Vol. 4, Issue 3, March 2012

in this issue

Announcements

- Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase in March and Win Amazon Gift Cards

Of Interest

- New Open Source Video Digitization Tools from the National Archives

- The Online Submissions System for Open Repositories 2012 is live-Deadline for Pecha Kucha, Posters and Demonstrations March 31

- VIDEO AVAILABLE from "Protests, Petitions & Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012"

- Show Me the Money: National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) "Kickstarting" Crowdsourced Project Funding

- ICPSR Survey on Data Curation Services for Repositories

DSpace News  

- Take Advantage of Key DSpace Features With Version 1.8.2

- DSpace Repositories in January 2012 CSIC "Top Institutional Repositories Ranking"

- Announcing DSpace 3.0 and Changes to DSpace Release Numbering

- SPARC Open Access Meeting and DSpace User Group Meeting Summaries

Fedora News

- NOW AVAILABLE: Red Island Repository Institute (RIRI 2011) Videos Featuring Fedora-Solr-Hydra-DuraCloud++ 

- Hydra at Code{4}Lib 2012

- WGBH Turning Audio and Visual Media into Scholarly Resources for Tomorrow with Hydra and Fedora

DuraCloud News  

- RECORDING AVAILABLE: "DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education"

- Cloud Forecast: Report from JISC Curation in the Cloud Workshop

- NEW DuraCloud for Research Wiki Web Site

Events and Opportunities

- Kaltura DevConnect, NYC, April 2

- Guide to the Spring 2012 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

- Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library & Information Associations

- CALL: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Conference, Lima, Peru, Sept. 12-14

- CALL: Panel Sessions for the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference

For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure 

- For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure: Harvard Library Digital Collections

New Open Source Video Digitization Tools from the National Archives

The National Archives Digitization Services Branch recently completed a project to improve the technical infrastructure options for reformatted video in the cultural heritage community and is pleased to release the final products for use by other institutions and the public.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/new-open-source-video-digitization-tools-national-archives

Related links: http://www.archives.gov/preservation/products/ 

The Online Submissions System for Open Repositories 2012 is live-Deadline for Pecha Kucha, Posters and Demonstrations March 31

The online submissions system for OR12 is live.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/online-submissions-system-open-repositories-2012-live

Related link: http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/submissions/

VIDEO AVAILABLE from "Protests, Petitions & Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012"

A video recording of Columbia University Libraries Scholarly Communication Program event "Protests, Petitions & Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012" is available.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/video-available-protests-petitions-publishing-widening-access-research-2012

Related link: http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/2012/02/16/protests-petitions-and-publishing-widening-access-to-research-in-2012/

Show Me the Money: National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) "Kickstarting" Crowdsourced Project Funding

In the hallways and watering holes around any meeting, conference or informal gathering of friends and colleagues groups of like-minded individuals can be found with their heads together, dreaming up pie-in-the-sky ideas.  Time and resources are required to make anything happen as the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Outreach Working Group has learned.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/show-me-money-national-digital-stewardship-alliance-ndsa-kickstarting-crowdsourced-project-funding

Related link: http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/NDSA

ICPSR Survey on Data Curation Services for Repositories 

What kinds of curation services might help prepare data for deposit in digital repositories?  What kind of tools might ICPSR provide to local repositories to support local data processing?  We would like to hear your ideas.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/icpsr-survey-data-curation-services-repositories

Related links:

General Survey: http://new.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4YJsiX5KRbYMEFC&RID=MLRP_aWfP0LATuNhdXDe

DSpace Users: http://new.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4YJsiX5KRbYMEFC&RID=MLRP_0JSLw1EKQr3zcoY

Fedora Users: http://new.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4YJsiX5KRbYMEFC&RID=MLRP_d05rQp4LQYN16sc

Take Advantage of Key DSpace Features With Version 1.8.2

DSpace is an out-of-the-box open source repository software package for creating repositories focused on delivering digital content to end users, and providing a full set of tools for managing and preserving content within the application.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/take-advantage-key-dspace-features-version-182

Related links: http://www.dspace.org/, https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+1.8.2+Notes

DSpace Repositories in January 2012 CSIC "Top Institutional Repositories Ranking"

@tmire has published an analysis of the recent CSIC Cybermetrics Lab (Spain) Top Institutional Repositories Ranking on @mire's just-released, redesigned web site (http://atmire.com/). 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/dspace-repositories-january-2012-csic-top-institutional-repositories-ranking

Related links: http://repositories.webometrics.info/toprep_inst.asp, https://atmire.com/website/?q=content/webometrics-repository-ranking-january-2012 

Announcing DSpace 3.0 and Changes to DSpace Release Numbering

From Tim Donohue on behalf of the DSpace Committers, "I'd like to formally announce a change to the DSpace Release Numbering Scheme, as well as the upcoming 3.0 release."

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/announcing-dspace-30-and-changes-dspace-release-numbering

Related link: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+3.0+Notes

SPARC Open Access Meeting and DSpace User Group Meeting Summaries

For anyone who was unable to attend SPARC's first Open Access Meeting or the DSpace User Group Meeting held in Kansas City last week there are many useful resources available to learn about what was presented and discussed.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/sparc-open-access-meeting-and-dspace-user-group-meeting-summaries

Related links: http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/blog/SPARC_OA_Meeting_Success.shtml, 

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+2012  

In September of 2011 the Islandora and Discovery Garden teams hosted the annual Red Island Repository Institute (RIRI) on Prince Edward Island in Canada.  You may now access videos of RIRI 2011 presentations.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/now-available-red-island-repository-institute-riri-2011-videos-featuring-fedora-solr-hydra-duracloud

Related link: http://www.youtube.com/user/Islandora  

Hydra at Code{4}Lib 2012

The recent "sold-out" Code{4}Lib Conference was hosted by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and the University of Washington Libraries February 6-9, 2012. Slides are available for two Hydra project presentations of note.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/hydra-code4lib-2012

Related link: http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/dushay

WGBH Turning Audio and Visual Media into Scholarly Resources for Tomorrow with Hydra and Fedora

WGBH was recently awarded an NEH Preservation and Access Research and Development grant  to develop an Open Source Digital Asset Management System for Media Preservation.  This project will develop a digital preservation system for media files based on Hydra, utilizing a Fedora repository that can be easily implemented and hooked into storage systems for preservation.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/wgbh-turning-audio-and-visual-media-scholarly-resources-tomorrow-hydra-and-fedora

Related link: http://www.wgbh.org/about/employmentOpportunities.cfm

RECORDING AVAILABLE: "DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education"

EDUCAUSE members interest in strategies and issues around cloud computing was reflected in many questions following the EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar presented by DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton and Chief Strategy Officer Jonathan Markow on Feb 29, 2012.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/recording-available-duracloud-community-cloud-higher-education

Related link: http://duraspace.org/recording-available-duracloud-community-cloud-higher-education

Cloud Forecast: Report from JISC Curation in the Cloud Workshop

During the JISC Curation in the Cloud Workshop held in London March 7-8, 2012 attendees considered the potential role and benefit cloud computing could play in curation tasks and strategies.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/cloud-forecast-report-jisc-curation-cloud-workshop

Related link: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2012/03/curationinthecloud.aspx

NEW DuraCloud for Research Wiki Web Site

NY DuraCloud for Research (DfR), the cloud-based open source data storage and management project aimed at meeting the specific needs of working scientists, researchers and data managers has launched a web site on the DuraSpace wiki.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/new-duracloud-research-wiki-web-site

Related link: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DURACLOUDDTR/DuraCloud+for+Research

Kaltura DevConnect, NYC, April 2

This year's Kaltura DevConnect is shaping up to be quite an event, featuring a host of amazing speakers and topics.  

Read the post:http://duraspace.org/kaltura-devconnect-nyc-april-2

Related link:http://devconnect.kaltura.org/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokvanIZKXonjHpfsX86%2BovX6Cg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YcHStQhcOuuEwcWGog8yw1UDvWHfQ%3D%3D

Guide to the Spring 2012 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Spring 2012 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Sheraton Inner Harbor  Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland on April 2 and 3, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at CNI member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/guide-spring-2012-coalition-networked-information-membership-meeting

Related link: http://www.cni.org/

Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library & Information Associations

The XXth Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) will be held June 4-8, 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/standing-conference-eastern-central-and-southern-africa-library-information-associations

Related link: http://www.scecsal.org/index.html

CALL: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Conference, Lima, Peru, Sept. 12-14

The theme of ETD 2012 is "Integrating cultures for the creation and sharing of knowledge - providing opportunities for the future". 

Read the post:http://duraspace.org/call-electronic-theses-and-dissertations-etd-conference-lima-peru-sept-12-14

Related links:http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/en/index.asp, http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/en/presentacion-trabajos/index.asp

CALL: Panel Sessions for the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference

When it comes to the selection process for panel sessions at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference, you've all heard the rumors -- "they only accept proposals about information literacy" or "they are just looking for the BIG name presenters" or "they just look for presentations based on original data and research". Now it's time for the truth.

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/call-panel-sessions-association-college-research-libraries-acrl-conference

Related link: http://conference.acrl.org/program-pages-166.php

For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure: Harvard Library Digital Collections

The libraries of great institutions of learning often house widely accessible digital collections alongside valuable physical collections. It is therefore no surprise that Harvard University Library features a remarkable selection of 33 web-accessible collections available online in words, images and annotations transporting web travelers to past times, taking them on esoteric adventures, and presenting them with varied scientific and cultural information. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/your-repository-viewing-pleasure-harvard-library-digital-collections

Related link: http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu/