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: […]
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Call: Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Scholarly Publishing Project
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 3:52 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
A Fedora/Solr Digital Library for Oxford’s ‘Forced Migration Online’
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 3:41 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Posted in Topics: Data curation, Humanities, News, Newsletter, Preservation and archiving, Scholarly publishing, Social Studies, Technology, eResearch, education
Fedora 3.0 and “Tropicos”
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 2:36 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Saint Louis, MO The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBOT) has been in operation since 1859 and has evolved as a center for research and education. The MBOT TROPICOS collection contains all of the nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen tropical plant data accumulated over 25 years. The system manages over one million scientific names, […]
Posted in Topics: Data curation, News, Newsletter, Preservation and archiving, Scholarly publishing, Technology, eResearch, education
Call: 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 12:40 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Posted in Topics: Data curation, Events, Humanities, Newsletter, Preservation and archiving, Scholarly publishing, Social Studies, Technology, eResearch, education
Boosting Repository Functionality with Widgets
Friday, October 31st, 2008 10:10 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Posted in Topics: Data curation, Humanities, News, Preservation and archiving, Scholarly publishing, Social Studies, Technology, Uncategorized, eResearch, education
Save the dates for “Developer Happiness Days”
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 1:09 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Posted in Topics: DSpace/Fedora, Data curation, Events, Humanities, Newsletter, Preservation and archiving, Scholarly publishing, Technology, eResearch
Fedora 3.1 and Fedora 2.2.4 Now Available
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 2:32 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Traveling to Educause in Orlando? Please Join DSpace, Fedora Commons, JA-SIG, Kuali, and Sakai for an Open Source Reception
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 11:27 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Ithaca, NY You are invited to join your colleagues from the DSpace, Fedora Commons, JA-SIG, Kuali, and Sakai communities–community open source software by higher education, for higher education–for a reception on October 29th, 2008, 6:15pm - 8pm in Room W307AB of the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, FL. This is an opportunity to talk […]
Posted in Topics: DSpace/Fedora, Data curation, Events, Newsletter, Preservation and archiving, Scholarly publishing, Technology, eResearch, education
Release of Version 1.0 Production OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Specifications
Friday, October 17th, 2008 3:43 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
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 […]
Mulgara 2.0.6 Now Available
Friday, October 17th, 2008 8:27 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Chicago, Ill The latest release of Mulgara version 2.0.6, a scalable RDF database written entirely in Java, is now available. Mulgara may be downloaded at: http://mulgara.org/download.html.
Notable new features in this release include:- A servlet providing a SPARQL Protocol endpoint.- SPARQL support in the Web User Interface.- Improvements to the storage layer, speeding up large loads, while using less space […]
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