Scholarly publishing

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.

By Brett Bobley, Chief Information Officer, Director, Office of Digital Humanities (http://www.neh.gov/ODH/) National Endowment for the Humanities

By the DuraSpace team
Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA DuraSpace believes that communities are essential to the creation of shared and enduring solutions.  To address the challenges inherent in digital information, the power of community can be harnessed towards solutions for preserving our digital heritage, promoting open access, enabling scholarly communication, managing scientific data, and more.

By Chris Awre, Head of Information Management Academic Services, University of Hull
Oxford, UK The Fedora UK & Ireland and EU User Groups held their first formal joint meeting at the University of Oxford on December 8, 2009. The day provided a good opportunity to share experiences and ideas, and was focused around two themes of current interest.

This announcement is forwarded from David Ruddy, Director, E-Publishing Technologies, Division of Library Information Technologies, Cornell University Library (CUL).

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Join Michele Kimpton, CBO, DuraSpace for an “All About Repositories” web seminiar on December 16, 2009, and find out how your organization can participate in a pilot program that will test a new cloud-based service, “DuraCloud.” Please register for the free web seminar here.

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA At the heart of any open source project are the people who come together to create innovative software. Today DuraSpace, a non-profit organization that combines Fedora Commons and DSpace technologies, announced a launch of their Solution Community program to extend participation in open source software development to strategic decision makers.

Mountain View, CA Register today to join Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and host Northeastern University for an information-packed day focused on open computing solutions and best practices in the digital preservation and archiving space.