DSpace/Fedora

DSpace 1.7.0 is available now!

On behalf of the DSpace Committers, we would like to formally announce that DSpace 1.7.0 is now available!

DSpace 1.7.0 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations:

• SourceForge
• Subversion

In addition, you are welcome to try out DSpace 1.7.0 on http://demo.dspace.org/ and continue to provide any early feedback you may have.

DSpace 1.7.0 is available now!

On behalf of the DSpace Committers, we would like to formally announce that DSpace 1.7.0 is now available!

DSpace 1.7.0 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations:

• SourceForge
• Subversion

In addition, you are welcome to try out DSpace 1.7.0 on http://demo.dspace.org/ and continue to provide any early feedback you may have.

Open Repositories 2011, "Collaboration and Community: The Social Mechanics of Repository Systems"

Austin, Texas What is the role of social interactions within repository technical communities in developing strong, distributed services and cyberinfrastructure to create open access to and preservation of our shared digital heritage? The Sixth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) communities will address that question in the state capital of Texas, Austin, often billed as "The Live Music Capital of the World,” from June 8-11, 2011 at the AT& T Conference Center.

Get Ready for Webometrics Repository Ranking Data Collection

By Bram Luyten, @mire

Leuven, Belgium Early in 2011, the CSIC Cybermetrics Lab (Spain) will harvest, analyze and publish data about online visibility of IRs in its Top 800 Institutional Repository Ranking. The January ranking will reflect the visibility of repositories in different online search engines. A limited time window is being used to get a snapshot of data. Here is the ranking production schedule:

Submitted by carol on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 2:24pm

A 19th Century View of Shakespeare Through A Djatoka Viewer and DuraCloud

Ithaca, NY Before continuous tone photography, and way before there were instant digital capture devices for recording and processing digital images, there were engravings. The process of using sharp tools (gravers) to incise an image on a metal or glass plate so that a reverse print of that image could be created by spreading ink on the plate and pressing paper into the inked design is known as engraving. This method of recording images was used extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to illustrate the news stories of the day.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 3:32pm

Notes on the Scholarly Infrastructure Technical Summit (SITS)

Ithaca, NY Dave Challis, Systems Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, has provided a summary of the recent SITS meeting held in San Jose, CA. The goal of the group (https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddpd4q4q_189f49xsjcn) is to:

Submitted by carol on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:12am

REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION: "DSpace With Fedora Inside" Application

Ithaca, NY A few months ago, the DuraSpace organization made the recommendation that the DSpace and Fedora user communities work together to integrate the DSpace and Fedora technologies, allowing the DSpace software to run "on top of" the Fedora platform. Essentially, this would mean that the DSpace application would have an option to install it with "Fedora Inside".  DSpace with "Fedora Inside" would be a version of the DSpace application which would store its contents (files and/or metadata) in Fedora.

PROPOSALS WELCOME: Fedora UK and Ireland Meeting December 13

London, UK The Fedora UK and Ireland User Group meeting will be held on December 13,  2010 in the library of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 10 Portugal Street, London, WC2A 2HD

The proposed agenda outline is:

1000  Coffee
1030 Welcome
1040 Update on Fedora (Steve Bayliss, Release Manager for 3.4)
1100 LSE’s plans for Fedora (Ed Fay, LSE)
1120 – 1220  Slots of general interest

1220-1320 Lunch

Submitted by carol on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 5:02pm
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