On September 10, 2008 The DSpace Foundation announced the release of DSpace version 1.5.1. This release contains numerous bug fixes from the 1.5.0 release as well as some enhancements. For more details on the release, click here.
By Thornton Staples Developing community activities around Fedora Commons’ priority areas is one of our central functions as an organization. We are well placed to organize communities for development in a variety of areas, especially including development of the core software and application development in a variety of solution areas that have a natural affinity with Fedora. Other community activities could include such things as standards development, issue advocacy or simple information sharing in a particular area.
By Thornton Staples With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the WGBH Media Library and Archives has embarked on a 20-month project that will (1) utilize scholarly input to design and pilot an online media archive content delivery system for research and classroom use, and (2) construct a preliminary business plan with the aid of a business consultant.
The CRL Global Resources Network (GRN) and the New York Public Library are co-sponsoring a forum on “electronic media and the preservation of news.” The forum is open to members of CRL/GRN, the research community, the news media, publishers and other information providers. Conference details and registration are available here. Attendance for CRL members is gratis, but advance registration is still required.
Repository managers and developers who maintain large collections of digital objects over time who will be attending the Aarhus Fedora EU User Group Meeting will be interested in a BOF discussion scheduled for Sep 18, 2008 right after the DORSDL2 Workshop at ECDL 2008 (Aarhus, Denmark), or later in the evening (exact time to be announced).
By Dan Davis Fedora 3.0 was released at the end of July closely followed by a maintenance update of Fedora 2.2.3. Our next efforts focus on three fronts: (1) improving Fedora Common’s software, (2) dramatically increasing support for light-weight Web applications and (3) building an open source software development community. Not surprisingly all three of these fronts provide opportunities for cross fertilization.
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:
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 page
http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/, direct link to the new Fedora Commons wiki
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 security update.
