DuraSpace digest

Ithaca, NY A common observation regarding technology innovation is that as soon as you get comfortable with using whatever is on your laptop or running your institution’s repository system, it’s out of date. For large knowledge institutions where approval and funding to upgrade software and systems may take a long time, this conundrum makes staying ahead of technology developments particularly challenging.

From Valorie Hollister, Director of Community Development, DSpace Project, DuraSpace
Ithaca, NY There will be a one day DSpace User Group Meeting on November 10, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, immediately following the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0513.shtml) on November 8 and 9.
A big thank you to @mire (http://atmire.com/), a Registered DSpace Service Provider, who is sponsoring the DSpace meeting.

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud team has been on the road this summer giving presentations about the DuraCloud service, open source code and architecture while also providing a closer look at aspects of the service platform for audiences at the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories and at the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP).

Contact Michele Kimpton (mkimpton@duraspace.org) for more information.

Ithaca, NY The AUC DAR Repository (http://dar.aucegypt.edu:8080/jspui/) was recently launched as an open access institutional repository based on DSpace that was designed to improve scholarly communications at AUC and beyond. AUC DAR features oral histories, views of artifacts, jewelry, image collections and much more including a collection of Egyptian postcards:
http://dar.aucegypt.edu:8080/jspui/handle/10526/52

From Matthias Razum, Head ePublishing and eScience, FIZ Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany Development & Applied ResearchFIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library cordially invite you to participate in the eSciDoc Days 2010 to be held on Tuesday, November 16, and Wednesday, November 17, 2010, hosted by the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ithaca, NY Making sure that the wealth of digital learning and information resources that are now freely available on the Web reach teachers, students and families when and where they need them is a priority in the US and around the world. In a major step forward towards meeting this goal The US Secretary of Education, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution announced the US National Learning Registry.

Ithaca, NY Before there were sophisticated online multi-player games with realistic graphics and entire virtual worlds, children and some adults were playing in gaming parlors and through low-tech analog TVs connected to hand-held control devices. Classic favorites such as PacMan and Tetris may survive into the future because new versions are still available and in use. Less well-known games may not survive beyond their commercial shelf-life.

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

By Bram Luyten, @mire