DuraSpace digest

Ithaca, NY Summer sojourns come in many varieties. For leaders and participants in the third Red Island Repository Institute (RIRI) hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) in Charlottetown, Canada, red sand beaches, lobster and deep dives into the inner workings of Fedora—open source flexible extensible, digital object repository software—were a logical combination for a destination experience focused around technology education and the natural beauty of Prince Edward Island.

Ithaca, NY Tuskegee University was founded in post-civil war Alabama to educate and empower freed slaves. Lewis Adams and George W. Campbell were instrumental securing funds to open what was then known as the Tuskegee Normal School in 1881 under the leadership of former slave Booker T. Washington. The Auburn University Libraries Systems Department recently completed a collaborative project with Tuskegee University to make their archival materials available online in a DSpace Repository.
The Tuskegee University Archives Repository may be accessed here:

Washington, DC The National Library of Medicine has launched its Digital Collections as part of a digital repository project that was started in 2006. NLM’s digital collections consist of historic public health resources, images, rich media and documents related to informational campaigns and health services over the last 200 years. More information about the project is available here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/digitalrepository/index.html.

New York, NY Kaltura (http://corp.kaltura.com/) has launched the Cross Campus Education Suite which is designed to help educational institutions create, manage and distribute rich media learning resources in support of all aspects of teaching and learning.

http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/education_technology_video

New Delhi, India TERI, New Delhi and the Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, the Ministry of Culture, the Government of India, Kolkatai, have announced that registration and paper submission for ICDLM is now open. This year’s conference will provide a stimulating forum for DL professionals
to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom.

Tokyo, Japan After the overwhelming success of ICoASL 2008 (International Conference of Asian Special Libraries) in New Delhi, the SLA Asian Chapter is now organizing the second ICoASL 2011 in Tokyo, Japan from 10 – 12 February 2011.
The principal objective of ICoASL is to provide a platform for exchange of knowledge and skills relevant to Information Professionals in Asia with a global perspective.

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: