DSpace/Fedora

Linz, Austria The deadline for submissions of nominations to the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica is March 18, 2009.  If you would like to nominate a digital community  for important achievements as well as innovative artistic approaches towards web-based communities visit Ars Electronica prize categories and submit a nomination.

Washington, D.C. During its three years of operations, the institutional repository at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has gathered and posted over 21,000 documents, which together with its hosted ETD collection make it the third largest institutional repository in the U.S. Usage records also indicate it is one of the busiest, serving up more than 100,000 downloads a month. The repository has also become the cornerstone for a bundle of electronic publishing services developed and provided by the UNL Libraries.

Ithaca, NY The submission date for proposals to the Fedora User Group at OR2009 is March 6, 2009. See the Call for Proposals,
https://or09.library.gatech.edu/fedora.php.

At OR07 there was a well attended Birds of a Feather (BOF) session around the idea of setting up a bank of content models and disseminators for Fedora 2.0.  This process fell by the wayside as a formal content model architecture became part of the Fedora 3.o release.

Corfu, Greece The 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009) will be held on the island of Corfu, Greece September 27 - October 2, 2009http://www.ecdl2009.eu/. Calls for proposals are now being accepted:

It’s not too late to submit a proposal for Open Repositories 2009! The deadline for general conference proposals has been extended to February 20th, 2009, which means you still have time.

Ithaca, NY  Fedora Commons invites you to submit proposals for the next Fedora User Group Meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Open Repositories 2009 conference. We invite developers, researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for presentations describing their experiences implementing and using Fedora, or developing software associated with Fedora. The Fedora program committee is currently soliciting proposals for 20 minute presentations.

Call for Papers, Posters and Workshops Repositories are being deployed in a variety of environments (education, research, science, cultural heritage) and contexts (national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal). Regardless of setting, context or scale, repositories are increasingly expected to operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities.

Open repositories 2009 - The Premier Venue for Implementers and Managers of Repository Infrastructure and Services
Call for Papers, Posters and Workshops