DSpace/Fedora

University of Hull's Hydra Goes Live

From Richard Green, Consultant to Library & Learning Innovation, University of Hull, managing the Hydrangea in Hull and Hydra (Hull) Projects

Hull, UK The Hydra in Hull team is pleased to announce:

hydra.hull.ac.uk

Submitted by carol on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 9:35am

"Case Studies in Sustainability" from Ithaka S+R

From Marita La Monica, ITHAKA

New York, NY Ithaka S+R, with funding from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, revisited twelve digital projects first profiled in 2009 to understand the impact of the economic downturn on each project’s sustainability model. Ithaka S+R will be releasing a final report, a toolkit, and offering a series of free webinars in October 2011.

Submitted by carol on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 9:51am

CALL for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Annual Conferences, 2013 and 2014

Dublin, Ireland The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks proposals from candidate host organisations for the 2013 and 2014 Open Repositories Annual Conferences. Preference will be given to North American hosts for OR2013, and to European hosts for OR2014. Proposals from all geographic areas will, however, are given consideration.

Important Dates

The Committee is accepting proposals to host OR2013 through October 28, 2011. Please submit initial expressions of interest by October 7, 2011.

Submitted by carol on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 8:46pm

CALL: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012)

Limerick, Ireland Submissions are invited for the the Fourth Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012), to be held May 22 - 25, 2012, in Limerick, Ireland. The Fifth QQML 2013 International Conference will be organized in Rome, Italy.

Conference web site: http://www.isast.org/

Submitted by carol on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 10:29am

Online DSpace and Fedora Workshop from EIFL

Utrecht, Netherlands On Sept. 9, 2011 EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-OA are hosting an online workshop to focus on methods for setting up DSpace and Fedora repositories for open access research literature, scientific data, theses, reports and multimedia. This free online workshop "Open Access Repositories with DSpace and Fedora" will be held: Friday September 9, 10.00 - 11.00 UK time (11.00 – 12.00 CEST). Program and registration details are available here:

Submitted by carol on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 9:26am

How “Big” are DSpace Repositories?

Ithaca, NY Determining how many resources will be managed in an institutional repository is a key point in determining how to set it up and which technologies to use. A discussion on the DSpace users list provided information about DSpace repositories with large numbers of items. The discussion began with the simple question, "Anyone know what is the largest repository of DSpace and how many items it has?"

Submitted by carol on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 11:45am

DuraCloud Video Pilot Kick-Off Meeting

Cambridge, MA On August 4, 2011, the DuraCloud team kicked off the DuraCloud Video Pilot Project with a one day meeting with pilot institutions the Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) and WGBH Boston. The goal of the DuraCloud Video Pilot is to have a robust video offering embedded in the DuraCloud platform that will be available to the public through the DuraCloud service.

Submitted by csmith on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 9:40am
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