Humanities

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/

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.

From Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Islandora Project/Repository Manager, University of Prince Edward Island

Washington, DC The May/June 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine contains four articles, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.  This month, D-Lib features the the American-Rails.com web site, courtesy of Adam Burns.

http://www.dlib.org/
The articles include:

Washington, DC The ninth installment in the Berlin Open Access Conference Series, which convenes leaders in the science, humanities, research, funding, and policy communities around The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, will take place at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on November 9 & 10, 2011 outside Washington, DC. The conference theme will focus on the impact of open access in research and scholarship.

Ithaca, NY This month's issue highlights new web site launches for DuraCloud and DuraSpace; the 2011 Sponsorship Campaign and the DuraSpace Google Summer of Code project line-up along with news and information from the DSpace, Fedora and DuraCloud projects and communities.

http://137.149.200.17/duraspacedigestv3i4.php

From Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace