Humanities

For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure: Dagomba Dance Drumming from Tufts Digital Library

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).

Register While There’s Still Space Available: CURATEcamp 2011 at Stanford University

From Michael J, Giarlo, The Pennsylvania State University

Those of you who have been following the HBO series, GAME OF THRONES, are probably familiar with the phrase, "Winter is coming."  Well, CURATEcamp is coming!  And without monstrous wolves, ice zombies, and scheming knights. CURATEcamp is a series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation.

Slots for #CURATEcamp 2011 (August 15-16, Stanford Univ., $125 for registration/lodging/meals) are starting to fill up.

DSpace Workshop: Lets Get Started! Creating Institutional Repositories Using Open Source Software

Cape Town, South Africa Join organizers Ina Smith and Hilton Gibson for a one-day workshop on Friday Sept. 16, 2011 focused on creating institutional repositories with DSpace. The Workshop will take place as part of the 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD2011) in Cape Town, South Africa.

http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011

Are You This Year’s Islandora t-shirt Designer?

From the Islandora team at the University of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown, PEI, CA We are calling out to our community in our best open-source fashion, to see if anybody wants to participate in the design of the official 2011 Islandora Camp t-shirt.

You can find a link to source files here: http://islandora.ca/icamptshirt.

Hydra Project Introduces New Web Site at OR11

Austin, TX Bright sun outside and and cool temperatures inside greeted more than 30 participants in the Hydra Workshop offered by Matt Zumwalt, Media Shelf, with help from his friends, on June 7, 2011 in Austin as part of OR11 pre-conference events.

For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure: Easter Island People from University of Hawai' i at Manoa

NOW AVAILABLE: Whitepaper on "The Economics of the AWS Cloud vs. Owned IT Infrastructure"

Seattle, WA Read this whitepaper from the Amazon Web Services Team to learn how companies are finding significant cost savings, faster time to market, and more flexibility by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.

Semantic Web Summer School

Ceredilla, Spain The 8th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2011) Organizing Committee has made the program for the July 10-16 event available on line. SSSW 2011 will be held in Ceredilla, Spain (near Madrid) at the Universidad Politècnica de Madrid's student house.

http://sssw.org/2011/index.php

DuraCloud Demos at OR11

Ithaca, NY If you are traveling to the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) in Austin, Texas next week please stop by the DuraSpace table where we will be conducting ongoing DuraCloud demonstrations. We look forward to seeing members of our open source communities in celebration of another great year.

Along with conference presentations from many DSpace and Fedora community members, these DuraSpace-related events may be of interest:

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