DSpace/Fedora

From Joe Velaidum, Vice-President, DiscoveryGarden Inc.

From Bram Luyten, @mire.

Leuven, Belgium A diverse group of 50 attendees, both developers as well as repository managers, gathered on June 21, 2011 for the @mire and Duraspace -sponsored DSpace Pre-Conference User Group.

Statistics and Repository Exposure

From Julia Flanders, Director, Women Writers Project, Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library

From Stuart Lewis, Digital Development Manager, Te Tumu Herenga, The University of Auckland Library (on behalf of the DSpace committers group)

Auckland, New Zealand The DSpace committers team are delighted to announce a new member to the group: Andrea Schweer.

Nottingham, UK The latest event for the Repository Support Project: "Repositories and CRIS (Current Research Information Systems): Working smartly together. Conference and Software Exhibition," will take place at Nottingham University Park Conference Centre on July 19, 2011. This one-day event is free of charge to participants.

http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/repositories-and-cris-systems-working-smartly-together/

Goettingen, Germany Following the first successful Supporting the Digital Humanities (SDH) Conference in Vienna in 2010, the CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/external/) and DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) initiatives have decided to jointly organize the second SDH conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 17-18 in Copenhagen. The conference venue will be at the University of Copenhagen, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH.

Originally planned as a library, the University of Texas at Austin's tower is now used primarily as administrative offices. The 27-floor structure was completed in 1937.

Winchester, MA Dagomba dance drumming originated in the kingdom of Dagbon which is located within the West African country of Ghana on the Ivory Coast. The music consists of four combined drum parts with each individual piece of music conveying special meaning. Dagomba performers are often members of a clan of drummers whose instruments consist of the lunga (talking drum) and the gungon (bass drum).

From Art Pasquinelli, Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle 

Redwood City, CA I would like to take this opportunity to announce that Stanford's Tom Cramer will now take the helm of the PASIG and will help guide it into an independent organization status. I will continue to be formally involved, as will Mike Keller, and continuing and new steering committee members (TBD). Expect to see a posting from Tom on the PASIG website in the next several days.