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Vote on Code4Lib Conference Prepared Talks, Bloomington, IN, Feb. 7-10, 2011

Bloomington, IN Voting has begun for Code4Lib 2011 Conference prepared talks. Please vote on 50 prepared talk proposals and let the organizers know how you would like the program to shape up. Thanks to everyone who has contributed!

Vote now:  http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/17

Submitted by carol on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 2:18pm

REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION: "DSpace With Fedora Inside" Application

Ithaca, NY A few months ago, the DuraSpace organization made the recommendation that the DSpace and Fedora user communities work together to integrate the DSpace and Fedora technologies, allowing the DSpace software to run "on top of" the Fedora platform. Essentially, this would mean that the DSpace application would have an option to install it with "Fedora Inside".  DSpace with "Fedora Inside" would be a version of the DSpace application which would store its contents (files and/or metadata) in Fedora.

Making Connections at the DSpace User Group Meeting after SPARC Conference

The recent half-day DSpace User Group Meeting held following the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting provided an opportunity for over 30 DSpace users to hear updates about current development activity with the software and related products as well as participate in a hands-on tutorial on batch metadata editing. Copies of all the presentation slides from the meeting are available here.  Highlights of the meeting included:

Submitted by carol on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 5:15pm

Spatial Ontology Community of Practice Workshop: Development, Implementation and Use of GeoSpatial Ontologies and Semantics

Reston, VA Join this free workshop to be be held Dec. 3, 2010 at the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Center at 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192 on from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. This workshop is organized by SOCoP (Spatial Ontology Community of Practice) with support from the USGS, Ontolog, and others.

Submitted by carol on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 5:06pm

DSpace 1.7.0 to be released on Dec 17

The Committers would like to formally announce that the much anticipated DSpace 1.7.0 will be released on Friday, December 17, 2010.

The recent DSpace 1.7.0 Testathon has been a success. It has helped us to locate several issues/bugs that we are working to resolve before the 1.7.0 Final Release. We'd like to thank everyone who has taken part in testing and reporting of issues.

As a reminder, this new release will bring several new major features, along with numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Submitted by carol on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 4:58pm

Open Data, Open Minds Highlight SPARC Digital Repository Meeting

From LibraryJournal.com

The 2010 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) Digital Repositories Meeting this week managed to combine serious talk about the challenges of open data, examining both successes and failures, with an efficient and informative showcase, the Innovation Fair, featuring rapid-fire presentations of tools and services from institutional repositories (IR).

Submitted by carol on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 12:25pm

PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM: The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data

Washington, DC You are invited to attend a public symposium, "The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data
" organized by the
Board on Research Data and Information National Research Council
 (http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi) on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:15 p.m. to be held at the 20 F Street Conference Center Conference Room B, 20 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.

Submitted by carol on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:17am

Participate in the DSpace 1.7 Testathon

Ithaca, NY Peter Dietz, Systems Developer/Engineer, Ohio State University Libraries and DSpace 1.7 Release Manager has announced that the first release candidate for DSpace 1.7 is now available for beta testing.

Some key new features to be on the lookout for are:

Mirage -- A clean new theme for XMLUI

Curation System -- A system for admins to perform curation tasks (such as virus scans, file format detection, metadata inspection) on their data.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 10:05am
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