DuraSpace digest

Ithaca, NY What will it take to integrate a set of unique open source technologies in order to benefit the communities that rely on them to create accessible and durable digital resources? Join Brad McLean, DuraSpace CTO, for an “All About Repositories” web seminar co-sponsored by DuraSpace and ORACLE where he will address that question.

Ithaca, NY The 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (Anaheim, California; Oct. 12-15, 2010) will once again bring the people, research, businesses and resources together to examine and discuss the best IT solutions for higher education. If you are traveling to Anaheim please look for Michele Kimpton, CBO and Carol Minton Morris, Dir.

Excerpt from “Making Repositories Mean More: Report on the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories 2010″ DLib Magazine, September/October 2010, Volume 16, Number 9/10:

Chicago, Ill Northwestern University Libraries and Departments of Gender Studies and English in partnership with The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities and The Newberry Library are pleased to announce the first THATCamp Chicago.

From Art Pasquinelli, Oracle Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation Solutions Specialist and organizer of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG http://sun-pasig.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network).San Francisco, CA Here is an overview of several interesting PASIG-related activities and events that will take place in September and October.

Ithaca, NY Apologies for all who attempted to login to join “DSpace 1.6 Usage Statistics: How Does it Work?” Technical difficulties forced the web seminar to be rescheduled for Sept. 22. If you registered you will receive new login information. The web seminar will be recorded and made available at http://duraspace.org if you are unable to attend.

From Bob Donahue, Senior Developer, WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH Interactive

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud Newsletter will launch in October 2010. The quarterly publication will feature the latest news about DuraCloud software development, updates from pilot project partners who are using DuraCloud, recent presentations, upcoming DuraCloud related events, and other cloud articles of interest to the broader community. Sign up to receive the the DuraCloud Newsletter at duracloud.org.

New York, NY The Open Video Conference (http://www.openvideoconference.org/) is a summit to explore the future of video on the web hosted by the Open Video Alliance. It’s about building open source and open standards for online video, but it’s also about some larger questions: With so much free stuff out there, how will creators get paid? Who knows what you watch? Where is the medium going?
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