Fedora Repository

Find out about the Fedora Repository framework for rapidly producing web applications.

Winchester, MA  DuraSpace is pleased to announce the third 2012 Hot Topics Webinar Series, Get a Head on Your Repository with Hydra End-to-End Solutions. DuraSpace web seminars fill up fast so be sure to reserve your spot today!

From Andrea Higginbotham, SPARC <andrea@arl.org>, and Devika Levy, World Bank <

This is the final week to register for the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute!  There are just a few openings available for the fall 2012 offering, which runs from September 6 through December 13. To register, visit http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute. 

DuraSpace was represented by staff and community members at the Seventh International Open Repositories Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland July 9-13, 2012. The following strategic overviews and links to slides and videos are provided for those who were unable to attend the conference.
 

Winchester, MA Why attend the fall 2012 E-Science Institute?

D. Scott Brandt, Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University Libraries and 2011 E-Science Institute participant suggests, “The E-Science Institute helps you get a handle on e-Science so you can articulate where and how to support research in new ways. The ESI faculty’s  experience, knowledge and guidance make this an excellent program. Participants have to do their share of the work, but the outcomes and networking are very much worth it.”

From Nate Heasley, Executive Director of Goodnik.

Ithaca, NY Along with a some new features the release team delivered a significant bit of under-the-hood retooling with the release of Fedora 3.6. The retooling consists of:

• upgrading the web services framework, and
• completing the migration to a modern configuration and management framework (aka Spring).

Increased standards support and expanded Spring-based configuration in Fedora 3.6

From Andrea Goethals, Digital Preservation and Repository Services Manager Harvard Library, on behalf of the Standards and Practices Working Group, National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)

Ithaca, NY According to Wikipedia Twitter has 500 million users and sees 340 million tweets per day. This is just one indicator that people and organizations are now sharing and accessing every kind of news and information in 140 characters, via YouTube and, or through one or more customized social media pipes on many types of devices. How do your web site stats look these days?