DuraSpace digest

The summer is always a great time to sit back, relax, and put your feet up. But this summer, the DSpace developers have been hard at work (though, we’ve also taken our respective relaxation time). We’ve been making early preparations for the upcoming DSpace 1.7 release and mentoring four successful student projects during the 2010 Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

Ithaca, NY Join Ben Bosman, CTO @mire for a free one-hour web seminar on September 8, 2010 at 11:00 EDT. He will explain how @mire’s open-source version of the “Content and Usage Analysis” DSpace module  released with DSpace 1.6 can work for you. The DSpace 1.6 statistics solution offers logging of usage data including bitstream downloads, item display page visits, and collection and community homepage visits.

From Steve Bayliss, Fedora 3.4 Release Manager
Ithaca, NY Today the Fedora Repository team is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 3.4 led by Steve Bayliss. The latest version of the Fedora Repository platform is now available for download from the main Fedora Repository page at:

Ithaca, NY The name “Woods Hole” has been synonymous with scientific discovery and exploration for more than a century. The Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MBL WHOI) Library has been a partner in sustaining the Woods Hole scientific community from the beginning.

Ithaca, NY Are you new to Fedora? Go ahead, give Fedora a try, kick the tires and find out if the Fedora Repository platform works for you:

 http://duraspace.org/refrepo/ref-repo.php

From Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Alliances, Director of the Fedora Project, DuraSpace

Edinburgh, Scotland The RLUK Conference 2010, co- hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland, will take place in Edinburgh from November 10 - 12, 2010.
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/597

Request from Dan Rehak, US National Learning Registry

Ithaca, NY My father used to say that he was “off to the salt mines” as he left for his job as an early IBM engineer each day. He did not know that he was predicting the future location of UK archival information with that witticism.

Ithaca, NY Any discussion about making a digital collection accessible eventually circles around to the question of “how long?” The Texas Digital Library (TDL) was awarded a $25,000 Historic Preservation and Digitization Award from the NN/LM South Central Region to make 500 photos that illustrate medical history in Dallas available. The Library chose to create a public face for the images through CONTENTdm.