Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA — Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, have announced today that they will join their organizations to pursue a common mission.  Jointly, they will provide leadership and innovation in open source technologies for global […]

Ithaca, NY Chris Wilper, Technical Lead for Fedora Commons Repository software, and the entire Fedora Commons Repository development team are pleased to announce the release of Fedora 3.2. This release includes many useful features and fixes, and should prove to be a major boon to your repository installation. With the help of the Fedora community […]

The Digital Humanities Observatory will hold a symposium in Second Life, “The Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint,” on Tuesday March 31, 2009. The day-long event will feature talks by John Fitzgerald (UCC), Ruth Hegarty (RIA), John Lavagnino, (NUIG), and Brad Scott (Publishing Consultant).
Full details can be found here: http://dho.ie/irishimprint
The DHO, in conjunction with […]

Ithaca, NY This issue of the Fedora Commons HatCheck newsletter features overviews of technical and community developments as well as trends and information about how new kinds of projects are using Fedora.
Read HatCheck online here. Subscribe to HatCheck RSS  here. Back issues are available here.  HatCheck is a quarterly newsletter published by Fedora Commons by and for communities of Fedora users, […]

By Sandy Payette, Executive Director Fedora Commons Welcome to the first issue of HatCheck in 2009. We hope that you have found our quarterly newsletter interesting and informative, and we encourage you to contact us if you have interesting Fedora news to report or events to announce!
A big focus of Fedora Commons this year will […]

Ithaca, NY For better or for worse many of us seem to enjoy tweeting kernals of information in 140 characters or less. The Pew/Internet and American Life Project reports:
11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates […]

Brookline, MA The Jewish Women’s Archive (http://jwa.org/) aims to “uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women” by providing public access to most of their materials. This project is using cloud storage to keep operations within their budget.  They plan to back up additional content, which includes many […]

Oxford, UK The Forced Migration Online website provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of refugees and forced migrants worldwide. The project is coordinated by a team based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford and is accessed by a wide variety of users including practitioners, policy […]

Ithaca, NY The submission date for proposals to the Fedora User Group at OR2009 is March 6, 2009. See the Call for Proposals,
https://or09.library.gatech.edu/fedora.php.
“We are very interested in proposals both for software
development projects (especially, but not limited to, open-source
software to be used with Fedora) and for interesting uses of Fedora. Any new tool, client or interface […]

At OR07 there was a well attended Birds of a Feather (BOF) session around the idea of setting up a bank of content models and disseminators for Fedora 2.0.  This process fell by the wayside as a formal content model architecture became part of the Fedora 3.o release.
There will be a BOF session at OR09 […]