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Ithaca, NY This year’s OR10 Conference will be held from July 6 through 9 at the at Palacio de Congresos in Madrid, Spain. As the dates get closer information, who’s who, and various posts-links-tweets-tags (use #OR10 for conference-related items) will be featured on the OR10 Crowdvine (http://or10.crowdvine.com/) site. Organizers encourage all interested open repository community members to register, connect, share ideas and stay tuned for opportunities to participate.

From Scott Phillips, Managing Editor, Journal of Digital Information
The Journal of Digital Information has just published its first issue of 2010 (volume 11, number 1)  at http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/issue/view/91. This issue, edited by John Howard, is a Special Issue with papers invited from Open Repositories 2009 conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The following papers are included in this issue:
Journal of Digital Information
Volume 11, number 1 -  March 2010

Ithaca, NY The mission of the Jewish Women’s Archive (http://jwa.org/) is, “to uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women.” The makers of this in-depth, delightful, and profound collection have developed an Encyclopedia (http://jwa.org/encyclopedia), educational materials, diverse exhibits, book and film guides, a look back at Jewish women’s lives, and a blog featuring colorful stories (http://jwablog.jwa

About the Google Summer of Code from the GSoC web site: “GSoC is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. Google has worked with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period.

Ithaca, NY Chris Wilper, DuraSpace Technical Lead and Developer is pleased to announce the release of Akubra 0.3.
http://fedora-commons.org/go/akubra
Akubra is a Java API that provides read/write access to URI-addressable files.  It is currently used by the Fedora Commons Repository software to provide an adaptable, file-oriented low level storage layer, but it is not Fedora-specific. Akubra achieves a high level of interoperability between storage systems by making simplifying assumptions:

Ithaca, NY The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) offers visitors an “on ramp” to views of the Garden State in historical photographs, mysteries (http://www.njhm.com/index.htm), diners (http://njdiners.com/) and much more. This highly collaborative web site is self-described as a “One stop shop for New Jersey history and culture, from the collections of NJ libraries, museums, archives and historical societies.”

Ithaca, NY If you are new to the idea of what it will take to plan and implement a digital repository for your institution or organization the Digital Repositories infoKit produced by JISC infoNet will help you learn how to develop and run a digital repository. Basic information–general introduction, definition of a repository, drivers, management, and technology are all included in this well-written guide based on current institutional repository best practices.

By Chris Wilper
Ithaca, NY Fedora 3.3: a couple of the (deny-*-if-not-localhost) default policies were updated to work in IPv6 environments by adding ::1 as an acceptable client address (FCREPO-581).
I was recently testing something unrelated, and found when I tried to do certain operations using my browser, authorization failed.  Further digging revealed that in these cases, my client ip address, as
reported by Servlet.getRemoteAddr(), was 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0, which didn’t match the acceptable IP addresses in the default policies.

By Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, DC Three new student films on information sharing have been voted the best by a panel of new media experts, students, and librarians in the third annual Sparky Awards. Organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and adopted by campuses everywhere, the Sparky Awards contest calls on entrants to creatively illustrate in a short video the value of openly sharing ideas.

Ithaca, NY  With the theme, “Open Access Repositories now and in the future–from the global and Asia-Pacific points of view” the Digital Repository Federation International Conference (DRFIC) was held on December 3-4, 2009 in Tokyo and focused on topics relevant to digital repository and open access.