Hull, UK The next meeting of the Fedora UK & Ireland User Group will be held at the University of York on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.  Please mark the date in your calendars.  More information will be available closer to the event.  It is hoped that Fedora Commons senior staff will attend the meeting.  If […]

Printed scholarly publications in the main reading room at the New York Public Library. © 2008 Carol Minton Morris
Baltimore, MD SPARC IR morning “Campus Publishing Strategies” sessions focused on making use of, and understanding the evolution of scholarly publishing as a platform for scholarly discourse as well as a process for developing intellectual products. […]

The Bromo-Seltzer Tower in Baltimore, Maryland. © by James G. Howes, 2008.
Baltimore, MD Bromo-Seltzer was invented in this town by Captain Isaac Emerson. To celebrate his tummy-taming elixir he built a clock tower in 1911 that was intended to look like the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The Baltimore version included a marvelous 51-foot lighted […]

London, England The next FedoraEU meeting will be held in conjunction with the DeveloperHappinessDays in London Feb 9-13, 2009. The Fedora meeting will take place on Friday the 13th of February (for good luck!). Please save the date, more information will be avaialable soon. If you are interested in “Developer Happiness Days” dev8D please […]

St. Augustin, Germany As new research gets underway it is common for scientists to begin online data collection and collaboration as part of their investigations. The digital products they produce as a result of research activities range from raw data sets to early versions of articles, whitepapers and correspondence. These research products are often lost […]

Atlanta, GA Repositories are being deployed in a variety of environments (education, research, science, cultural heritage) and contexts (national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal). Regardless of setting, context or scale, repositories are increasingly expected to operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities. It is the aim […]

Ithaca, NY, Cambridge, MA The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a planning grant to the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons in support of their work to ensure durability and long-term access of scholarly research output and digital collections. This comes after the two largest providers of open source software for digital […]

Vancouver, CA The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Second International PKP Conference, July 8 – 10, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  Session proposals will be accepted until January 15, 2009.
Preconference Workshops on July 8 include:
Networkshop - Editors/Publishers:  John Willinsky, Rowly Lorimer
Networkshop - Software Developers/Technical Experts: […]

Oxford, UK The new “Digital Library” tab on the Forced Migration Online (FMO) web site provides a global community of policy makers, researchers, and students with direct access to “over 9,000 full-text documents and journal articles about human displacement in electronic format which can be searched, read online and printed as required. The documents include […]

Saint Louis, MO The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBOT) has been in operation since 1859 and has evolved as a center for research and education. The MBOT TROPICOS collection contains all of the nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen tropical plant data accumulated over 25 years. The system manages over one million scientific names, […]