Fedora Repository

Ithaca, NY Open Access to knowledge relies on underlying technologies created by organizations and individuals with an awareness and understanding of the relationship of technology to scholarship both now and in the future. Open Access (OA) to knowledge and Open Source (OS) software development are linked by shared community values around digital access and preservation.

 From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

Palo Alto, CA Tom Cramer, Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources, has announced that there will be a Hydra Partners meeting on November 4, 5 and 6th at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. These meetings are open to the Hydra community. Both current and prospective members are encouraged to participate.

Ithaca, NY The good stuff is always kept in the “vault.” The remarkable resources in the University of British Columbia Library Vault are no exception. Who would display things like amazing animal images, artworks, postcards, historic photographs, scholarly papers, and fanciful ethnic images on a ordinary virtual shelf?

Avila, Spain IADIS International Conference E-Society 2011 has issued a call for full and short papers, reflection papers, posters/demonstrations, tutorials, panels and a doctoral consortium for the IADIS e-Society 2011 Conference to be held March 10-13, 2011 in Avila, Spain. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. The deadline for submissions is October 29, 2010. More information is available here:

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.

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.