Data curation

Ceredilla, Spain The 8th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2011) Organizing Committee has made the program for the July 10-16 event available on line. SSSW 2011 will be held in Ceredilla, Spain (near Madrid) at the Universidad Politècnica de Madrid's student house.

http://sssw.org/2011/index.php

Ithaca, NY If you are traveling to the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) in Austin, Texas next week please stop by the DuraSpace table where we will be conducting ongoing DuraCloud demonstrations. We look forward to seeing members of our open source communities in celebration of another great year.

Along with conference presentations from many DSpace and Fedora community members, these DuraSpace-related events may be of interest:

Ithaca, NY DSpace 1.7.2, a new bug-fix release of DSpace 1.7 is now available.

This small bug fix release addresses three issues that have cropped up since 1.7.1.

From Robert R. Downs, Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Washington, D.C. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today released a free online Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index with information and documents to support the launch and operation of an open-access journal. Materials in the index will help libraries, presses, and other academic units on campuses as they work together to make the work of their researchers more widely available.

From the Repository Fringe Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Information Services are delighted to announce that the 4th Annual Repository Fringe event will be held in the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh on August 3-5, 2011. Further sponsors and supporters will be announced.

Austin, TX More information about the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) is now available online including the main conference preliminary program,  pre-conference program and Developer Challenge. OR11 will be held June 6 - June 11 at the AT&T Center in Austin, Texas. Register here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main/schedConf/registration.

From Kristi Holmes, Bioinformaticist at Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine

From Matthias Razum, Head ePublishing & eScience Development & Applied Research, FIZ Karlsruhe

Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany  The Max Planck Digital Library and FIZ Karlsruhe cordially invite you to participate in the eSciDoc Days 2011 to be held on Wednesday, October 26, and Thursday, October 27, at Tagungsstaette Harnack-House in Berlin, Germany.

Ithaca, NY This month's issue highlights new web site launches for DuraCloud and DuraSpace; the 2011 Sponsorship Campaign and the DuraSpace Google Summer of Code project line-up along with news and information from the DSpace, Fedora and DuraCloud projects and communities.

http://137.149.200.17/duraspacedigestv3i4.php