DuraSpace digest

Winchester, MA  Digitization of fragile film and video resources is the first step towards making sure they are preserved into the future. Yale University's department of Manuscripts and Archives published an example of a video from The Fortunoff Video Archive Holocaust Testimonies, a historic collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, to demonstrate how important it is not only to digitize video resources, but to do it as soon as possible.

Boston, MA  Since 2009 when the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy went into effect more than 7,000 MIT faculty papers have been made openly available from DSpace@MIT. The articles have been downloaded over 630,000 times by visitors from all over the world.

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

Each month Carissa Smith, DuraCloud Partner Specialist, conducts a brief webinar discussing a topic of interest to DuraCloud customers and individuals interested in using the cloud for preservation and archiving. September's DuraCloud Brown Bag session detailed ways in which DuraCloud can be used to help solve a variety of use cases. A recording of the session, including the question and answer session can be found online on the DuraCloud YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1LbwDRSaVI

In the fall issue of the Digital Insider: Digital Information News from the State Library of North Carolina, Lisa Gregory highlights how the State Library has adopted DuraCloud to "assist with the ongoing preservation of and access to digital state government publications." The State of North Carolina began using DuraCloud in the summer and has since been able to preserve over 300,000 files in DuraCloud. She notes that getting the content into DuraCloud using several of the provided tools "was simple."

From Maureen P. Walsh, Vice-Chair, ALCTS Metadata Interest Group, Associate Professor / Institutional Repository Services Librarian, The Ohio State University Libraries

The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group invites proposals for
presentations at its meeting at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, January 27th from 8:30 to 10:00 am.
 

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an open access repository "CDC Stacks" at http://stacks.cdc.gov using the Fedora repository platform hosted in the cloud.

From The DSpace Committers Team

The DSpace committers team are delighted to announce a new member to the group: João Melo from Lyncode, his startup company. Please join us in welcoming him!

Since his earlier student stages, as a hobby, João had studied the most recent programming methodologies, frameworks and languages, he developed websites, applications, tools and contributed to his local community leading local informatics projects.

Winchester, MA  On Oct. 18 Edwin Shin presented “The Features and Updates of Fedora 3.6". This webinar is part of the DuraSpace Solutions Series. Learn more about Fedora 3.6 here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA36/Fedora+3.6+Documentation.

A recording of the webinar presentation along with the presentation slides is available at http://duraspace.org/duraspace-solutions.

ORCID  (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) has launched its Registry (http://orcid.org), where researchers can distinguish themselves by creating a unique profile and personal identifier for themselves.

Announcement: http://about.orcid.org/news/2012/10/16/orcid-launches-registry