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Boston, MA On Saturday, July 10, 2011 Boston Globe readers got in on the truly amazing ability to to "see"  both broad and detailed views of the history of local news from 1960-2000 at the Boston TV News Digital Library based on Fedora repository software:

http://bostonlocaltv.org/

The Boston Globe story contains video clips from four collections:

From the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services

From the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From Bonnie Wilson, D-Lib Magazine

The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

This issue contains four articles, two conference reports, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.  This month, D-Lib features the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives web site.

The articles include:

Winchester, MA The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from July 9-13, 2012. To get announcements about this event and other OR-related communications, you may join the OR announcements mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.

From Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

Washington, DC Proposals are now being invited for the Berlin 9 Open Access meeting poster display, which will showcase Open Access initiatives from all corners of the globe.

Winchester, MA DuraSpace recommended that the DSpace and Fedora communities investigate strategies to allow DSpace software to run “on top of” the Fedora platform at the Open Repositories 2010 (OR10) Conference. The suggested goal of the initiative remains the same–to retain an out-of-the-box DSpace experience while also enabling extra features that Fedora provides including versioning, relationships between objects, flexible architecture.

From Joe Velaidum, Vice-President, DiscoveryGarden Inc.