DSpace

Madrid, Spain The Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories with the theme “The Grand Integration Challenge” will be held in Madrid July 6-9, 2010. The detailed schedules for both the general conference and the user group meetings, including both DSpace and Fedora users are now available.

Ithaca, NY To strengthen, engage and provide professional learning opportunities for repository user and developer communities, topics and issues of interest will been presented in the free, “All About Repositories” web seminar series offered by Oracle and Duraspace throughout 2010.

Ithaca, NY At OR10, the Fifth Annual International Open Repositories Conference (July 6-9, 2010, Madrid), DuraSpace will recommend that the DSpace community begin to work more closely with the Fedora community to allow 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.”

From Gail Truman, Truman Technologies, LLC

Sandy Payette, CEO DuraSpace, speaking to IASSIST delegates on June 2, 2010 at Cornell University.

From Georgia Solomou, University of Patras, Greece

Ithaca, NY  User Group Meetings are a highlight of the annual Open Repositories Conference and often feature breakthrough research results and views into rapidly emerging trends in repository implementations from around the globe. For the first time DSpace and Fedora user group sessions have been combined and scheduled into a single DuraSpace track in order to enable participants who want to attend parts of each user group session to more easily plan their time at this year’s OR10 Conference.

Ithaca, NY BoF sessions will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference in Madrid July 5-9, 2010. Slots are open for Tue. 6, Wed. 7, Thu. 8 and Fri. 9. Rooms and “comfy zones” with armchairs and coffee tables have been made available for BoF sessions in the same time slots as regular conference sessions and during lunches or down-times. There will be a special BoF evening session on Wednesday, after presentations end.

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC