DSpace/Fedora

Ithaca, NY Today the DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce the launch of the DuraCloud web site. DuraCloud is an open source platform and managed service of DuraSpace that provides on-demand  storage and services for digital content in the cloud.

The Libra homepage invites scholars to add articles, preprints, books and conference papers.

With thanks to Jerry Pan, ESDORA Principle Investigator, and Joe Velaidum, Vice-President Discovery Garden for assistance in preparing this blog post.

Rome, Italy E-LIS, an international Open Archive for Library and Information Science (LIS), has migrated the contents of its Open Access repository to a DSpace instance. AePIC CILEA (Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per L'Elaborazione Automatica), a DuraSpace Registered Service Provider,  is hosting and maintaining E-LIS as a courtesy.

Ithaca, NY The focus of DuraCloud 0.9 Open Source release, scheduled for the end of April 2011, is simplification and improvement of the bulk services currently available. Bulk services are those that run over large amounts of data including bit integrity checking, image conversion, and duplicating content from one storage provider to another. Highlights include:

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From Kirsta Stapelfeldt, MA, MLIS, Islandora Project/Repository Manager, Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada The Islandora project announces an RC1 candidate for our Q1 2011 release. We invite the community to download and help us test this candidate in anticipation of our full release.

Highlights: RC1 introduces a new solution pack architecture, which allows for simplified content model installation. We have also added a tabs-based UI for content models.

Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities from Museum Wormianum, 1655. Original source from: Smithsonian Institution Libraries.