DuraSpace digest

Reston, VA Join this free workshop to be be held Dec. 3, 2010 at the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Center at 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192 on from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. This workshop is organized by SOCoP (Spatial Ontology Community of Practice) with support from the USGS, Ontolog, and others.

Ithaca, NY Please join Thorny Staples, Smithsonian Institution, for a web seminar on December 9 at 3:00 pm for "The Future of Scholarly Communication is a Web in the Clouds."

London, UK The Fedora UK and Ireland User Group meeting will be held on December 13,  2010 in the library of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 10 Portugal Street, London, WC2A 2HD

The proposed agenda outline is:

1000  Coffee
1030 Welcome
1040 Update on Fedora (Steve Bayliss, Release Manager for 3.4)
1100 LSE’s plans for Fedora (Ed Fay, LSE)
1120 – 1220  Slots of general interest

1220-1320 Lunch

The Committers would like to formally announce that the much anticipated DSpace 1.7.0 will be released on Friday, December 17, 2010.

The recent DSpace 1.7.0 Testathon has been a success. It has helped us to locate several issues/bugs that we are working to resolve before the 1.7.0 Final Release. We'd like to thank everyone who has taken part in testing and reporting of issues.

As a reminder, this new release will bring several new major features, along with numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Ithaca, NY The process of open source software development has been called a lot of things–collaborative, transparent, unwieldy, community-driven, cost effective, innovative, but never before a “dance.” This may be because it is a novel idea to visualize open source code development as a series of complex and sometimes dramatic movements between and among people and infrastructure as they engage in the ongoing evolution of dynamic software.

Washington, DC You are invited to attend a public symposium, "The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data
" organized by the
Board on Research Data and Information National Research Council
 (http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi) on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:15 p.m. to be held at the 20 F Street Conference Center Conference Room B, 20 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.