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OR2013 conference session, Charlottetown PEI, Canada The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks proposals from candidate host organizations for the 2015 Annual International Open Repositories Conference. Proposals from all geographic areas ... [More] will be given consideration. Important Dates The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting proposals to host the OR2015 conference until September 30, 2013. Initial expressions of interest or questions about OR2015 are encouraged and should be received by August 22, 2013. Candidate institutions must have the ability to host a four-day conference of approximately 350-500 attendees (OR2012 held in Edinburgh, UK drew approximately 450 attendees). This includes appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and transportation, as well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services (food services, internet services, and conference social events; conference web site; management of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and their local arrangements committee must have the means to support the costs of producing the conference through attendee registration and independent fundraising. The OR Steering Committee can provide further information on costs and fund-raising associated with recent conferences, or a sample proposal, to sites that have a potential interest in hosting the conference. Proposal Guidelines Organisations interested in proposing to organize a future OR conference should follow the steps listed below: 1. The target dates for initial enquiries and proposals specified above should be observed. Please direct enquiries and proposals to OR Steering Committee Chair Carol Minton Morris <[email protected]>. Preliminary enquiries to review requirements of proposals are welcomed. Decisions on proposals can be expected within approximately 6-8 weeks of the submission deadline. 2. Proposals should include: identification of venue and facilities; proposed management framework (local arrangements committee), a preliminary budget and discussion of financial arrangements; a brief summary of the proposed conference structure. It will be useful to identify the host institution's engagement with the technologies and substantive themes relevant to open repositories. Suggestions for potential conference themes, presentation formats, and so forth are welcomed. However, please note that the conference program will ultimately be determined by a Program Committee (which will include representation from the local host), therefore the focus of proposals should be on the suitability of the site and ability of the host institution to manage a conference that typically includes diverse presentation formats, workshops and collaborative activities. Proposals should include proposed specific dates for the event, and note the scheduling of any other potentially conflicting meetings within several months before or after the proposed meeting date. Further, written commitments of financial support from sponsoring institutions, if any, should be submitted in the proposal. 3. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from additional reviewers. If the evaluation is positive, the Steering Committee will tentatively accept the proposal and the proposer will be asked to prepare and submit a detailed budget to the Steering Committee. About Open Repositories Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please visit the OR web site: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/. You may also visit the recently concluded OR2013 conference web site (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 8-12): http://or2013.net. Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the OR Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories. Please feel free to reflect the OR call for proposals from host organizations out through your communities. Thank you! [Less]

Winchester, MA  It's not just data anymore, it's research data because advancing knowledge in all fields of research now requires curation, collection, management, access and long-term preservation of digital data sets. Research libraries are ... [More] planning and experimenting with repository research data policies, workflows and economic models to ensure that data will persist to serve researchers and institutions far into the future. Institutional repositories are facing issues of how to handle, store, and make available larger and larger research datasets. Plan on attending "Research Data in Repositories" at Open Repositories 2013 to explore this emerging strategic issue. Join panelists Mark Leggott, Sarah Shreeves, Andrew Bell, Dean Krafft, Jill Sexton and moderator Carol Minton Morris who will discuss how the three major open source repository platforms are helping address current challenges, uncover opportunities, and develop potential solutions for the preservation and use of digital research data in repositories at their institutions. "Research Data in Repositories" will take place at OR2013 from 9:00-10:30am on Wednesday July 10 in MacDonald. There will be ample time for questions and conversation with the audience.  [Less]

From Bram Luyten, @mire Heverlee, Belgium  Participants from 9 countries convened on June 18 in Geneva, Switzerland for an intensive one-day DSpace User Group Meeting. The group was a mix of developers, repository managers and service providers. ... [More] This mix generated many ideas and discussions in an atmosphere of mutual respect and enthusiasm for the DSpace platform. Read on for some of the interesting bits that came up during the course of the day.  ORCID - Linking researchers and their work The first speaker of the day was Laure Haak, the Executive Director of ORCID, an international, interdisciplinary, open, not-for-profit, community-driven organization. ORCID collaborates with researchers and organizations across the research community. ORCID's mission is to provide an open registry of persistent unique identifiers for researchers and scholars. On top of this infrastructure, ORCID wants to automate linkages to research works by embedding identifiers in research workflows. The holy grail for a repository manager in this story is the vision of fully automated deposit. If you can rely on an external source of metadata to provide you with an unambiguous link between a specific researcher and his work, you may not need to include the researcher in the submission process at all. ORCID is not there yet today, but is making steady progress every single month. Haak talked about cases of national adoption in Sweden and the UK. She also showed examples of publishers who already integrated ORCID author lookup in their submission process. One stakeholder in the DSpace community who is following ORCID very closely is Dryad. Dryad's Todd Vision, who also serves on the board of ORCID, emphasized that the ORCID infrastructure will eventually allow repositories to transcend not only manual metadata entry, but also institution specific identities, name strings for search and browse and isolated data silos. Vision shared Dryad's concrete plans for ORCID IDs. ORCID IDs will not only be used internally but also exposed to make benefits tangible to submitters and to promote uptake. IDs will be associated both with submitters and contributors who don't necessarily have their own Dryad account. ORCID IDs will be captured when received from publishers, either directly or through CrossRef, authors and coauthors. Haak and Vision both recommended that the DSpace community evaluate support for OAuth, an open authentication system that would allow login and DSpace EPerson creation through ORCIDs. This would mean that researchers who already have an account on ORCID don't need to get a separate new password for DSpace. Every time a researcher is being asked to enter information into a system already entered elsewhere, a puppy dies (Todd Vision). Repository Interoperability: ResourceSync and SWORD2 DSpace committer and cottagelabs co-founder Richard Jones talked about the process of implementing and improving SWORD2 and ResourceSync support in DSpace. Similar to OAI-PMH, SWORD2 and ResourceSync are both protocols that allow external systems to interact with metadata and files in DSpace. While OAI-PMH was initially developed as a protocol very specific to repositories, ResourceSync really embraces the fundamental concepts of the web and could work on any web system displaying resources online. During this journey of implementing new standards, Richard discovered several areas of DSpace with room for improvement. These areas included provenance, identifiers for unarchived workspace items, user friendly packager plugin support and delegated authorizations. Hidden Gems: New and improved DSpace functionality @mire's Bram Luyten showcased a number of recent DSpace improvements. He illustrated how the use of JIRA and Github made the community more open and transparent over the last years. The audience was particularly interested in the REST-API developments where Australian service provider Wijiti already made an implementation available with over 60 endpoints. European Repository Managers The three repository managers who presented their local uses of DSpace were a nice testament to the diversity of the DSpace community. Marina Muilwijk from the University of Utrecht talked about Igitur, a custom repository front end for DSpace. In January 2013 they were the second DSpace instance in the webometrics ranking after MIT's DSpace. The institution is currently going through a DSpace upgrade with support from @mire in which the custom front end functionality will be implemented in XML User Interface. They also intend to become early adopters of the DSpace REST API. Vlastimil Krejčíř, Masaryk University, presented an entertaining comparison between mathematicians and philosophers from his experience as a developer, working on separate DSpace projects with each of these communities. The Czech Digital Mathematics Library now contains many mathematics specific customizations to DSpace and is a partner of EUDML, the European Digital Mathematics Library. Their Digital Library of the Faculty of Arts is currently in beta.   Back in 2004 we decided to adopt DSpace and we have not regretted this decision ever since. The Java codebase and in particular the XML User Interface allows us to implement the customizations we need. (Vlastimil Krejčíř) Stefania Arabito and Jordan Piščanc shared how they were able to implement an identifier service for NBN-IT, a national identifier scheme in Italy. NBN stands for National Bibliography Number. Through this functionality they are now able to offer their patrons compliance with Italian requirements for Legal Deposit through their DSpace service, OpenstarTs. In Italy, the association of the NBN to a resource certifies that the resource has been submitted for legal deposit. Italy is not the only European country using NBN, it is also used in countries including Norway, Sweden and Germany. DuraSpace Outlook on DSpace Future Michele Kimpton, CEO, and Tim Donohue, technical lead for the DSpace project, gave remote presentations about DuraSpace, its goals, responsibilities in response to DSpace and new initiatives for this year. Michele Kimpton's slides are available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUXEgUfQ120. Tim Donohue's presentation provided an update focused on the DSpace RoadMap, as well as on the recent DSpace Vision discussions and meetings. He also presented an early draft of the DSpace Vision statement. Tim Donohue's slides are available here: http://www.slideshare.net/tdonohue/d-space-roadmapvisionoai8. Donohue reported that over the last few months, stakeholders in the DSpace community have been gathering ideas about the 3-5 year development roadmap for the platform. While the final strategy still needs to emerge, it is already clear that institutions really depend on some of the solid, core, features of DSpace. The user group participants were enthusiastic about the ideas to improve the usability and management of DSpace by offering more of the configuration and customization through the user interface instead of the system back-end. In this context, Donohue compared his vision of the DSpace future to Wordpress: simple at the core but versatile enough to cover a wide range of usecases and needs around the globe. Download the Slides @mire will make the presented content available in a DSpace repository. In the meanwhile, all of the materials are already available in a bulk zipfile. This event was organized by @mire and DuraSpace with logistical support from the OAI8 Conference organizers. We jointly thank all the attendees and speakers for their participation and hope to meet you again prior to OAI8 in June 2015.   [Less]

From Imma Subirats, Senior Knowledge and Information Management Specialist at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, Italy  The FAO of the United Nations, the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) Community [1] ... [More] and Hasselt University Library [2] are pleased to announce a new webinar entitled "Integrating controlled vocabularies in information management systems: the new ontology plug-in" [3]. The session will take place on 4th July 2013 – 16:00 Rome Time [4] and will be presented by Marc Goovaerts and Dirk Leinders, Hasselt University Library (Belgium). ABOUT THE WEBINAR The Webinar will introduce the new ontology plug-in, how it works and the usage possibilities. Created as part of the AgriOcean DSpace [5], it is an independent plug-in that can be used in any other applications and information management systems. The ontology plug-in searches multiple thesauri and ontologies simultaneously by using a web service broker (e.g. AGROVOC, ASFA, Plant Ontology, NERC-C19 ontology, and OceanExpert). It delivers as output a list of selected concepts, where each concept has a URI (or unique ID), a preferred label with optional language definition and the ontology from which the concepts has been selected. The application uses JAVA, Javascript and JQuery. As it is open software, developers are invited to reuse, enrich and enhance the existing source code. We invite the participants of the webinar to give their view howmthesauri and ontologies can be used in repositories and other types of information management systems and how the ontology plug-in can be further developed. REGISTRATION The session is open to anyone but places are limited. If you are interested in attending the webinar, send an e-mail to [email protected], containing the following information: your name, affiliation, role and country.   [1] http://aims.fao.org [2] http://www.uhasselt.be/en [3] http://aims.fao.org/ontology-plug-in-webinars-at-aims [4] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20130617T16&p1=215&p2=263 [5] http://aims.fao.org/agriocean-dspace [Less]

Andrea Bollini, Project Manager, IT Architect and Systems Integrator, CINECA Rome, Italy  CINECA[1] and the University of Hong Kong (HKU)[2] are pleased to announce the immediate availability for download of a new release of the DSpace CRIS module: ... [More] https://github.com/CILEA/dspace-cris Publications are an important output of the research cycle. They allow communication between scholars, and measurement and decision support of research amongst research administrators. However there are many other equally important entities in research that need description and tracking, such as projects, grants, patents, organization units, researcher profiles (people), etc. Integrating and contextualizing all of these entities along with publications, adds greater value to each individual piece, in terms of visibility, discovery, and understanding of the total research picture. One name used for such integrations is Current Research Information System (CRIS). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Research_Information_System This DSpace addon enables the ingestion, storage, display and management of metadata and fulltext on these other research entities. This module produces a smooth integration between native DSpace items (publications) and other CRIS entities. All entities (native DSpace items or new CRIS Entities) can be linked with each other using autocomplete/lookup functions in the submission edit phase and/or the inter-navigation in visualizations. This new release is a step forward to CERIF compliance http://www.eurocris.org/Index.php?page=CERIFintroduction&t=1 that is scheduled for the next release. The updated DSpace CRIS Roadmap can be found here: https://github.com/CILEA/dspace-cris/wiki/Roadmap This is the version upon which the HKU Scholar Hub http://hub.hku.hk is built. It is tagged as a beta mainly due to poor documentation and the presence of areas of code and database that are still under development. In this new release some exciting features of the HKU Hub are included, such as: - PubMed integration - statistics visualization and alert (via email & RSS) - network graph visualization & analysis - management of researcher's preference to make a selected list (or hide) publications, projects, etc, self-made by researcher, or by staff  - SOAP webservices to access data (read-only) At the technical level we worked hard to make the installation procedure easier, all the required steps are automatically performed during the standard DSpace installation (mvn package). The database settings are now automatically derived from the dspace.cfg file without need for editing extra hibernate configuration files. The code has been updated to work with SOLR 4.1, this allows the use of SOLR join to make interesting statistics analysis grouping by authors, content types, etc. We plan to work with the DSpace community to contribute the upgrade to SOLR 4.1 to the next main release of DSpace, expected to be 4.0. Some of this code base will make its way into general DSpace releases, such as “Solr Discovery for JSPUI” in DSpace 3. However we envision that most of this work will be an optional addon, which DSpace developers can choose to implement, or not. In the spirit of open source, we hope that this DSpace CRIS module will receive wide adoption in the DSpace community. We hope that many will find it useful and then build further upon this start. To enable this desired multilateral collaboration, we ask that you send any inquires directly to the dspace mailing lists (mainly dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net). We invite all the interested parties to get in touch with us. The next Open Repository meeting will be a nice opportunity to talk face-to-face about DSpace-CRIS. There are no scheduled presentations about DSpace-CRIS, so just look around to find me and talk directly with me. Up to now, this has been a collaboration between CINECA and HKU. The HKU side is supported by funding from the HKU Office of Knowledge Exchange and the University Libraries. A note on mailing list etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette [1] http://www.cineca.it/. Please note that starting from September 2012 CINECA, CILEA and CASPUR, the three Italian Interuniversity Consortia, are now merged into a single Consortium which retains the name of CINECA. Before this, CILEA was a long-term member and contributor to the DSpace platform since 2003. [2] http://www.hku.hk/ [Less]

Winchester, MA  We are looking forward to seeing you if you are traveling to "Repository Island" next week for the Eighth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2013). Come visit us at the DuraSpace table to learn more about exciting new ... [More] initiatives for both the DSpace project and Fedora project (called Fedora Futures).  Meet members of the DuraSpace team, and find out how you can get involved in the future direction and work for both DSpace and Fedora. DuraSpace can also answer any questions you have about its two services, DuraCloud, an archiving and preservation service managed in the cloud, and DSpaceDirect, a hosted DSpace repository solution. DuraSpace staff members will be on hand to answer your questions and talk about what you are working on. Please stop by! Don't forget to join us at the DuraSpace Reception which will be held at the St. James' Gate Pub and Restaurant onThursday, July 11, 2013 from 6:30 - 8:30pm (address: St. James' Gate 129 Kent Street, Charlottetown, PEI). We look forward to sharing an evening of relaxation and networking with members of our community in celebration of another successful year. Light appetizers and cocktails will be served. [Less]

From the DSpace Committers Group Winchester, MA  The DSpace committers team is delighted to announce a new member to the group: Keiji Suzuki from Ebetsu, Japan. Please join us in welcoming him!  Keiji is a freelance consultant on library-related ... [More] systems. Before beginning the current job, he worked as a librarian in two university libraries and the NACSIS (currently NII [1]) for 20 years.  Keiji got to know DSpace for the first time through translation of the DSpace manual requested by NII-IRP, a Japanese project to promote open access, in 2004. His first contribution to DSpace was a patch to fix a minor bug in version 1.2.1. Since then, he has been providing the Japanese translation, reporting and fixing bugs and submitting new features like authority control in the Batch Metadata Editor, document type-based submission and advanced embargo for JSPUI. In addition, he has been hosting a website and a blog for the Japanese community since 2005, which provide instructions on how to localize DSpace and several functions to fulfill the domestic needs in Japan.  Keiji supports the idea of open access and is interested in refining DSpace, especially its JSPUI, as a tool to promote the green road to open access.  We are always on the lookout for new developers, contributors, and committers within the DSpace community. Anyone who would like to get more involved is encouraged to do so. You are also welcome to contact us at any time if you'd like some ideas of how to start contributing: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpaceContributors Contributions can take many forms, from writing code to editing documentation, or testing new releases to designing new themes for our user interfaces.  If you or someone you know has been an active DSpace contributor for some time, you can also nominate that person to become our next committer! Nomination details are available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Committer+Nominations   [1] http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/ [Less]

Winchester, MA  If you are traveling to Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island in Canada for the Eight International Conference on Open Repositories next month (July 8-12) you may be interested in these DuraSpace-related workshops, presentations and ... [More] meetings. For a detailed schedule and descriptions of sessions please visit: http://or2013.net/program/session-schedule. There's still time to sign-up for workshops: http://or2013.net/content/workshop-signup and submit your idea for the Developer's Challenge: http://or2013.net/content/or-2013-dev-challenge-event MONDAY JULY 8 • Fedora Futures Workshop, 10:00am - 12:00pm • DSpace Developer's Meeting, 1:00 - 5:00pm TUESDAY JULY 9, "24/7" talks 2:00 - 3:30pm •Amazon Glacier: Why to use it, When to use it, and What it will cost you • DuraCloud for Dummies: Should I Stay or Should I Go [to the cloud]? • Heavenly Collaboration: Chronopolis and DuraCloud WEDNESDAY JULY 10 • Hosting your services in the cloud - Lessons DuraSpace has learned, 10:00 - 10:30am THURSDAY JULY 11 • Repository Redux: The Future of Fedora, 9:30 - 10:00am • DuraSpace Plenary, Jonathan Markow & Michele Kimpton, 2:00 - 2:30pm • DSpace User Group Sessions -DSpace RoadMap and 3-to-5 Year Vision, 3:00 - 4:15pm -Introducing DSpace 3.1, 4:15 - 4:45pm -Implementing ResourceSync for DSpace, 5:00 - 5:30pm -The Heterogenous Zone: Five use cases for five research data collections in Edinburgh DataShare, 5:00 - 5:30 -DSpace REST API Panel, 5:30 - 6:30pm -Re-using DSpace to build a repository for freshwater quality data, 5:30 - 6:00pm -Moving BIG DATA into DSpace, 6:00 - 6:30pm • Fedora User Group Sessions -Fedora Roadmap/Building Fedora Futures, 2:30 - 3:00pm -Update on the Islandora Project and Community, 3:45 - 4:15pm -Hydra: State of the Project, Thursday, July 11, 4:15 - 4:45pm -Of Hats and Islandora (the Tuque story), 5:00 - 5:30pm -The Challenge of Archival Film: An Islandora Solution for Big Video, 5:00 - 5:30pm -A Light-Weight DevOps Approach to Islandora, 5:30 - 6:00pm -A Digital Preservation Repository for Duke University Libraries, 5:30 - 6:00pm -Developing a Metrics Dashboard for Islandora, 6:00 - 6:30pm -Meeting Unique Media Repository needs through Shared Code, 6:00 - 6:30pm   • OR13 DuraSpace Reception, 6:30 - 8:30pm   [Less]

Winchester, MA  Columbia University, Rice University, and the State of North Carolina will take part in the newly launched DuraCloud Archive-It (AI) pilot program designed to provide Archive-It partner organizations with additional options to ... [More] back-up their collections of archived content. Archive-It (archive-it.org), a web archiving service from Internet Archive, and DuraCloud (duracloud.org), a managed service for archiving content in the cloud from DuraSpace, have teamed up to test this new DuraCloud service that will allow Archive-It users to take advantage of DuraCloud's key features for storing digital collections: the ability to add any number of content copies to the cloud and store them with several different providers; automatic content health checks that easily detect bit integrity issues, and; Amazon Glacier access as a secondary, low-cost cloud store. The program goal is to test the new DuraCloud service for seamless Archive-It back-ups in DuraCloud this summer. Plans are to launch the DuraCloud-Archive-It utility to their library and archive community later this year. For more information please contact Carissa Smith <[email protected]>. [Less]

From Mark Leggott, OR2013 Conference Chair, Sarah Shreeves, OR2013 Program Co-Chair and Jon Dunn, OR2013 Program Co-Chair Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CA  Open Repositories 2013 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada is less than ... [More] a month away (July 8-12) and is shaping up to provide a packed week of workshops, presentations, panels, posters, demos, and user group sessions that will interest anyone working with repositories and the digital information lifecycle. OR Workshops The first day of the Open Repositories Conference, Monday, July 8, is dedicated to the Hackfest and workshops aimed at a wide variety of audiences. The available workshops include tutorials on repository platforms, updates on technologies of interest to repository managers and developers, and discussions of current topics in repositories and digital content management. For a full list of workshops, see the conference schedule at: http://or2013.net/program/session-schedule Participation in OR2013 workshops is free with conference registration, but you'll need to sign up in advance to ensure a seat in the workshops you want. Once you've registered for the conference, be sure to visit http://or2013.net/content/workshop-signup to sign up for the workshops you're interested in. And if you haven't already registered or booked your accommodation, be sure to visit http://or2013.net/ to do so. OR Hackfest and Developer's Challenge We are pleased to announce that the Hackfest and Developer Challenge planning for OR 2013 is in full swing. We have already received 3 great challenge ideas that will stimulate your repository spirit and generate a creative sprint that you and your Challenge colleagues will not soon forget. If that isn't enough to get you to sign-up, then the over $8,000 in prizes to be awarded by our panel of judges may provide some extra sauce. Prizes for this year's Challenge has been generously provided by the Digital Library Federation [1], JISC [2], the SPRUCE Project [3] and the Fedora Futures Project [4] - and we are expecting some extra surprises on top of that. How do I participate in the great Hackfest and Developer Challenge? We're glad you asked, just follow these simple steps: 1. Register for the OR Conference [5], or if you've already done that get your friends to do the same. 2. Sign-up for the Hackfest (taking place on Monday, July 8) and Dev Challenge [6] so we can make sure we have enough beer and pizza to help get you started. 3. Read the Dev Challenge description and manifesto [7] and get ready to participate. 4. Practice eating oysters [8] while you wax poetic [9] on your laptop to get your repository elbow ready for the big event [10]. 5. Watch for the release of the OR 2013 Hackfest and Dev Challenge Ideas [11]. 6. Do your best to attend the all-day Hackfest on Monday, which will kick off the Challenge and help build a creative team that will stay with you for the rest of your career. 7. Take lots of pictures at the Challenge with you and your buds so you can send them to you mom and dad. This is the most important part, but must be preceded by steps 1-6 above to be the most effective. [1] http://www.diglib.org/ [2] http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ [3] http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/spruce [4] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF [5] http://or2013.net/registration [6] http://or2013.net/content/workshop-signup [7] http://or2013.net/content/or-2013-dev-challenge-event [8] http://www.tourismpei.com/pei-oysters [9] http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/wax-poetic. html [10] http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/developer-challenges/ [11] Coming soon... We look forward to seeing you in Charlottetown!   [Less]