Open data

Winchester, MA In a previous blog post about the recent DuraSpace Sponsor Summit, the outcomes and activities from that meeting were outlined. Specifically, the development of a DSpace ‘vision’ as well as a new governance model. To read the more about this work visit: http://duraspace.org/looking-future-dspace-and-fedora.  

Winchester, MA  Rhodes College is a small liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee.

Ghent, Belgium  Registration is open for a joint OpenAIRE/LIBER workshop that will explore where the library sits in relation to supporting research data management, and what future expectations for libraries might be. The workshop is an ELAG (European Library Automation Group) 2013 free pre-conference event to be held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-31, 2013.

Web site:

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, CNI 

Washington, DC  Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?, a project briefing presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC and Sara Snyder of the Smithsonian Institution, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/a6Qs-_51Qko
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/61522767

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr, Publisher, Digital Scholarship

Houston, TX  Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement:

http://digital-scholarship.org/dcbw/s1/dcbw-s1.htm

The 2012 supplement to the Digital Curation Bibliography:

Winchester, MA @mire and the DSpace Community Advisory Team with the support of DuraSpace, invite all DSpace enthusiasts to the DSpace user group meeting on Tuesday, June 18th from 9:00am to 5:00pm in Geneva, Switzerland.

Winchester, MA The 2013 DuraCloud Brown Bag Series kicked off on February 27 detailing the DuraCloud subscription plan options, how the plan's respective features and pricing differ, as well as discussing the use cases that best fit each subscription option. A recording of the session can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj6rSqAm7Uw.

Winchester, MA  The growth of the Internet along with many channels users have created to disseminate every kind of networked digital information has been a catalyst for the simple idea that access to the results of publicly funded research should be free and open.

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce that Laura C. Wood has accepted an appointment to the DuraSpace Board of Directors.