DSpace/Fedora

The new issue of EDUCAUSE Review is now available on line: http://www.educause.edu/er. This issue includes:

features

Seattle, WA Read this whitepaper from the Amazon Web Services Team to learn how companies are finding significant cost savings, faster time to market, and more flexibility by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.

Ceredilla, Spain The 8th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2011) Organizing Committee has made the program for the July 10-16 event available on line. SSSW 2011 will be held in Ceredilla, Spain (near Madrid) at the Universidad Politècnica de Madrid's student house.

http://sssw.org/2011/index.php

From Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

Washington, DC Federal Judge Denny Chin rejected the Google Books Settlement (GBS) on March 22, 2011. Far from providing closure on a deeply contentious issue with far-reaching implications for the library community, the action raised significant new questions, including:

• What happens next? Will there be an appeal, a new, restructured proposed settlement, or some other action?

Ithaca, NY DSpace 1.7.2, a new bug-fix release of DSpace 1.7 is now available.

This small bug fix release addresses three issues that have cropped up since 1.7.1.

From Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Rome, Italy A Special Track on Metadata and Semantics in Open Access Repositories will be offered at The Fifth Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2011) at Yasar University, Izmir-Turkey October 12-14, 2011.

MTSR Conference web site: http://mtsr2011.yasar.edu.tr/index.php

Special track web site: http://ieru.org/org/mtsr2011/OAR/

Washington, D.C. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today released a free online Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index with information and documents to support the launch and operation of an open-access journal. Materials in the index will help libraries, presses, and other academic units on campuses as they work together to make the work of their researchers more widely available.

From the Repository Fringe Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Information Services are delighted to announce that the 4th Annual Repository Fringe event will be held in the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh on August 3-5, 2011. Further sponsors and supporters will be announced.

Austin, TX More information about the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) is now available online including the main conference preliminary program,  pre-conference program and Developer Challenge. OR11 will be held June 6 - June 11 at the AT&T Center in Austin, Texas. Register here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main/schedConf/registration.

Ithaca, NY Please join DuraSpace Chief Strategy Officer Jonathan Markow for a discussion of the advantages, risks, and rewards of Open Source:

Open Source: What is it; Why does DuraSpace develop under the OS Umbrella?

June 2, 2011

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Eastern Time)