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 […]

London, UK Dates are being finalized for Developer Happiness Days, a Fedora-related event that will be held in London in mid-February 2009–mark your calendars now!
Developer Happiness Days, sponsored by JISC (tag: dev8D), “Is a way of saying ‘thank you’ to developers for all the hard work they do.  Of course the question is: how do […]

Ithaca, NY Fedora 3.1 is a minor feature release that includes several bug fixes. Most notably, when using Mulgara, SPARQL is now supported via the repository’s RISearch interface, and the repository’s memory footprint has improved significantly. Read Fedora 3.1 release notes here.
Fedora 2.2.4 is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs and improves reliability […]

Ithaca, NY You are invited to join your colleagues from the DSpace, Fedora Commons, JA-SIG, Kuali, and Sakai communities–community open source software by higher education, for higher education–for a reception on October 29th, 2008, 6:15pm - 8pm in Room W307AB of the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, FL. This is an opportunity to talk […]

Ithaca, NY Exciting plans and new directions have emerged since DSpace and Fedora Commons came together to investigate ways to better serve repository communities by developing collaborative initiatives earlier this year. If you are planning to attend either the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 (Nov. 17-18), or Sun PASIG Fall 2008 Meeting (Nov. 19-20) in Baltimore, MD, […]

Ithaca, NY and Los Alamos, NM Over the past two years the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered international experts from the publishing, web, library, repository, and eScience communities to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of Web resources.  These standards provide the foundation for applications and services […]

Ithaca, NY In late July Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation announced plans to combine strengths to work on joint initiatives that will more closely align their organizations’ goals and better serve both open source repository communities. Find out what’s been happening since then in this 51-minute discussion with Paul Miller, Talis. Listen to the […]

Cambridge, MA Mark R. Diggory is a software engineer who is on the DSpace 2.0 development team. He provides observations and details about combined DSpace/Fedora collaborative efforts and opportunities in a recent blog post that reports on “new synergies between DSpace and Fedora.” Diggory’s blog is entitled “Sapere Aude!” which means “Dare to […]

Ithaca, NY  A cash prize of $2000, sponsored by Microsoft Research, has been awarded to Ross McFarlane, University of Liverpool, for his “OREsome” entry. The challenge prototypes were to focus on OAI-ORE functionality at the end-user level (e.g. in a browser) and the potential for the prototype to promote ORE within and beyond the repository community.
ORE wishes to thank David Flanders […]