Technology

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.

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Due to a regression bug that was introduced with some of the recent optimizations, Mulgara 2.1.6 is being released ahead of schedule. Mulgara can be downloaded from: http://mulgara.org/download.html.

Durham, NC and Irvine, CA The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network HASTAC (http://www.hastac.org), today launched the third annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning.

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.

Bangalore, India The Library & Information Centre, B.N.M. Institute of Technology, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore – 560 070 is organizing a one-day National Workshop on “Design & Organization of Institutional Repositories Using DSpace (Version 1.5.2)” to be held on January 9, 2010.

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Paul Gearon, Technical Lead and Developer, DuraSpace, has announced the release of Mulgara 2.1.5—a scalable semantic database written entirely in Java. Download Mulgara from:
http://mulgara.org/download.html.
Some of the improvements in this release include: