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Cohen gave reasons for why he believes that the the web way–serendipitous experimentation that occasionally creates something great–and the academic way are very different. Illustration LibCom.org.

Kyoto, Japan "Culture and Computing 2011" will be held October 20-22, 2011 at The Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Japan. Conference web site:

http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2011/

Washington, DC Thornton Staples, Director of Research and Scientific Data Management, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution, has announced that the Smithsonian Institution will host the next Fedora Users Meeting as part of an occasional series of Fedora Users meetings for the Washington DC region, which includes Maryland and Virginia. All of you in Charlottesville and Baltimore, please take note! Anyone else is welcome as well, but the goal of these meetings to bring people from the greater DC region together to see if we can get some collaboration going.

Ithaca, NY Chris Wilper, Technical Lead, Fedora Repository Project, DuraSpace has announced that the Fedora Commons Repository source code has been fully migrated to GitHub, where you can collaborate with others, fork, send pull requests and manage public and private git repositories using a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software. Currently 500,000 people hosting over 1,502,000 git repositories.

https://github.com/fcrepo

By Bram Luyten, @mire

Leuven, Belgium Early in 2011, the CSIC Cybermetrics Lab (Spain) will harvest, analyze and publish data about online visibility of IRs in its Top 800 Institutional Repository Ranking. The January ranking will reflect the visibility of repositories in different online search engines. A limited time window is being used to get a snapshot of data. Here is the ranking production schedule:

Ithaca, NY Sometimes you need more intellectual clout than Google can deliver if you want to win an argument. For example, maybe you think you heard on the radio or read somewhere that more people are working from home than ever before.  Your friend says over lunch that she believes this is just not true. In response you fire-up your smart phone and set about getting the facts. Where do you go online to find reliable employment statistics over time?

Ithaca, NY Before continuous tone photography, and way before there were instant digital capture devices for recording and processing digital images, there were engravings. The process of using sharp tools (gravers) to incise an image on a metal or glass plate so that a reverse print of that image could be created by spreading ink on the plate and pressing paper into the inked design is known as engraving. This method of recording images was used extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to illustrate the news stories of the day.

Ithaca, NY Highlights, news and information from DuraSpace developers, communities and partners is now available in the current issue of DuraSpace Digest:

Ithaca, NY Dave Challis, Systems Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, has provided a summary of the recent SITS meeting held in San Jose, CA. The goal of the group (https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddpd4q4q_189f49xsjcn) is to: