Washington, D.C. If you cross Jeff Bezos’, Amazon CEO, “Two Pizza Team Rule” with what David Flanders, Project Manager, The Bloomsbury Colleges, and organizer of the summer of 2008 “Repository Road Shows,” compares to “Penny Universities” of the 18th century that were often convened in taverns, or to the work life of Shakespeare who more […]

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 […]

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 […]

San Diego, CA The iRODS 1.1 storage module for Fedora has been tested and now is ready for release. The software, both irodsLowLevel.jar and Jargon.jar, can be downloaded
from: https://www.irods.org/index.php/Fedora
iRODS™ stands for i Rule Oriented Data Systems. This data grid software system being developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Storage Resource Broker […]

The Mulgara development community is pleased to announce the release of Mulgara v2.0.0. Mulagara software is a scalable RDF database written entirely in Java.
Mulgara can be downloaded from the project website at:
http://mulgara.org/download.html
This release marks the end of the development process that occurred through v2.0.0-alpha and v2.0.0-beta. Version 2.0.0 introduces:
-SPARQL querying.
-A new Connection API.
-Significantly better […]

London, UK The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has opened an Ideascale web site to encourage discussion towards defining repositories to feed into JISC repositories architecture work. To manage this discussion JISC is trying out Ideascale which is designed to “crowdsource” ideas, or manage large, distributed collaboration among undefined groups of people using Web 2.0 […]

Ithaca NY Fedora Commons is one of several Supporting Organizations for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 that will be held November 17 and 18 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan (an initiative of the National Institute of Informatics), is hosting Librarians, researchers, funders, […]

Ithaca, NY A new web site provides easy-to-use access to the tools and standards that power the NSDL. The NCore (http://ncore.nsdl.org) next-generation, open source digital library framework based on Fedora Commons open source repository software provide users, developers, information managers and decision-makers with systems for description, organization, interrelation, and annotation of resources. Other tools and […]

The Hague, Netherlands Attendees rated the first Dutch Fedora User Meeting held on June 19, 2008 as a successful venture with discussions underway to make this meeting an annual event. The meeting was hosted by the DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) project. Some participants requested that Fedora Dutch User meetings be held up to […]

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 […]