Data curation

By Chris Wilper The development team is working hard to finalize Fedora 3.2 and has now set a release date of May 5th.  Highlights for this release include a new, web-based GUI for repository administrators and improved storage pluggability, including Amazon S3 support.  Many other improvements and bug fixes will be included.  For a complete list, please visit this page: https://fedora-commons.org/jira/browse/FCREPO/fixforversion/10132.

By Sandy Payette, Executive Director Fedora Commons Welcome to the first issue of HatCheck in 2009. We hope that you have found our quarterly newsletter interesting and informative, and we encourage you to contact us if you have interesting Fedora news to report or events to announce!

Ithaca, NY For better or for worse many of us seem to enjoy tweeting kernals of information in 140 characters or less. The Pew/Internet and American Life Project reports:

11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.

The submission deadline for the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) to be held in Corfu, Greece Sept. 27-Oct. 2, 2009, has been extended. The new submission deadline is Saturday March 28, 2009 (GMT time zone).
Ιmportant Dates webpage, ECDL 2009 website: http://www.ecdl2009.eu.
The Paper Submission System for ECDL 2009 is open:
https://www.softconf.com/a/ecdl09/

Ithaca, NY  Of the 39 Respondents to the Fedora Commons Quick Check Poll for March 2009, 30.8 reported that they are investigating the use of Fedora 3.0 Repository software; 51.3% are in development, and; 17.9% are currently using the software in their operations. 71.1% are using, or plan to use, Fedora 3.0’s the API-M and/or API-A (soap interfaces). 86.8% are developing custom applications, services or components to use with Fedora 3.0. To access the March 2009 Quick Poll results please contact Carol Minton Morris.

New York City Today, Mar 18, 2009, Sun is hosting the CommunityOne East conference at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City to announce Sun’s strategy and roadmap for its public cloud computing service. Dave Douglas and Lew Tucker are keynote speakers at the conference, and will unveil details about Sun’s strategy and roadmap for the public cloud computing space.

Linz, Austria The deadline for submissions of nominations to the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica is March 18, 2009.  If you would like to nominate a digital community  for important achievements as well as innovative artistic approaches towards web-based communities visit Ars Electronica prize categories and submit a nomination.

Washington, D.C. During its three years of operations, the institutional repository at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has gathered and posted over 21,000 documents, which together with its hosted ETD collection make it the third largest institutional repository in the U.S. Usage records also indicate it is one of the busiest, serving up more than 100,000 downloads a month. The repository has also become the cornerstone for a bundle of electronic publishing services developed and provided by the UNL Libraries.

Ithaca, NY Beginning this month, Fedora Commons will conduct brief polls entitled QuickCheck. The goal of this month’s QuickCheck is to learn more about Fedora 3.0 production implementations. Subsequent polls will cover a variety of topics.