Ithaca, NY A maintenance release that fixes several bugs present in Fedora 2.2.1 is now available. In addition, the release includes key improvements to the journaling and policy enforcement modules. Download the 2.2.2 Release Notes for more detail.
Key improvements include:
• Policy Enforcement
Feature #1743769: Multiple Owner id Support
Fedora’s bundled XACML engine can now act on policies […]

Aarhus, Denmark DORSDL2 will be held on September 18, 2008, in Aarhus, Denmark. The meeting is being organized in conjunction with the 12th European Conference On Research And Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries.
Digital libraries and digital repositories are–in many ways–two sides of the same coin. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from both fields, […]

Ithaca, NY The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) NCore team has announced the release of an open source generic version of the NSDL Search and NDR Interactions MediaWiki extensions and WordPressMU plugins that power the NSDL Expert Voices blogosphere and NSDL Wiki. Download the plugins here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204090
http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/NCore
NCore technologies and standards replace NSDL’s original metadata records-based data […]

Fedora Day at Open Repositories 2008 will be held on April 3, 2008 and brings 32 Fedora project leaders and developers together to share their work with some of the 400+ OR08 attendees. The Fedora Day Program Committee is chaired by Richard Greene, Manager, RIDIR, REMAP and RepoMMan Projects at the University of Hull. Presentations […]

San Francisco, CA The Topaz Project hosted developers from Mulgara, Fedora Commons, and Topaz on March 5-6, 2008 for a series of design meetings and discussions based on Mulgara’s XA2 Storage Layer.
Paul Gearon, Mulagara, presented an overview of how Mulgara’s storage currently works. It consists of a “string pool” (mapping numbers to URIs and […]

Paris, France The Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BnF) with it’s novel architecture based on the visual concept of four open books standing upright and facing each to make an interior square in downtown Paris, is built on seven centuries of history and scholarship in five locations. Vast collections include rare and ancient texts as well […]

Stockholm, Sweden The National Library of Sweden will host a Scandinavian Fedora Users Group Meeting on June 24-25, 2008. Meeting details and a call for proposals will follow. Contact Eva Müller for more information.

Ihtaca, NY A paper by Dean B. Krafft, Aaron Birkland, and Ellen J. Cramer that provides details about NCore—an open source architecture and software platform for creating flexible, collaborative digital libraries—is now available. This paper will be presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA.
NCore was developed by the National […]

Ithaca, NY Neil Beagrie, a leading expert on digital preservation and curation with an international reputation across the archive, library, science and research sectors in the long-term management of digital assets, will join Sandy Payette, Executive Director, and Eddie Shin, Senior Software Developer, Fedora Commons, in delivering plenary lectures at “Fedora Day”—the Fedora User Group […]

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