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Open Data, Open Minds Highlight SPARC Digital Repository Meeting

From LibraryJournal.com

The 2010 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) Digital Repositories Meeting this week managed to combine serious talk about the challenges of open data, examining both successes and failures, with an efficient and informative showcase, the Innovation Fair, featuring rapid-fire presentations of tools and services from institutional repositories (IR).

Submitted by carol on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 12:25pm

PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM: The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data

Washington, DC You are invited to attend a public symposium, "The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data
" organized by the
Board on Research Data and Information National Research Council
 (http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi) on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:15 p.m. to be held at the 20 F Street Conference Center Conference Room B, 20 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.

Submitted by carol on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:17am

Participate in the DSpace 1.7 Testathon

Ithaca, NY Peter Dietz, Systems Developer/Engineer, Ohio State University Libraries and DSpace 1.7 Release Manager has announced that the first release candidate for DSpace 1.7 is now available for beta testing.

Some key new features to be on the lookout for are:

Mirage -- A clean new theme for XMLUI

Curation System -- A system for admins to perform curation tasks (such as virus scans, file format detection, metadata inspection) on their data.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 10:05am

DSpace and Fedora Community Commitment to Excellence in Support of Open Access to Knowledge

Ithaca, NY Open Access to knowledge relies on underlying technologies created by organizations and individuals with an awareness and understanding of the relationship of technology to scholarship both now and in the future. Open Access (OA) to knowledge and Open Source (OS) software development are linked by shared community values around digital access and preservation.

Testing Times This Summer

DSpace has added over 500 automated tests into its main codebase. These tests were developed as part of the new DSpace testing framework created through the Google Summer of Code 2010 scheme. A Spanish student, a software development mentor in New Zealand, a host company in Ireland, and a worldwide network of supporting developers worked together to undertake a project to design and implement this new testing framework for the DSpace repository platform.

DURASPACE/ORACLE WEB SEMINAR Sept 29: DuraSpace Open Integration Architecture: A Pathway to Interoperation

Ithaca, NY What will it take to integrate a set of unique open source technologies in order to benefit the communities that rely on them to create accessible and durable digital resources? Join Brad McLean, DuraSpace CTO, for an “All About Repositories” web seminar co-sponsored by DuraSpace and ORACLE where he will address that question.

Meet Up With DuraSpace at EDUCAUSE 2010

Ithaca, NY The 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (Anaheim, California; Oct. 12-15, 2010) will once again bring the people, research, businesses and resources together to examine and discuss the best IT solutions for higher education. If you are traveling to Anaheim please look for Michele Kimpton, CBO and Carol Minton Morris, Dir.

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