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Report from the DC Region Fedora Users Meeting

Ithaca, NY On October 14, 2011 the DC Region Fedora Users Group held their semi-annual meeting in Washington, DC to exchange information on formative Fedora repository projects and inititatives. While highlights included lunch from the Hula Girl Truck ("bringing a taste of the Hawaiian Islands to DC") 13 projects and 38 attendees were on hand to share updates about how Fedora repository software is being implemented in government and cultural institutions.
Submitted by carol on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:34pm

"Case Studies in Sustainability" from Ithaka S+R

From Marita La Monica, ITHAKA

New York, NY Ithaka S+R, with funding from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, revisited twelve digital projects first profiled in 2009 to understand the impact of the economic downturn on each project’s sustainability model. Ithaka S+R will be releasing a final report, a toolkit, and offering a series of free webinars in October 2011.

Submitted by carol on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:51am

How “Big” are DSpace Repositories?

Ithaca, NY Determining how many resources will be managed in an institutional repository is a key point in determining how to set it up and which technologies to use. A discussion on the DSpace users list provided information about DSpace repositories with large numbers of items. The discussion began with the simple question, "Anyone know what is the largest repository of DSpace and how many items it has?"

Submitted by carol on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 11:45am

DuraCloud Video Pilot Kick-Off Meeting

Cambridge, MA On August 4, 2011, the DuraCloud team kicked off the DuraCloud Video Pilot Project with a one day meeting with pilot institutions the Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) and WGBH Boston. The goal of the DuraCloud Video Pilot is to have a robust video offering embedded in the DuraCloud platform that will be available to the public through the DuraCloud service.

Submitted by csmith on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 9:40am

NOW AVAILABLE: July/August 2011 Issue of D-Lib Magazine

From Bonnie Wilson, D-Lib Magazine

The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

This issue contains four articles, two conference reports, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.  This month, D-Lib features the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives web site.

The articles include:

Submitted by carol on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 9:11am

Save the Dates: OR12 in Edinburgh, Scotland July 9-13, 2012

Winchester, MA The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from July 9-13, 2012. To get announcements about this event and other OR-related communications, you may join the OR announcements mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.

Submitted by carol on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 12:05pm
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