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From Steve Bayliss, Fedora 3.4 Release Manager
Ithaca, NY Fedora 3.4-RC1 is now available for download from the main Fedora Repository page at http://wiki.duraspace.org/x/AgAU.  Release 3.3 of Fedora will continue to be available from this page until the final version of Fedora 3.4 is released, which we are aiming to do in August.
Although a minor release, this version includes a number of exciting new features and bug fixes that make Fedora an ever more compelling repository platform.

Sandy Payette, CEO DuraSpace, speaking to IASSIST delegates on June 2, 2010 at Cornell University.

Madrid, Spain Are you traveling to Fifth International Open Repositories Conference in July 5-9,  Madrid? Previews of this exciting conference, including  a schedule for general sessions, information about the Developer Challenge and posters are now available online.
Keynote address
David De Roure, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, will give the keynote address entitled, “Linked Data and Repositories:”

From Matt McKay, Head of PR, BioMed Central
London, UK BioMed Central, the leading open access publisher, has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries to develop an automated system that uses the latest technology to automatically populate MIT’s digital repository, DSpace@MIT, with the official version of articles by MIT researchers that have been published in BioMed Central’s journals.

Ithaca, NY Steve Bayliss, Fedora 3.4 release manager, has announced that scheduling and planning for the next minor release of Fedora, version 3.4, is currently underway and reminds the community that their participation and feedback are vital to ensure that Fedora continues to meet the needs and objectives of its users. A beta version of Fedora 3.4 is scheduled for release in time for the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference that will be held 2010 in early July in Madrid.

By Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

Ithaca, NY Issues and challenges around how institutions will manage, sustain and create access to increasing amounts of scientific and humanities data will be subject of the upcoming 8th International Meeting that will be held at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh on 1-2 July 2010. “Managing Data in Difficult Times” will examine policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment.

Ithaca, NY In February the DuraSpace organization hosted a meeting in London co-sponsored by JISC, BDL (Indiana), and CLIR which was attended by representatives from the California Digital Library (CDL), DSpace, DuraCloud, Fedora, Sakai, SWORD, and OJS projects.  This rapid fire, one day cross-project coordination meeting w

Ithaca, NY Having been in and around a few archaeological “digs,” and experienced the painstaking amount of effort that goes into documenting bits and pieces of objects uncovered “in situ” it was a pleasure to browse data from the Fedora-powered Archaeology Data Service (ADS):
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/