Fedora Repository

Ithaca, NY The Fedora committer team has announced the release of Fedora 3.4.2.

This is a bugfix release that addresses several memory and stability issues with the core repository service.

Many thanks to those in the community who contributed to this release; particularly Janna Wemekamp (FCREPO-774 and FCREPO-823), Jörg Panzer (FCREPO-774), Nigel Thomas (FCREPO-846) and Mark Roy (FCREPO-820). Your help in identifying bugs, submitting patches, and road-testing fixes is very much appreciated.

Ithaca, NY On January 18th the Washington, D.C. Area Fedora Users Meeting was held at the National Museum of the American Indian, hosted by the Smithsonian Institution. Despite icy conditions, about 25 participants attended the all-day meeting. Thornton Staples, Director of Research and Scientific Data Management, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution led the meeting.

Following introductions and a welcome from Thorton Staples presentations about Fedora-related projects–anywhere from pilot phase to mature, production installations–were offered.

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Digital Scholarship, Open Access Publishing Since 1989

Ithaca, NY Collection digitization is a key aspect of preserving the traditionally analog, paper-based scholarly record as societies move towards learning how to preserve and make accessible an increasingly all-digital, all-the-time cultural heritage. The Google Books Project and other partnership efforts are part of a strategy that many academic libraries have adopted to ensure that analog materials are accessible far into the future.

From Thornton Staples, Director of Research and Scientific Data Management, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, DC This is an update about the next Fedora Users Meeting for the Washington DC region. I apologize for double posting, but many people have not yet found our google-groups mailing list. That mailing list can joined at http://groups.google.com/group/dc-fedora-users.

From Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute

From Ina Smith, E-Research Repository Manager, Library and Information Service, University of Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, South Africa The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD2011) will be held from September 13-17, 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa:

http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011

Austin, Texas What role do social interactions play within repository technical communities in developing distributed services and cyberinfrastructure that help create open access to and preservation of our shared digital heritage? The Sixth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) communities will address that question in the state capital of Texas, Austin, often billed as "The Live Music Capital of the World,” from June 8-11, 2011 at the AT&T Conference Center.