The CRL Global Resources Network (GRN) and the New York Public Library are co-sponsoring a forum on “electronic media and the preservation of news.” The forum is open to members of CRL/GRN, the research community, the news media, publishers and other information providers. Conference details and registration are available here. Attendance for CRL members is gratis, but advance registration is […]

Aarhus, Denmark The first official Fedora EU User Group meeting will be held in Aarhus, Denmark, on Friday September 19, 2008 in conjunction with the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) conference.
For those who wish to, the meeting will start informally Thursday night
with dinner at a restaurant. Participation is free, including lunch and coffee Friday. […]

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, […]

Edinburgh, Scotland On Behalf of the organizing committee of the Edinburgh Repository Fringe (http://www.repositoryfringe.org) Les Carr and Theo Andrew, Repository Fringe Co-chairs, have announced two compelling keynote speakers who promise to challenge the community and stimulate discussion and directions for the future.
The Edinburgh Repostiory Fringe will be held during the “Preview Week” of the well-known  […]

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 […]

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 […]

You are invited to join a webevent at the Carnegie Foundation Teaching and Learning Commons focusing on open education resources, open source development, and open knowledge to be held June 16-19, 2008. More information is available here.
Advocates of open education resources, open source development, and open knowledge building all hope—even promise—to use and build on […]

Karlsruhe, Germany The Max Planck Digital Library and FIZ Karlsruhe cordially invite you to participate in eSciDoc Days 2008, to be held Monday, June 9 and Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at Harnack Haus, Berlin, Germany which is traditional venue for presentation and discussion of German academic research.
The eSciDoc Days are targeted at both eSciDoc users […]

The JISC Common Repository Interfaces Group (CRIG) is sponsoring a Roadshow due to head out on July 12 for a 2 1/2 week, multi-city event called “CRIG Roadshow.” The event will feature developers who will be pitching and sharing on-the-spot ideas in hopes of convincing whoever is on hand to participate in expressing CRIG’s collaborative […]