The JA-SIG Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce the Spring 2009 Conference to be held March 1-4 in Dallas, Texas. The call for proposals for JA-SIG 2009 ”Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together” is now open. Deadline for submission of proposals for half or full day seminars: November 5, 2008Deadline for submission of proposals for […]

Andreas Aschenbrenner, State and University Library, Goettingen; Tobias Blanke, King’s College London, Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC); David Flanders, Birkbeck Library, University of London; Mark Hedges, King’s College London, Centre of e-Research (CeRch), and; Ben O’Steen, Oxford Library, Oxford Research Archive (ORA) have presented ideas around how repositories might become a more integral […]

In the November/December issue of DLib Magazine authors Gert Schmeltz Pedersen, Technical University of Denmark; Kåre Fiedler Christiansen, The State and University Library, Denmark; and Matthias Razum, FIZ Karlsruhe report on […]

Hull, UK The next meeting of the Fedora UK & Ireland User Group will be held at the University of York on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.  Please mark the date in your calendars.  More information will be available closer to the event.  It is hoped that Fedora Commons senior staff will attend the meeting.  If […]

Printed scholarly publications in the main reading room at the New York Public Library. © 2008 Carol Minton Morris
Baltimore, MD SPARC IR morning “Campus Publishing Strategies” sessions focused on making use of, and understanding the evolution of scholarly publishing as a platform for scholarly discourse as well as a process for developing intellectual products. […]

The Bromo-Seltzer Tower in Baltimore, Maryland. © by James G. Howes, 2008.
Baltimore, MD Bromo-Seltzer was invented in this town by Captain Isaac Emerson. To celebrate his tummy-taming elixir he built a clock tower in 1911 that was intended to look like the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The Baltimore version included a marvelous 51-foot lighted […]

London, England The next FedoraEU meeting will be held in conjunction with the DeveloperHappinessDays in London Feb 9-13, 2009. The Fedora meeting will take place on Friday the 13th of February (for good luck!). Please save the date, more information will be avaialable soon. If you are interested in “Developer Happiness Days” dev8D please […]

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: […]