DSpace/Fedora

Ithaca, NY The DSpace turnkey institutional repository application and the Fedora framework for building digital repositories are open source technologies that have contributed to the preservation of all types of evolving forms of digital assets.

Ithaca, NY On Jan. 11, 2012 Chris Wilper, DuraSpace Technical Lead and Developer, gave a web seminar presentation about how to easily back-up and restore Fedora (http://fedora-commons.org) repository content in DuraCloud (http://duracloud.org) with the CloudSync (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/CLOUDSYNC/Fedora+CloudSync+Project) utility.

From Atifa Rawan and Yan Han, University of Arizona Libraries

Customer requested features improve content control in the cloud

Ithaca, NY The newest DuraCloud release provides fine-grained access control over your content in the cloud with significant user administration improvements:

• Improved access control–Account administrators can now create access control lists indicating which users and groups have read and/or write access to the content within a DuraCloud space;

From Heather Morrison, Simon Fraser University School of Communication

Vancouver, Canada The December 31, 2011 issue of The Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available at:

Ithaca, NY Earlier this month 20 Hydra Project Partners, current and prospective, (http://projecthydra.org) met in Palo Alto to share demonstrations, institutional updates and discuss ongoing development issues and priorities.

About Hydra

From Robin Taylor, EDINA, University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, UK We have a new bug-fix release of DSpace 1.8 available: DSpace 1.8.1

This small bug fix release addresses a number of issues that have cropped up since 1.8.0. A list of the issues can be found here.

Ithaca, NY Slides and video recordings from recent DuraSpace web seminars are now available.

About DuraCloud Technical Overview Web Seminar

Ithaca, NY DuraSpace gold sponsor Emory University Library is currently featuring an exhibition entitled "Shadows of the Sun" at the Schatten Gallery located on campus in the Woodruff Library. The exhibit highlights the lives and times of Harry and Caresse Crosby who founded the avant garde Black Sun Press in 1927.

Ithaca, NY Please join DSpace technical lead Tim Donohue for a free webinar overview of the DSpace Curation System and how you can seamlessly use the DSpace "Replication Task Suite" add-on to back up your content to DuraCloud through the DSpace user interface.

Date: Nov 30, 2011
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Hosted By: DuraSpace
Presented By: Tim Donohue (DSpace technical lead)