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 […]

By Sandy Payette

It’s been an exciting summer with the release of Fedora 3.0, Mulgara 2.0, and the kickoff of the new collaboration of Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation.
In July, Michele Kimpton, Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation, and I stood on the steps of the Library of Congress to shake hands as a symbol […]

Ithaca, NY Today Fedora Commons released version 3.0 of the popular Fedora software that completes all general release features. Dan Davis, Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons, explained, “We are pleased to offer a Fedora 3.0 that is a foundational step towards a model-driven content architecture.” He went on to say, “Users will find it […]

On September 10, 2008 The DSpace Foundation announced the release of DSpace version 1.5.1. This release contains numerous bug fixes from the 1.5.0 release as well as some enhancements. For more details on the release, click here.

By Dan Davis Fedora 3.0 was released at the end of July closely followed by a maintenance update of Fedora 2.2.3. Our next efforts focus on three fronts: (1) improving Fedora Common’s software, (2) dramatically increasing support for light-weight Web applications and (3) building an open source software development community. Not surprisingly all three […]

Sandy Payette and Michele Kimpton on the steps of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. where a Joint Information Systems Committee’s (JISC) Common Repository Interface Group (CRIG) “RepoCamp” was held on July 25, 2008. Photograph by David Flanders.
Washington, D.C. Today two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access […]

The July/August issue of The DSpace Foundation’s monthly publication “NewSpace” features an interview with Baoyao Zhou from HP Labs China about the Virtual Olympic Museum and in-depth DSpace feature focus, “Indexing Full Text Documents”.