Fedora Repository

The CLIF Project: Fedora Repository as Part of the Institutional Technical Landscape

Ithaca, NY In a recent article [1] Richard Green, Chris Awre, Simon Waddington describe a literature review undertaken with Library and Learning Innovation (LLI) at the University of Hull and the Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King’s College London, and subsequent trial integrations of Fedora repository software with SharePoint, and Fedora repository software with Sakai. This two-part approach formed the basis for the JISC-funded CLIF (Content Lifecycle Integration Framework) Project.

Submitted by carol on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 9:44am

DuraCloud's Redundant Storage Feature Highlighted in Campus Technology

Ithaca, NY In a recent Campus Technology article (May 1, "DuraCloud Offers Redundant Storage Across Multiple Cloud Providers": http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2012/05/01/DuraCloud-Offers-Redundant-Storage-Across-Multiple-Cloud-Providers.aspx?Page=3) author Alicia Brazington points out that academia is often nervous about entrusting precious and irreplacable digital assets to cloud storage providers.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 12:10pm

DuraSpace Offers DuraCloud Access To Internet2 Members

Community-based solution to help Internet2 members preserve scholarly, scientific and cultural heritage for future generations

Arlington, VA DuraSpace and Internet2 announced today at the Spring 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting that Internet2 members now have automatic access to DuraCloud [http://duracloud.org], a trusted service for archiving and managing content in the cloud featuring one-click creation of many copies, in multiple locations with several providers.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 12:23pm

AVAILABLE: Research Data Curation Bibliography

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr, Publisher, Digital Scholarship

Houston, Tx Digital Scholarship (http://bit.ly/172mLs) has released the Research Data Curation Bibliography. It includes over 100 selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.

http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

Submitted by carol on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 8:48am

SURVEY: Library as Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability With Repositories/Data Curation Questions

From Bonnie J. Smith, University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries; Maria A. Jankowska, UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library; Marianne A. Buehler,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Las Vegas, Nevada Please accept this invitation to participate in the Library as Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability survey [link: https://academictrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8Ds9A1yindrZLlG].

Submitted by carol on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 9:08am

NOW OPEN: OR12 Delegate Registration

From Stuart Macdonald, on behalf of the OR12 organizing committee

Edinburgh, UK We are pleased to announce that delegate registration for Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) is now open via the conference electronic payment system [link: http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/registration/]. The early booking rate of £295 ($470) is available until May 21. The Conference will be held July 9-13, 2012 in Edinburgh.

Submitted by carol on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:13pm
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