Scholarly publishing

Durham, NC Duke University Libraries’ (http://library.duke.edu/) Trident Project has implemented a management framework for digital collections that includes software to support metadata creation. This framework around Fedora includes an extensible metadata editor with support for handling multiple schema and collection schema customization.

Ithaca, NY Did you miss an “All About Repositories” web seminar from 2009? Open access recordings of the following presentations are now available from the DuraSpace web site “Resources”page (http://duraspace.org/resources.php):

London, UK The conference, which is the first of its kind, will explore the development of subject repositories worldwide and will see the launch of Economists Online, the key output of an EC-funded subject repository project managed by the Nereus consortium of top international economics libraries.

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA In January the “All About Repositories” Webinar series sponsored by Sun Microsystems, DuraSpace and SPARC continues with two events focused on tools and systems that enable open access to digital content.
• On January 13, 2010 join Greg Grossmeier, Creative Commons, as he explains how to better understand Creative Commons liscences that are designed to offer open content providers and users practical tools that enable open access.

From the Program Committee of the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories 2010 (http://or2010.fecyt.es/publico/Home/index.aspx)

Glasgow, UK The European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) is the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. ECDL 2010, the 14th conference in this series, will be organized by the University of Glasgow. The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

By Heather Joseph, Executive Director, and Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications, SPARC
Washington, DC The White House needs to hear from you! As part of the Request for Information issued two weeks ago, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is inviting your contributions to an online discussion on the “Features and Technology” required to implement “public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by federal science and technology agencies.”

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA  Today, the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization and the Fedora digital repository project announced the release of Fedora 3.3. This release marks a new milestone in the process of developing the Fedora open source software.

San Mateo, CA There are 10,000 public ontologies available to help make meaning around disciplinary concepts in almost every field. If you would like to learn more about semantics as they relate to the structure of your digital information you may want to participate in an open dialog in Ontology at the Ontolog Forum http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage.

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA The DuraSpace™ organization is conducting a pilot program to test a new cloud-based service, DuraCloud™—a hosted service and open technology developed by DuraSpace, that makes it easy for organizations and end users to use commercial cloud services. DuraCloud™ leverages existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content.