increasing IT needs at institutions of higher education. Several sessions and many conversations centered around how to take advantage of economies represented by new technologies such as cloud computing and distributed communication tools. This interest ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/16/shining-a-light-on-cloud-computing-for-higher-ed/ By Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Alliances and Director of the Fedora Project, DuraSpace The purpose of the Scholars Workbench group and other solutions community groups is to create opportunities for people who are interested in topics that strongly relate to the DuraSpace mission (everything that relates to the ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/13/about-the-duraspace-scholars-workbench-solution-community/ Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Registration for the final four DuraSpace/Sun/SPARC 2009 "All About Repositories" web seminars is open. Topics include DuraSpace solution communities, open storage SAM architectures, DuraCloud Pilot Project information and how to make open scholarship happen with Creative Commons liscensing (Jan. 2010). You may register for any or ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/11/registrations-for-final-four-all-about-repositories-2009-web-seminars/ Ithaca, NY  DuraSpace open technologies, projects and partners are discussed and analyzed in press releases, reports, media, and numerous blogs. The following references are links to what others have been saying about DuraSpace–DSpace, Fedora Commons and our community–in 2009. Closer to home, DuraSpace open technology/open access news and events are reflected ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/11/duraspace-open-technologies-in-the-news/ SPARC Alliance for Taxpayer Access press release. Contact Jennifer McLennan for more information (202) 296-2296 Washington, DC  “For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible,” is the message that forty one Nobel Prize-winning scientists in medicine, ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/10/nobel-prize-winning-scientists-urge-congress-to-act-to-ensure-free-online-access-to-federally-funded-research-results/ College Park, MD A meeting was held at King's College, London, on Oct. 26-27 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities: arts-humanities.net (http://www.arts-humanities.net/) ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/) CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) centerNet (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/) DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/)                                                                                                                                                               NoC - Network of ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/10/promoting-an-open-digital-humanities-culture-chain-coalition-of-humanities-and-arts-infrastructures-and-networks/ Excerpted from: "Sun Microsystems Showcases Open Source Technologies at Educause 2009" Denver, CO Columbia University Libraries has selected Sun's Storage Archive Manager (SAM) solution to expand its digital library (academiccommons.columbia.edu). The Libraries is combining the SAM management software with Sun servers and storage and tape technologies to enable a coherent ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/11/09/implementing-change-at-columbia-university-libraries/ Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA DuraSpace staff members will be speaking about Fedora Commons, DSpace, and DuraCloud during sessions, press briefings, on the exhibit floor and in hallways this November: EDUCAUSE, Nov. 3-6, 2009, Denver, CO–Michele Kimpton and Carol Minton Morris will be at the Sun booth and at a cocktail party ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/29/on-the-road-with-duraspace-in-november/ This summary of key findings from the Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report was provided by Jarret Cummings, Special Assistant to the President, EDUCAUSE. Traveling to the EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver Nov. 3-6, 2009? Please visit DuraSpace at the Sun booth and plan on attending the DuraSpace, JA-SIG, ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/28/report-findings-trends-in-college-and-university-it/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/27/kai-strnad-fiz-karlsruhe-to-lead-fedora-repository-33-release/ In a press release posted to the SPARC-IR mailing list,  the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) became the founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). A full text of the release is below or you may visit https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/5212.html. October 23, 2009 OTTAWA/GHENT, BELGIUM - On October 21, CARL became ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/26/confederation-of-open-access-repositories/ London, UK The Subject Repositories Conference, which is the first of its kind, will explore the development of subject repositories worldwide and will see the launch of Economists Online, the key output of an EC-funded subject repository project managed by the Nereus consortium of top European economics libraries. Nereus members ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/25/british-library-subject-repositories-international-conference-jan-28-29-2010/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/23/top-five-reasons-to-plan-on-attending-or2010/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/21/nih-funds-cornell-universitys-vivo-project-to-discover-expertise-and-enable-collaborations/ Ithaca, NY IASSIST 2010, the 36th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) will be hosted by the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) and Cornell University Library (CUL) and will be held at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, USA, ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/16/call-iassist-2010-social-data-and-social-networking-connecting-social-science-communities-across-the-globe/