Archive for April, 2008

“Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks”

On April 23, 2008 Cornell University’s 2005-2008 Networks Theme Project capped the three-year teaching and research initiative with a lecture by team members including David Easley (Economics), Jon Kleinberg (Computer Science), Kathleen O’Connor (JGSM), Michael Macy (Sociology), and Dan Huttenlocher (Computer Science & JGSM) entitled “Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks.”
David Easley […]

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Fedora Day at OR08 Kicks Off With Organizational and Technical Overview

Fedora Day at OR08 began as 50 Fedora Commons t-shirts with two different slogans flew off a table outside a lecture hall at the University of Southampton, UK. Fedora users, organizers, developers, vendors, and planners were assembled as part of the Third International Open Repositories Conference to share ideas and discuss future plans for the […]

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Open Repository Leaders Meet in Southampton, UK

The Southampton Bargate located in the midst of downtown shops, is part of the old town walls dating back to the Saxon era.
The Third Annual Open Repositories Conference (OR08) opened at the University of Southampton, UK, on April 1, 2008 with an observation by conference co-chair Les Carr. He suggested that the collective efforts […]

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