Humanities

Rotterdam, Netherlands Infrae (http://infrae.com/), a company that builds software on request and provides integration, customization, and support services for public and private sector customers throughout Europe, is pleased to announce the first public release of the MOAI Server (http://moai.infrae.com/). MOAI is a platform that aggregates input from disparate sources and republishes it via the Open Archive Initiatives protocol for metadata harvesting.

Ithaca, NY The Physics ePrint Archive (http://arXiv.org/) was developed by Paul Ginsparg at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1991. Ginsparg is now a Cornell University faculty member where arXiv.org continues to provide Open Access to 534,588 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

Charlottetown, Canada  The Robertson Library Islandora Team at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) has announced that Islandora beta release 2009-04-03  has been made available. This version of Islandora is compatible with Drupal 6.x and Fedora 3.x.
Find more information and download this release from the Islandora Fedora-Drupal website http://vre.upei.ca/dev/islandora.

Tune in on Wed., May 13, 2009 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET  for a SUN/DSpace/Fedora/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar that will highlight the upcoming OR09 (https://or09.library.gatech.edu/index.php) to be held in Atlanta, Georgia from May 18-21, 2009 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The conference promises to showcase the latest global repository developments and breakthroughs that increasingly play a pivotal role in the information landscape.

Truro, UK  What will it take to establish global repository infrastructure to create an interoperable system of repositories for research outputs? The aim of the International Repositories Infrastructure group is to determine where work needs to be done to ‘fill in the gaps’ to meet this objective. Current efforts are focused on journal articles.

Atlanta, Georgia To find out more about the broad range of OR09 topics spanning repository implementations for education, research, science, and cultural heritage browse the OR09 program now available here: https://or09.library.gatech.edu/schedule.php.
• Early bird registration has been extended until this Friday, April 24th. The registration URL is:  https://or09.library.gatech.edu/registration.php  (One and two day registrations are now available.)

“Moving Into the Mainstream, Enabling Our Digital Future” is the theme of  iPRES 2009 (http://www.cdlib.org/iPres/index.html) scheduled for October 5-6, 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

Hull, UK The Fedora UK and Ireland User Group looks forward to welcoming participants to the summer 2009 meeting of the Fedora UK and Ireland User Group.  The event will be hosted by the Digital Humanities Observatory at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin (Tip: Ryanair (http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/ offers low fares.)

Aberystwyth, UK Hear directly from many of the people who are engaged in developing repository architectures and implementations in a new series of podcasts from The Repositories Support Project (RSP).  RSP is a JISC initiative that supports the development and growth of the UK repositories network. The podcast series is designed to help you keep up with evolving information, best practices, and discussions.