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DuraCloud + DSpace@MIT: Easy Cloud Access for Collection Managers and Curators

Ithaca, NY How, exactly, do collections of digital resources get parked in a "cloud"? There's  a lot of chatter about cloud storage particularly among higher education IT groups looking to save money on data storage [1], but for those accustomed to hands-on hard drives and racks of processors the idea of looking for sturdy digital back-up and customized services from something as ephemeral-sounding as a "cloud" does not compute.

Submitted by carol on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 12:49pm

Smithsonian Institution to Host DC Fedora Users Meeting Jan. 18

Washington, DC Thornton Staples, Director of Research and Scientific Data Management, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution, has announced that the Smithsonian Institution will host the next Fedora Users Meeting as part of an occasional series of Fedora Users meetings for the Washington DC region, which includes Maryland and Virginia. All of you in Charlottesville and Baltimore, please take note! Anyone else is welcome as well, but the goal of these meetings to bring people from the greater DC region together to see if we can get some collaboration going.

Submitted by carol on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 10:35am

Fedora Repository Source Code Now Available on GitHub

Ithaca, NY Chris Wilper, Technical Lead, Fedora Repository Project, DuraSpace has announced that the Fedora Commons Repository source code has been fully migrated to GitHub, where you can collaborate with others, fork, send pull requests and manage public and private git repositories using a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software. Currently 500,000 people hosting over 1,502,000 git repositories.

https://github.com/fcrepo

Submitted by carol on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 11:19am

NOW AVAILABLE: DuraCloud Open Source 0.7 With New Content Management Features

Ithaca, NY DuraCloud Open Source 0.7 is the latest release of the DuraCloud software, a platform that is built on commercial cloud infrastructure.  This release provides users with better tools for managing their content in the cloud. You may download it from the DuraCloud wiki (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/duracloud07/DuraCloud+Release+0.7).

Submitted by carol on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 2:46pm

DSpace Global Outreach Committee Update

Ithaca, NY  Many in the DSpace community are already familiar with the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC), which is a group of volunteers who work to identify or develop resources and tools for DSpace users, as well as to advance the user community network world-wide.

Beyond Repository Platforms: Customized Microservices

Ithaca, NY A common observation regarding technology innovation is that as soon as you get comfortable with using whatever is on your laptop or running your institution’s repository system, it’s out of date. For large knowledge institutions where approval and funding to upgrade software and systems may take a long time, this conundrum makes staying ahead of technology developments particularly challenging.

Recent DuraCloud Presentations

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud team has been on the road this summer giving presentations about the DuraCloud service, open source code and architecture while also providing a closer look at aspects of the service platform for audiences at the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories and at the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP).

DuraSpace recommends DSpace & Fedora Integration initiative

At Open Repositories 2010, DuraSpace has recommended that the DSpace and Fedora communities investigate strategies to allow DSpace software to run “on top of” the Fedora platform. The goal of the initiative would be to add an option to install the DSpace application with “Fedora Inside”.

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