DSpace

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, DC Proposals are now being invited to the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies and strategies are showcased in engaging, informative rapid-fire presentations. SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, is hosting the next installment of this popular meeting on November 8 & 9, 2010 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

Ithaca, NY A common observation regarding technology innovation is that as soon as you get comfortable with using whatever is on your laptop or running your institution’s repository system, it’s out of date. For large knowledge institutions where approval and funding to upgrade software and systems may take a long time, this conundrum makes staying ahead of technology developments particularly challenging.

From Valorie Hollister, Director of Community Development, DSpace Project, DuraSpace
Ithaca, NY There will be a one day DSpace User Group Meeting on November 10, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, immediately following the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0513.shtml) on November 8 and 9.
A big thank you to @mire (http://atmire.com/), a Registered DSpace Service Provider, who is sponsoring the DSpace meeting.

Contact Michele Kimpton (mkimpton@duraspace.org) for more information.

Ithaca, NY The AUC DAR Repository (http://dar.aucegypt.edu:8080/jspui/) was recently launched as an open access institutional repository based on DSpace that was designed to improve scholarly communications at AUC and beyond. AUC DAR features oral histories, views of artifacts, jewelry, image collections and much more including a collection of Egyptian postcards:
http://dar.aucegypt.edu:8080/jspui/handle/10526/52

Ithaca, NY Before there were sophisticated online multi-player games with realistic graphics and entire virtual worlds, children and some adults were playing in gaming parlors and through low-tech analog TVs connected to hand-held control devices. Classic favorites such as PacMan and Tetris may survive into the future because new versions are still available and in use. Less well-known games may not survive beyond their commercial shelf-life.

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

By Bram Luyten, @mire

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”.

Madrid, Spain Lead DuraCloud developers for DuraSpace Bill Branan and Andrew Woods will offer a demonstration at 5:15 to 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium at Palacio de Congresos during the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR10). The demonstration will follow a presentation by Michele Kimption, “Integrating Your Repository with Cloud Infrastructure–Benefits and Challenges Identified in the DuraCloud Pilot Program.”