DuraSpace

Winchester, MA  On Oct. 18 Edwin Shin presented “The Features and Updates of Fedora 3.6". This webinar is part of the DuraSpace Solutions Series. Learn more about Fedora 3.6 here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA36/Fedora+3.6+Documentation.

A recording of the webinar presentation along with the presentation slides is available at http://duraspace.org/duraspace-solutions.

ORCID  (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) has launched its Registry (http://orcid.org), where researchers can distinguish themselves by creating a unique profile and personal identifier for themselves.

Announcement: http://about.orcid.org/news/2012/10/16/orcid-launches-registry

Winchester, MA  On Oct. 16 Rick Johnson and Richard Green presented “A Case Study on General Repository Applications using Hydra". This webinar is part of the Hot Topics Community Webinar Series, “Get a Head on Your Repository with Hydra End-to-End Solutions,” curated by Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist at Stanford University Libraries. 

From Sands Fish, Senior Software Engineer MIT Libraries, and the DSpace 3.0 Release Team

DSpace Development never stops! DSpace 3.0 is almost here, and with it arrives numerous new features, improvements, bug-fixes, changes, etc.

We ask that you take a few minutes of your time in these coming weeks to help us fully test this new release! We want to ensure that we are maintaining the same level of quality that you come to expect out of a new DSpace release. We'd also love to hear your early feedback on 3.0!

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the recent release of Fedora 3.6 on Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET. Edwin Shin, Fedora Release Team Leader and Managing Partner and Technical Director, MediaShelf, will be presenting an overview of what's new in Fedora Repository 3.6.

From Dell Global Education Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and DuraSpace

• One of the largest public university libraries in the country uses open source software on Dell DX Object Storage Platform to manage and protect digital assets
• University lowers storage total cost of ownership with scalability to support archive growth

From Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer, DuraSpace

Amathus, Cyprus  The Fourth EuroMed international conference (www.euromed2012.eu) is being organized in cooperation with the European Commission, and is the event of the CY-Presidency of the EU Council on Cultural Heritage. This Pan-European conference is under the Patronage of UNESCO, and will be held during the time period that Cyprus holds the CY-EU Council Presidency. This year the conference will focus on 21st century cultural heritage challenges: