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CALL: Open Repositories 2011 (OR11) to Focus on Collaboration and Community

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.
Submitted by carol on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 12:42pm

DSpace 1.7.0 is available now!

On behalf of the DSpace Committers, we would like to formally announce that DSpace 1.7.0 is now available!

DSpace 1.7.0 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations:

• SourceForge
• Subversion

In addition, you are welcome to try out DSpace 1.7.0 on http://demo.dspace.org/ and continue to provide any early feedback you may have.

DSpace 1.7.0 is available now!

On behalf of the DSpace Committers, we would like to formally announce that DSpace 1.7.0 is now available!

DSpace 1.7.0 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations:

• SourceForge
• Subversion

In addition, you are welcome to try out DSpace 1.7.0 on http://demo.dspace.org/ and continue to provide any early feedback you may have.

Fedora Repository Source Code Now Available on GitHub

Ithaca, NY Chris Wilper, Technical Lead, Fedora Repository Project, DuraSpace has announced that the Fedora Commons Repository source code has been fully migrated to GitHub, where you can collaborate with others, fork, send pull requests and manage public and private git repositories using a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software. Currently 500,000 people hosting over 1,502,000 git repositories.

https://github.com/fcrepo

Submitted by carol on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 11:19am

Open Repositories 2011, "Collaboration and Community: The Social Mechanics of Repository Systems"

Austin, Texas What is the role of social interactions within repository technical communities in developing strong, distributed services and cyberinfrastructure to 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.

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

Hydra Camp and Hydra Partners Quarterly Meeting–November 4-6, 2010

Palo Alto, CA Tom Cramer, Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources, has announced that there will be a Hydra Partners meeting on November 4, 5 and 6th at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. These meetings are open to the Hydra community. Both current and prospective members are encouraged to participate.

DuraSpace recommends DSpace & Fedora Integration initiative

At Open Repositories 2010, DuraSpace has recommended that the DSpace and Fedora communities investigate strategies to allow DSpace software to run “on top of” the Fedora platform. The goal of the initiative would be to add an option to install the DSpace application with “Fedora Inside”.

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