DSpace

The summer is always a great time to sit back, relax, and put your feet up. But this summer, the DSpace developers have been hard at work (though, we’ve also taken our respective relaxation time). We’ve been making early preparations for the upcoming DSpace 1.7 release and mentoring four successful student projects during the 2010 Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

Ithaca, NY Join Ben Bosman, CTO @mire for a free one-hour web seminar on September 8, 2010 at 11:00 EDT. He will explain how @mire’s open-source version of the “Content and Usage Analysis” DSpace module  released with DSpace 1.6 can work for you. The DSpace 1.6 statistics solution offers logging of usage data including bitstream downloads, item display page visits, and collection and community homepage visits.

Ithaca, NY The name “Woods Hole” has been synonymous with scientific discovery and exploration for more than a century. The Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MBL WHOI) Library has been a partner in sustaining the Woods Hole scientific community from the beginning.

From Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Alliances, Director of the Fedora Project, DuraSpace

Edinburgh, Scotland The RLUK Conference 2010, co- hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland, will take place in Edinburgh from November 10 - 12, 2010.
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/597

Request from Dan Rehak, US National Learning Registry

Ithaca, NY Any discussion about making a digital collection accessible eventually circles around to the question of “how long?” The Texas Digital Library (TDL) was awarded a $25,000 Historic Preservation and Digitization Award from the NN/LM South Central Region to make 500 photos that illustrate medical history in Dallas available. The Library chose to create a public face for the images through CONTENTdm.

Rome, Italy On August 1, 2010 The United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE announced a joint initiative entitled “Agri-Ocean DSpace” to provide a customized version of DSpace using standards and controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences.

Ithaca, NY This week the American Libraries Magazine “Inside Scoop” blog features reports from the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2010, 76th IFLA General Conference (http://www.ifla.org/ifla76) being held in Gothenburg, Sweden posted by Leonard Kniffel: IFLA in Gothenburg, Day 1: The American Agenda; IFLA in Gothenburg, Day 2: Opening Event, Swedish Style, with Jan Eliasson

Timisoara, Romania The IADIS WWW/Internet International Conference 2010 (http://www.internet-conf.org/)will be held in Timisoara, Romania October 14-17. The deadline for submission of papers is September 3, 2010.
• Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Mark Frydenberg, Senior Lecturer, Bentley University, USA
Molly Holzschlag, Web Evangelist, Developer Relations, Opera Software, USA