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Get Ready for Webometrics Repository Ranking Data Collection

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:

Submitted by carol on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 2:24pm

A 19th Century View of Shakespeare Through A Djatoka Viewer and DuraCloud

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.

Submitted by carol on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 3:32pm

DSpace in Africa: “Making Agricultural Knowledge Travel”

Nairobi, Kenya A three-day workshop on how to use DSpace to showcase and share broad agricultural knowledge was offered by @mire and held at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) campus in Nairobi earlier this week.

DSpace user Peter Ballantyne, Head of Knowledge Management and Information Services at ILRI organized the workshop to help others learn how to leverage this out-of-the-box, open source repository technology to spread information and share agricultural information.

Submitted by carol on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 3:17pm

Notes on the Scholarly Infrastructure Technical Summit (SITS)

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:

Submitted by carol on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:12am

Vote on Code4Lib Conference Prepared Talks, Bloomington, IN, Feb. 7-10, 2011

Bloomington, IN Voting has begun for Code4Lib 2011 Conference prepared talks. Please vote on 50 prepared talk proposals and let the organizers know how you would like the program to shape up. Thanks to everyone who has contributed!

Vote now:  http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/17

Submitted by carol on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 2:18pm

REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION: "DSpace With Fedora Inside" Application

Ithaca, NY A few months ago, the DuraSpace organization made the recommendation that the DSpace and Fedora user communities work together to integrate the DSpace and Fedora technologies, allowing the DSpace software to run "on top of" the Fedora platform. Essentially, this would mean that the DSpace application would have an option to install it with "Fedora Inside".  DSpace with "Fedora Inside" would be a version of the DSpace application which would store its contents (files and/or metadata) in Fedora.

Making Connections at the DSpace User Group Meeting after SPARC Conference

The recent half-day DSpace User Group Meeting held following the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting provided an opportunity for over 30 DSpace users to hear updates about current development activity with the software and related products as well as participate in a hands-on tutorial on batch metadata editing. Copies of all the presentation slides from the meeting are available here.  Highlights of the meeting included:

Submitted by carol on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 5:15pm
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