DSpace

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.

By Bram Luyten, @mire

Leuven, Belgium Early in 2011, the CSIC Cybermetrics Lab (Spain) will harvest, analyze and publish data about online visibility of IRs in its Top 800 Institutional Repository Ranking. The January ranking will reflect the visibility of repositories in different online search engines. A limited time window is being used to get a snapshot of data. Here is the ranking production schedule:

Ithaca, NY Before continuous tone photography, and way before there were instant digital capture devices for recording and processing digital images, there were engravings. The process of using sharp tools (gravers) to incise an image on a metal or glass plate so that a reverse print of that image could be created by spreading ink on the plate and pressing paper into the inked design is known as engraving. This method of recording images was used extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to illustrate the news stories of the day.

Nairobi, Kenya A three-day workshop on how to use DSpace to showcase and share broad agricultural knowledge was offered by @mire and held at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) campus in Nairobi earlier this week.

DSpace user Peter Ballantyne, Head of Knowledge Management and Information Services at ILRI organized the workshop to help others learn how to leverage this out-of-the-box, open source repository technology to spread information and share agricultural information.

Ithaca, NY Highlights, news and information from DuraSpace developers, communities and partners is now available in the current issue of DuraSpace Digest:

Ithaca, NY Dave Challis, Systems Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, has provided a summary of the recent SITS meeting held in San Jose, CA. The goal of the group (https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddpd4q4q_189f49xsjcn) is to:

Chicago, IL The 6th International Digital Curation Conference is set to get underway on December 6 with a full programme: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/programme.

Speakers will include: