Humanities

Summary

A group of stakeholders from the Fedora community have come together to begin the process of planning a three year software development project that will direct new resources toward a major Fedora overhaul, adding capabilities that will make Fedora the repository platform of choice for the future.  The group anticipates that improvements will include features such as greater scalability, data management support, storage flexibility, and others the community has been requesting. This new initiative is being called Fedora Futures.

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator,  CNI

Washington, DC  Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change by Lynne O'Brien of Duke University, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting (http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2012/), is now available on CNI's two video channels: 

Winchester MA   You are paying for a rack of rapidly aging hard drives managed by your local IT department and were just informed that the upgrade cost for continuing to preserve your content would be higher than expected; Or you backup content on several servers kept in a closet down the hall but you have no way of adding more storage capacity; Or perhaps you have a stack of external hard drives that live under your desk that have started making a disturbing noise. Do you recognize yourself?

From OR2013 Program Co-Chairs Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, jwd@iu.edu and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, sshreeve@illinois.edu

From Karen Meijer-Kline, Communications and Member Services Officer, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Simon Fraser University Library

Burnaby, BC, Canada  The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are pleased to announce the Fourth International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, which will be held from August 19 - 21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico.

From Anthi Katsirikou, QQML Conference co-chair

Rome, Italy  The 5th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) will be held at "La Sapienza" University, in Rome June 4-7, 2013. Proceedings will focus on new methodological developments and practical applications for libraries.

Information about how to submit to the QQML Conference 2013 may be found here: http://www.isast.org.

Winchester, MA  The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations housing the largest archive of social science data (500,000+ files) in the world. With the gravitas of more than 50 years of leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis, ICPSR continues to paint an evolving picture of social trends and ideas across the Unites States and the world by making demographic, social and geographical data available.

Redwood Shores, CA  The upcoming PASIG meeting will be held Oct. 17-19, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. The Early Bird Special registration rate of $250 lasts through September 5. After September 5 registration is $375. Registration information, a draft agenda and pre-meeting workshop details may be found here:

http://www.asis.org/Pasig/PASIGDublin2012.html