TOOLS FOR DECISION-MAKERS: DURASPACE OPEN TECHNOLOGIES SPEC SHEETS
These 8 1/2" x 14" downloadable and printable open technologies spec sheets for DSpace Repository Software, Fedora Commons Repository Software, and Mulgara RDF Database Software are easy-to-use evaluation tools that will help you compare DuraSpace open technology features with requirements for storage, management, preservation, and dissemination of your digital assets -- at-a-glance. Printed DuraSpace open technologies spec sheets are also convenient hand-outs for informational meetings and events. Please feel free to contact us with additional questions.
- DSpace Repository Software Open Technologies Spec Sheet -- [view] [download PDF]
- Fedora Commons Repository Software Open Technologies Spec Sheet -- [view] [download PDF]
- Mulgara RDF Database Software Open Technologies Spec Sheet -- [view] [download PDF]
INSPIRATION: DURASPACE/SPARC OPEN ACCESS WEEK CONTEST
Last month DuraSpace and SPARC co-sponsored an OA Week Contest to discover and highlight stories about online development and dissemination of diverse, and often hidden, digital assets.
The three winners are Luise Barnikel, Sales and Marketing Associate, IssueLab (http://www.issuelab.org/), who described the "2008 flexAbility Toolkit" designed to help employers with workplace disability issues in her winning entry entitled, "Social Policy Research: How Access Shaped Practice." Bryan Beecher, Director, Computing & Network Services, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/), University of Michigan, supports the mission of ICPSR which has delivered content using advanced technologies for six decades. He won with his entry, "Cold, Dark, and Lonely: An Archive Moves Online." The history and culture of Forsythe County, North Carolina is the focus of a collection of over 12000 digital images (http://digitalforsyth.org) that Erik Mitchell described in his winning story "Building a Community Digital Library Using Dspace."
Read the winning entries on the DuraSpace blog here.
EDUCATION: LEARN MORE ABOUT DURASPACE OPEN TECHNOLOGIES WITH FREE "ALL ABOUT REPOSITORIES" WEB SEMINARS
DuraSpace/Sun/SPARC "All About Repositories" web seminars provide updates and reviews of new open technologies. They provide a live forum for keeping in touch with open source technology developments from your office or while you are on the road. You may register for an upcoming seminar here, or listen to recent webcasts at your convenience:
- Easy-to-use DuraSpace Repositories Enabling Open Access: Islandora, DSpace and NSDL EduPak
Presenters unpack three OA, out-of-the-box repository solutions that help make your digital assets available to your community "ASAP." Mark Leggott, University Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island, will explain Islandora, based on the easy-to-use Drupal content management system with Fedora Commons Repository Software on the back end. Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace Community Outreach for DSpace, will talk about DSpace Repository software used by more than 700 institutions globally. Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace Marketing and Communications and NSDL Communications, will introduce NSDL EduPak 1.0, a lightweight version of the open source digital library platform used to power the National Science Digital Library that is designed to meet the needs of national educational organizations and institutions focused on establishing specialized digital collections. -- 60 min., September 9, 2009 - DuraSpace Updates from Fedora Commons and DSpace
DuraSpace flagship open source repository platforms are preparing to release new versions of Fedora (late 2009) and DSpace (October 2009). Presenters Chris Wilper and Brad McLean give overviews of current Fedora and DSpace development initiatives and community updates. -- 60 min., September 30, 2009 - Focus on DuraCloud at Library of Congress (LOC) NDIIPP
Michele Kimpton, Chief Business Officer of DuraSpace, presents an overview of the DuraCloud platform, currently in development. Her presentation includes details about the current DuraCloud pilot program in progress with New York Public Library and Biodiversity Heritage Library. -- 60 min., September 30, 2009