http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck HatCheck is published quarterly by Fedora Commons. Please add your comments and, or contact Director of Communications and Outreach Carol Minton Morris (communications@fedora-commons.org) to contribute news. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:54:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What do attendees learn at a "Repository Institute?" Matt Zumwalt, Media Shelf, reflected on presentations and discussions at the recent Red Island Repository Institute held at the University of Prince Edward Island Aug. 11-15, 2008 in his Media Shelf Blog:The Red Island Repository Institute fires upRIRI Day Two: Richard Green on Institutional Repositories  http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/08/29/red-island-repository-reflections/ Fedora Commons has re-launched all 671 pages from the old wiki site at fedora.info with Atlassian's Confluence enterprise wiki software to continue to enable the community to work together to create Fedora's cutting-edge open source repository framework.http://fedora-commons.org, click on the red "wiki" button on the upper right of the web pagehttp://fedora-commons.org/confluence/, direct ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/08/28/new-fedora-commons-wiki/ Washington, D.C. If you cross Jeff Bezos', Amazon CEO, "Two Pizza Team Rule" with what David Flanders, Project Manager, The Bloomsbury Colleges, and organizer of the summer of 2008 "Repository Road Shows," compares to "Penny Universities" of the 18th century that were often convened in taverns, or to the work ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/08/20/repocamp-at-the-library-of-congress/ Ithaca, NY  Today Fedora Commons released version 2.2.3 of the popular Fedora software that includes the repair of a serious security defect and several bug fixes. Dan Davis, Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons, explained, “Every installation of Fedora 2 should update to 2.2.3 due to the ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/08/07/now-available-fedora-223-maintenance-release/ 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, ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/08/05/first-fedora-eu-user-group-meeting-in-arthus-denmark/ Ithaca, NY Today Fedora Commons released version 3.0 of the popular Fedora software that completes all general release features. Dan Davis, Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons, explained, “We are pleased to offer a Fedora 3.0 that is a foundational step towards a model-driven content architecture.” He went on to ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/30/now-available-production-ready-fedora-30-fits-with-the-web/ Sandy Payette and Michele Kimpton on the steps of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. where a Joint Information Systems Committee’s (JISC) Common Repository Interface Group (CRIG) “RepoCamp” was held on July 25, 2008. Photograph by David Flanders. Washington, D.C. Today two of the largest providers of open source software ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/29/dspace-foundation-and-fedora-commons-form-working-collaboration/ San Diego, CA The iRODS 1.1 storage module for Fedora has been tested and now is ready for release. The software, both irodsLowLevel.jar and Jargon.jar, can be downloaded from: https://www.irods.org/index.php/Fedora iRODS™ stands for i Rule Oriented Data Systems. This data grid software system being developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/28/new-irods-storage-module-for-fedora-from-sdsc/ Got a minute, or two? Join Fedora Commons lead developer Chris Wilper on You Tube as he takes you on a quick tour of how to install and test a Fedora Repository--in two minutes. His simple, clear instructions will have you up and running with Fedora, almost right now! Two other ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/24/installing-fedora-in-two-minutes/ The Mulgara development community is pleased to announce the release of Mulgara v2.0.0. Mulagara software is a scalable RDF database written entirely in Java. Mulgara can be downloaded from the project website at: http://mulgara.org/download.html This release marks the end of the development process that occurred through v2.0.0-alpha and v2.0.0-beta. Version 2.0.0 introduces: -SPARQL ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/24/mulgara-200-release-now-available/ London, UK The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has opened an Ideascale web site to encourage discussion towards defining repositories to feed into JISC repositories architecture work. To manage this discussion JISC is trying out Ideascale which is designed to "crowdsource" ideas, or manage large, distributed collaboration among undefined groups ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/21/help-define-repository/ 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), ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/15/call-for-proposals-sparc-digital-repositories-innovation-fair/ Ithaca, NY A new web site provides easy-to-use access to the tools and standards that power the NSDL. The NCore (http://ncore.nsdl.org) next-generation, open source digital library framework based on Fedora Commons open source repository software provide users, developers, information managers and decision-makers with systems for description, organization, interrelation, and annotation ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/08/introducing-tools-and-standards-that-power-the-national-science-digital-library-nsdl/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/08/controversy-at-the-fringe/ The Hague, Netherlands Attendees rated the first Dutch Fedora User Meeting held on June 19, 2008 as a successful venture with discussions underway to make this meeting an annual event. The meeting was hosted by the DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) project. Some participants requested that Fedora Dutch User ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/01/first-dutch-fedora-users-held-in-amsterdam/ Sydney, Australia After the recent release of Muradora 1.3 that included an all-in-one installation package, Chi Nguyen has announced that the DRAMA team at Macquarie University will no longer work full time on Muradora development effective July 1, 2008 in order to undertake a new area of work. Muradora will ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/06/27/muradora-drama-team-to-change-focus/ Stockholm, Sweden Organizer Eva Müller, Head of the National Library of Sweden (NLS) Digital Library Department, introduced Thornton Staples, Fedora Commons Director of Community Strategy and Outreach who offered an introduction and update on Fedora Commons during the June 25 "Infrastructure for Future Research" meeting at the National Library of ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/06/26/fedora-users-meet-at-swedish-national-library-in-stockholm/ Ithaca, NY At the Sun PASIG meeting in May several interested members of both the DSpace and Fedora communities gathered to explore how the two projects might work together to benefit their stakeholders. On June 10,2008 the two groups hosted an open webcast discussion to identify ways to advance ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/06/25/collaboration-update-fedora-dspace/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/06/24/thoought-leaders-in-policy-innovation-and-advocacy-fedora-commons-to-help-support-sparc-dr-fall-meeting/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/06/17/joint-conference-on-digital-libraries-opens/