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From Paul F. Uhlir, Director, Board on Research Data and Information Washington, DC  The U.S. CODATA and the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is pleased to announce the publication of a new report: Out of Cite, Out of Mind: The Current ... [More] State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of Data. The report was authored by the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices and edited by Yvonne M. Socha. The project was directed by the staff of the US CODATA/BRDI. The report was published by the CODATA Data Science Journal on September 13, 2013 and is available freely and openly online at: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/12/0/12_OSOM13-043/_article. The document is available electronically only and was not published in print form. The report discusses the current state of data citation policies and practices, its supporting infrastructure, a set of guiding principles for implementing data citation, challenges to implementation of good data citation practices, and open research questions. This is the second report on data citation issues that has been published by the collaboration of the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group and the US CODATA/BRDI. The first report, For Attribution-Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards (2012), is freely and openly available from the National Academies Press online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13564. We are especially grateful to the volunteers who participated in the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group and the reviewers of the report, as well to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CODATA, and Microsoft Research for their financial support of this activity. Questions or comments about the report and the project are welcome and may be directed to Paul F. Uhlir at [email protected]. [Less]

Winchester, MA  Vagrant can be used to spin up a temporary Virtual Machine (VM) in about 10-15minutes in a variety of providers (VirtualBox, VMWare, Amazon AWS, etc). 'Vagrant-dspace' uses Vagrant–a tool that creates/destroys VMs–and Puppet to ... [More] auto-install latest DSpace on the VM provider of your choice (so far primarily tested with VirtualBox). Currently, it's only usable as a testing/demo of DSpace (not for production). It makes installing DSpace for testing/demos a simple process that is entirely automated. More information: https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace Some example use cases for 'vagrant-dspace':   • Lets you easily install the latest version of DSpace on a Virtual Machine in order to try it out or test upgrades, etc. • Lets you easily setup an offline/local copy of DSpace for demos at conferences or similar. • Lets you quickly setup a DSpace development environment on a Virtual Machine. You'd need to install your IDE of choice, but besides that, everything else is installed for you. • Vagrant VMs are "throwaway". Can easily destroy the VM and recreate at will for testing purposes or as needs arise (e.g. vagrant destroy; vagrant up) • This work began as a collaborative project between Tim Donohue and Hardy Pottinger, but has now been more broadly accepted.   [Less]

Winchester, MA  DuraSpace is hiring. To get up-to-date information about career opportunities at DuraSpace bookmark http://duraspace.org/jobs.  About DuraSpace DuraSpace (duraspace.org) is a not for profit 501(c)3 company.  We work with academic ... [More] and cultural heritage institutions around the world to develop and deploy open source software solutions for managing and providing long term access to their digital cultural materials.  Our mission is to provide leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital content. DuraSpace was born out of two academic open source software projects, DSpace (dspace.org) and Fedora Commons (fedora-commons.org).  We work with a community of vibrant open source developers from all over the world.  We offer a number of services to our community based on our open source technologies to help them advance their goals of making materials persistent and available to all.   [Less]

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, CNI Washington, DC  The Fall 2013 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 9-10 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. Registration materials are being sent to ... [More] designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Tuesday, November 12. For more information, see the meeting website: http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/ We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a specific institutional project related to digital information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via online form: http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/submit-a-proposal/ or via an e-mail message to Joan Lippincott at [email protected]. Proposal submissions are due no later than Monday, October 21. The Twitter hashtag for this meeting is #cni13f.   [Less]

Barcelona, Spain  Organizers of the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II Action Assembly have issued a call for posters. This event will assemble digital preservation leaders from a variety of backgrounds including national ... [More] libraries, academic libraries and archives, research centres, public libraries, information science/management programs, archives, corporations, and funding agencies to carry out international alignment activities to support the preservation of our collective digital memory. ANADP II offers the opportunity to showcase posters addressing the conference theme–alignment within the digital preservation community. Posters will be exhibited throughout the event on the historic patio of the Biblioteca de Catalunya. The top three posters’ presenters will each get three minutes at the main podium to share their posters’ concepts with the plenary audience. Full poster proposal guidelines are attached. The Submission Deadline is September 30, 2013, and Acceptance Notification will be made by October 16, 2013. About the ANADP II Event   ANADP II will be a highly participatory event in which stakeholders will engage in facilitated discussions and action sessions to produce a set of concrete outcomes for the extended digital preservation community in three areas: Community Alignment, Resource Alignment, and Capacity Alignment. Keynotes Opening Keynote: Clifford A. Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information) Closing Keynote: Adam Farquhar (The British Library) Panel Chairs Joy Davidson (Digital Curation Centre) Rachel Frick (DLF) Neil Grindley (JISC) Martin Halbert (University of North Texas) Tyler Walters (Virginia Tech) Speakers include: Lluís Anglada (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya/MetaArchive Cooperative) Juan Bicarregui (Research Data Alliance) Luciana Duranti (InterPARES/CISCRA) Kostas Glinos (Head of Unit, C1 e-Infrastructure, European Commission) Chris Greer (RDA, NIST) Cathy Hartman (International Internet Preservation Consortium, UNT) Michele Kimpton (DuraSpace) Ross King (SCAPE, OPF) Steve Knight (National Library of New Zealand) Christopher (Cal) Lee (UNC-Chapel Hill) Liz Lyon (UKOLN) Nancy McGovern (MIT, DPM Workshop) Gail McMillan (Virginia Tech) Mr. Ferran Mascarell (Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia) Mary Molinaro (University of Kentucky, DPOE/NDSR) Laura Molloy (DigCurV) Maureen Pennock (The British Library) Oya Y. Rieger (Cornell University) Eugènia Serra (Director of Biblioteca de Catalunya) Matt Schultz (MetaArchive Cooperative) Sabine Schrimpf (nestor) Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute) Aaron Trehub (Auburn University/ADPNet) Paul Wheatley (SPRUCE Project) Martha Whitehead (Education and Training Sub-Committee of Research Data Canada) Tom Wilson (The University of Alabama/ADPNet) Jeremy York (HathiTrust/University of Michigan) Eld Zierau (Royal Library of Denmark) Registration and conference information: http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADPII/registration [Less]

Hollywood, CA  In association with the AMIA annual conference (http://www.amiaconference.com), the Association of Moving Image Archivists and DLF (Digital Library Federation) will host its first ever hack day on November 6, 2013 in Richmond, VA. The ... [More] event will be a unique opportunity for practitioners and managers of digital audiovisual collections to join with developers and engineers for an intense day of collaboration to develop solutions for digital audiovisual preservation and access. It will be fun and practical…and there will be prizes! This year's hack day is a partnership between AMIA and the Digital Library Federation. A robust and diverse community of practitioners who advance research, teaching and learning through the application of digital library research, technology and services, DLF brings years of experience creating and hosting events designed to foster collaboration and develop shared solutions for common challenges. What is a hack day? A hack day or hackathon is an event that brings together computer technologists and practitioners for an intense period of problem solving through computer programming. Within digital preservation and curation communities, hack days provide an opportunity for archivists, collection managers, and others to work together with technologists to develop software solutions for digital collections management needs. Hack days have been held independently by groups such as the Open Planets Foundation, as well as in association with preservation and access oriented conferences including Open Repositories and Museums and the Web. The manifesto of a recent event at the Open Repositories conference framed the benefits this way: “Transparent, fun, open collaboration in diversely constituted teams...The creation of new professional networks over the ossification of old ones. Effective engagement of non-developers (researchers, repository managers) in development...Work done at the conference over presentation of something prepared earlier.” What if I’m not a developer/technologist/engineer? Content managers and preservation practitioners will be as central to the success of the event as keen developers. YOU will be responsible for setting the agenda and the outcomes. The goal is to foster collaboration between audiovisual preservation specialists and technologists, to solve problems together and share expertise. Why an AMIA hack day? An audiovisual preservation-themed CURATEcamp was held in April 2013, drawing over 120 registrants from at least 3 continents for a day of great conversations and lightning talks. CURATEcamp is as series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation. The event generated a lot of documentation and articulated many shared concerns. Topics covered included digitization of video, film scanning, digital storage strategies, proprietary digital video files in collections, and technical metadata for preservation. The participants of the event agreed that more work needed to be done and action taken, so the idea for an AMIA hack day was born. Discussions between managers of audiovisual collections and solutions developers provided a fruitful starting point for a hack day project ideas, including: Simple fixity tools to use when transferring files from one storage medium to another Technical metadata extraction and making use of these reports (MediaInfo, ffprobe) Simple cataloging tools for AV, with eye towards contemporary frameworks/schema Discovery tools/UX for audiovisual collections, access at scale What will be the format of the event? In advance of the hack day, project ideas will be collected through the registration form and the event wiki. On the morning of the event, participants will review and discuss submitted project ideas. We’ll then break into groups consisting of technologists and practitioners, selecting an idea to work on together for the day and (if desired) throughout the duration of the AMIA conference in the developers lounge. Projects will be presented during the conference closing plenary, Saturday November 9 at 8:30am. Projects will be judged by a panel as well as by conference attendees. How can I participate? Sign up! As this will be a highly participatory event, registration is limited to those willing to get their hands dirty, so no onlookers please. If you are unsure whether you can or want to participate in the hack day itself, you can still see the results by attending the AMIA closing plenary, where hack day projects will be presented, and the audience will have an opportunity to vote on their favorites. Ready to sign up and join the fun? REGISTER HERE. It’s free. Questions? Want more information? Interested in sponsoring by supporting the space or providing prizes? Interested in being a judge? Contact the organizers: Lauren Sorensen: laurens [at] bavc [dot] org Steven Villereal: villereal [at] gmail [dot] com Kara Van Malssen: kara [at] avpreserve [dot] com About DLF The Digital Library Federation, a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) , is a robust and diverse community of practitioners who advance research, teaching and learning through the application of digital library research, technology and services. DLF serves as a resource and catalyst for collaboration among digital library developers, project managers, and all who are invested in digital library issues. About AMIA The Association of Moving Image Archivists is a non-profit professional association established to advance the field of moving image archiving by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, description, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials. [Less]

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, CNI Washington, DC  Registration is open for the ARL Fall Forum 2013, Mobilizing the Research Enterprise, to be held in Arlington, Virginia, October 10–11. The program will explore the response ... [More] to the White House memorandum “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research.” An opening keynote address will be presented by Richard McCarty, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University; CNI director Clifford Lynch, will moderate the panel discussion "Facilitating New Forms of Discovery." Sessions at this year's Fall Forum will cover a range of topics including infrastructure, discovery, policy issues, and data management/data sharing. For details, and to register, see http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/2888-register-now-for-arl-fall-forum-mobilizing-the-research-enterprise [Less]

From The DSpace Committers Team Winchester, MA  The DSpace Committers have announced their intention to release DSpace 4.0 in early December 2013. DSpace 4.0 will be the next major release of the platform, providing new features/improvements/fixes ... [More] to the existing DSpace platform.  We are in the early planning process for 4.0 features, but you can follow along on the 4.0 Release Notes page: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+4.0+Notes The DSpace Committers will continue to strive to release one major version of DSpace each year, followed by any necessary minor releases (to fix any bugs that may be found). If you or your institution would like to contribute features/code to this release, we'd encourage you to send us a "Pull Request." The deadline for initial submissions is October 7.  For more details see the release notes page (linked above). We also offer additional "Code Contribution Guidelines" at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Code+Contribution+Guidelines to help ensure the smooth integration of your contribution.  [Less]

From Bram Luyten, @mire Windhoek, Namibia  The Scholarly Communication Africa Programme within the University of Namibia is set to launch the scholarly repository https://repository.unam.na and digital collections archive http://digital.unam.na ... [More] later in the year. The institutional digital repository provides online access to myriad publications and research output at the University. The repository service collects, preserves, and distributes digital material of a scholarly nature. The digital collections archive serves as a general storage space for other forms of content not suitable for the scholarly repository. This space can accommodate a mix of research and teaching content, and currently houses UNAM exam papers, undergraduate thesis and dissertations etc. The scholarly repository and digital collections archive were setup using a software application named Dspace. DSpace is an open source repository application for delivering digital content to end-users. DSpace application tools enable digital content management and easy navigation for end-users. It provides the flexibility to deposit and manage electronic documents, images and links. The University engaged @mire for customization of the themes and development of batch ingest utilities. The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) is a research and implementation initiative aimed at increasing the visibility and developmental impact of a spectrum of research outputs from universities in Southern Africa. Repository support of scholarly communication is a core component of the institutional mission to boost the visibility of research at universities. [Less]

From James Evans, Product Manager-Open Repository, BioMed Central London, UK  Open Repository builds, hosts and customizes DSpace repositories for institutions, enabling the institution to focus on managing and developing content within their ... [More] repository. Through Open Repository and Open Repository Lite, clients can choose a package to suit their needs. Open Repository offers clients the full services required to successfully run a repository, while Open Repository Lite offers is aimed at clients from emerging and developing countries, requiring a simple install at a cost effective price. Earlier this year, Open Repository welcomed its first South American repository client, the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), who launched their repository, DELFOS, in March. UPC decided that Open Repository was the perfect service to fulfil the open access requirements for their Institute. UPC needed a provider that could fully manage their repository, while giving them the technical support to manage their own content. UPC is a private and independent educational institution, opened in 1994, whose aim is to educate, carry out research and promote knowledge, culture and development in Peru. Its mission is to produce innovative leaders with the integrity and vision to transform Peru. Visit the repository here and download the case study here [Less]