DuraSpace

From Kirsta Stapelfeldt, MA, MLIS, Islandora Project/Repository Manager, Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada The Islandora project announces an RC1 candidate for our Q1 2011 release. We invite the community to download and help us test this candidate in anticipation of our full release.

Highlights: RC1 introduces a new solution pack architecture, which allows for simplified content model installation. We have also added a tabs-based UI for content models.

Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities from Museum Wormianum, 1655. Original source from: Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Today we’d like to announce the official release of DSpace 1.7.1!

DSpace 1.7.1 is a bug-fix release of DSpace. This latest update resolves several key issues, along with a medium-level SECURITY ISSUE in our 1.7.0 release. DSpace 1.7.1 does not introduce any new features, it just resolves issues found in 1.7.0.

Ithaca, NY Calling all students, Google Summer of Code 2011 Applications are due by April 8!

(Professors, please share this with your students! Librarians, please forward to both professors and students!)

YOU CAN EARN $5,000 FOR A BIT OF SUMMER CODING!?!

From Bram Luyten, @mire

From Karla Strieb, Association of Research Libraries

Washington DC The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Digital Curation for Preservation,” the first report in its new series, New Roles for New Times.

http://www.arl.org/news/pr/nrnt-dcreport17mar11.shtml

Washington, DC Eight international research funders are jointly announcing their participation in round two of the Digging into Data Challenge, a grant competition designed to spur cutting edge research in the humanities and social sciences.

From Bonnie Wilson, D-Lib Magazine

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

This issue contains five articles and two conference reports. Also in this issue you can find 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 Galaxy of Images collection courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

The articles include:

From Neil Fraistat, Professor of English & Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH),
University of Maryland