Sydney, Australia After the recent release of Muradora 1.3 that included an all-in-one installation package, Chi Nguyen has announced that the DRAMA team at Macquarie University will no longer work full time on Muradora development effective July 1, 2008 in order to undertake a new area of work. Muradora will be developed and maintained as […]

Stockholm, Sweden Organizer Eva Müller, Head of the National Library of Sweden (NLS) Digital Library Department, introduced Thornton Staples, Fedora Commons Director of Community Strategy and Outreach who offered an introduction and update on Fedora Commons during the June 25 “Infrastructure for Future Research” meeting at the National Library of Sweden. Staples joined other presenters […]

Ithaca, NY At the Sun PASIG meeting in May several interested members of both the DSpace and Fedora communities gathered to explore how the two projects might work together to benefit their stakeholders. On June 10,2008 the two groups hosted an open webcast discussion to identify ways to advance the missions of both organizations […]

Washington, DC Higher-education leader David Shulenburger, Science Commons head John Wilbanks, and marketing communications strategist Bob Witeck are keynote speakers slated for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 in Baltimore on November 17-18. The international gathering, organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) in cooperation with SPARC Europe, and SPARC Japan (a […]

View of Pittsburgh from the Duquesne Incline at night. There are five funicular or cliff railways in the United States. Two of these inclined railways are located in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, PA At a conference where ideas about the theory and practice of information engineering in digital libraries would be presented, it was appropriate to […]

Ithaca, NY — The second beta release of the popular Fedora software is now available for testing. The second beta version of Fedora 3.0 completes most of the features planned for the general release of the software. As Dan Davis, Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons, explains, “This release is ready for early adopters to use […]

One strategy for classifying the millions of galaxies mapped by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was to open the Galaxy Zoo, invite the public to look at the new creatures, and give them tools to record their observations.
Pittsburgh, PA When Alex Szalay is not considering improved strategies for managing and sharing big data, and […]

London, UK Join the RepoCamp ‘08 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. on Friday July 25th 2008. For information about how to participate click here.
This is the final event of the JISC Common Repository Interfaces Group (CRIG) Roadshow due to head out on July 12 for a 2 1/2 week, multi-city event […]

Ithaca, NY The June 9, 2008 issue of Fedora Commons HatCheck is packed with news, developments and accomplishments. The current issue features two key improvements. You may now download and print a PDF version of HatCheck for easy reading or redistribution at events and meetings, and an archive is now available that will […]

Ithaca NY & Boston, MA Tomorrow DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons will be meeting with a few key folks from each community to begin the discussions on identifying ways the communities can work together to advance the missions of both organizations and communities.  This will be the first in many discussions with our communities in […]