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 […]

Corfu, Greece ECDL2009 will be held September 27 - October 2, 2009 on the island of Corfu, Greece. The Call for Contributions for ECDL2009 can be found at:
http://www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/call.php
-Submission deadline for Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 21, 2009
-Submission deadline for Doctoral Consortium Papers: June 1, 2009
-Submission deadline for Workshops, Tutorials and Panels: February […]

Plymouth, UK ICO3 Limited is a web technology company funded by JISC to develop a JISC Repository Aggregator demonstration web site that would enable users to search for, organize and submit information about a range of relevant repository information. As part of building that capacity ICO3 is testing a suite of repository web widgets.
Widgets are […]

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 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 […]