OR12

From Jared Lyle, ICPSR, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI  What kinds of curation services might help prepare data for deposit in digital repositories?  What kind of tools might ICPSR provide to local repositories to support local data processing?  We would like to hear your ideas.
 

From Tim Donohue on behalf of the DSpace Committers.

Ithaca, NY I'd like to formally announce a change to the DSpace Release Numbering Scheme, as well as the upcoming 3.0 release.

In the past, we have had a "three-tiered" numbering scheme ([major].[minor].[subminor]), e.g. 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2. However, over the years, we've heard feedback that this numbering scheme could be confusing, as it was unclear which releases contained brand new features and which releases only contained bug fixes.

From Kevin Ashley, 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) Program Chair

Edinburgh, UK The call for papers for Open Repositories 2012 has been extended one last time to midnight on Thursday March 8th. This is in response to demand from

From Stuart Macdonald, Associate Data Librarian, EDINA, on behalf of OR2012 Host Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, UK The online submissions system for OR12 is live at: http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/submissions/

Ithaca, NY DSpace (http://DSpace.org) is an out-of-the-box open source repository software package for creating repositories focused on delivering digital content to end users, and providing a full set of tools for managing and preserving content within the application.

From Kevin Ashley, 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) Program Chair

Ithaca, NY On Jan. 11, 2012 Chris Wilper, DuraSpace Technical Lead and Developer, gave a web seminar presentation about how to easily back-up and restore Fedora (http://fedora-commons.org) repository content in DuraCloud (http://duracloud.org) with the CloudSync (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/CLOUDSYNC/Fedora+CloudSync+Project) utility.

From Kevin Ashley, Director Digital Curation Centre and OR12 Conference Program Chair, on behalf of the programme committee and the local organizing committee of OR12

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) extended its DSpace IR (http://mahider.ilri.org) to include different groups independently on the same platform when developers realized that each community could have its own URL, look and feel, and administration using DSpace.