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From Tim Donohue on behalf of the DSpace Committers Group
We welcome to Peter Dietz, Robin Taylor, and Keith Gilbertson to the DSpace Committers team. These individuals were nominated by three different members of our DSpace Community.  All have shown great initiative in volunteering their time to help out DSpace Software and our DSpace Community.

Ithaca, NY Chris Wilper, DuraSpace Technical Lead and Developer is pleased to announce the release of Akubra 0.3.
http://fedora-commons.org/go/akubra
Akubra is a Java API that provides read/write access to URI-addressable files.  It is currently used by the Fedora Commons Repository software to provide an adaptable, file-oriented low level storage layer, but it is not Fedora-specific. Akubra achieves a high level of interoperability between storage systems by making simplifying assumptions:

Ithaca, NY The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides independent scientific and technological support for the EU. Articles and papers from these JRC European research organizations are now available in a DSpace repository (http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/), an online service providing access to research publications:

Ithaca, NY Have ever wondered what it was like to travel in the Middle East long ago? Rice University’s TIMEA (http://timea.rice.edu/) digital archive offers visitors unique views of Western interactions with the Middle East during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Ithaca NY Earlier this week in London Eduserv (http://www.eduserv.org.uk/) and JISC (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/) organized a free “Repositories in the Cloud” day-long event as a way to offer software developers, repository managers, service providers, and funding/advisory bodies a review of potential policy and technical issues associated with cloud computing and the delivery of repository services in UK Higher Educational Institutions. As Gaz J.

Information for this blog post was contributed by Eric Jansson, NITLE (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education)

By Elin Stangeland, DSpace@Cambridge Repository Manager, Cambridge University Library
Ithaca, NY The next DSpace User Group Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference (OR10-http://or2010.fecyt.es) in Madrid, Spain on July 8-9, 2010. DSpace invites presentation proposals for DSpace User Group sessions.

Ithaca, NY The 1950s were a hopeful time in New York City. The arts were flourishing as former Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith began photographing Jazz greats such as Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk in a run-down NYC loft. The resulting Jazz Loft Project photographs evoke a time when expansive musical experimentation matched the big cars people were driving out on Sixth Avenue.

Ithaca, NY Paul Gearon, Technical Lead and Developer, DuraSpace, has announced the release of Mulgara 2.1.7. Major changes in this release include: long running queries executed over RMI can now be interrupted; better SPARQL compliance in the algebra, and; more efficient memory use for some operations. The new Mulgara release can be downloaded from: http://mulgara.org/download.html.
About Mulgara

Information for this blog post was contributed by Bram Luyten, @mire (http://atmire.com/)