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Ithaca, NY If you are new to the idea of what it will take to plan and implement a digital repository for your institution or organization the Digital Repositories infoKit produced by JISC infoNet will help you learn how to develop and run a digital repository. Basic information–general introduction, definition of a repository, drivers, management, and technology are all included in this well-written guide based on current institutional repository best practices.

Ithaca, NY Webinito Networks (http://www.webinito.com/) held a workshop on DSpace January 30-31, 2010 at Kadi University in Gujarat, India with 60 delegates from 35+ colleges, universities and government institutions from across India on hand to participate. Topics ranging from installation in Windows/Linux to a statistics module, and structure of DSpace were covered during the 2-day event.

Ithaca, NY The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides independent scientific and technological support for the EU. Articles and papers from these JRC European research organizations are now available in a DSpace repository (http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/), an online service providing access to research publications:

Ithaca, NY Have ever wondered what it was like to travel in the Middle East long ago? Rice University’s TIMEA (http://timea.rice.edu/) digital archive offers visitors unique views of Western interactions with the Middle East during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Ithaca NY Earlier this week in London Eduserv (http://www.eduserv.org.uk/) and JISC (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/) organized a free “Repositories in the Cloud” day-long event as a way to offer software developers, repository managers, service providers, and funding/advisory bodies a review of potential policy and technical issues associated with cloud computing and the delivery of repository services in UK Higher Educational Institutions. As Gaz J.

Information for this blog post was contributed by Eric Jansson, NITLE (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education)

By Elin Stangeland, DSpace@Cambridge Repository Manager, Cambridge University Library
Ithaca, NY The next DSpace User Group Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference (OR10-http://or2010.fecyt.es) in Madrid, Spain on July 8-9, 2010. DSpace invites presentation proposals for DSpace User Group sessions.

Ithaca, NY  Wake Forest University is the home of “Digital Forsyth”(http://www.digitalforsyth.org/), a digital library comprised of photographs held by multiple institutions in Forsyth County, North Carolina. This Web site offers weekend browsers an opportunity to explore a small and fascinating bit of North Carolina’s cultural, historical and scientific heritage (for example, they can fry anything in Forsyth County).

Ithaca, NY  DuraSpace user and developer communities help to create and manage all kinds of Web-based organizations, projects, and initiatives from around the world. Each of these unique enterprises engage in online news and information gathering and dissemination ranging in format from formal scholarly publications to casual blogs, tweets, and news feeds.

Information for this blog post was contributed by Bram Luyten, @mire (http://atmire.com/)