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This is the final week to register for the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute!  There are just a few openings available for the fall 2012 offering, which runs from September 6 through December 13. To register ... [More] , visit http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute.  The E-Science Institute is designed to help academic and research libraries develop a strategic agenda for e-research support, with a particular focus on the sciences. The Institute consists of a series of interactive modules that take small teams of individuals from your institution through a dynamic learning process to strengthen and advance their strategy for supporting computational scientific research. The coursework begins with a series of exercises for teams to complete at their institutions, and culminates with an in-person workshop. Local institution assignments help staff establish a high level understanding of research support background needs and issues.   Originally funded and developed by the sponsors and supporting institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) / Digital Library Federation (DLF) and it was previously only available to their members. Going forward the E-Science Institute will be managed by the DuraSpace organization in partnership with ARL and CLIR/DLF, and will be open to all institutions. The current offering of the Institute includes improvements based on participant and faculty feedback as well as content updates as e-research services continue to mature individually and collectively.  The registration deadline is September 1 and the launch webinar will be held next Thursday, September 6 at 1pm Eastern.  For more information, please visit http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute. [Less]

Honolulu, HI  The Winter 2013 APAN/ESnet/Internet2 technical meeting, known as "Techs in Paradise" or "TIP," hosted by the University of Hawaii Mānoa, from Saturday, January 12 through Friday, January 18 has issued a call for proposals. Abstracts are ... [More] due on Sept. 14, 2012. The meeting will be held at the East-West Center (located at 1601 East-West Road on the University's Mānoa campus). The following topics have been identified as being of particular interest, although proposals in other areas relating to research and education networking are also invited: Network Research and Emerging Technologies (including Software Defined Networking / OpenFlow; Security in R&E Networking; Network Performance and Measurement; and "Future Internet") Network Architecture and Operations (including 100G implementation experiences; IPv6; Network performance and utilization; R&E network infrastructure and connectivity updates; and Pacific Islands connectivity) R&E Network Applications (including Astronomy; Ocean observatories; Climate and environment; Disaster management; e-Medicine and e-Health; e-Culture and performance; Global collaboration; and e-Learning) Call for proposals: http://events.internet2.edu/2013/tip/call.html About TIP http://events.internet2.edu/2013/tip/ [Less]

DuraSpace was represented by staff and community members at the Seventh International Open Repositories Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland July 9-13, 2012. The following strategic overviews and links to slides and videos are provided for those ... [More] who were unable to attend the conference.   From high level policy-related presentations to open access solutions for large or small institutions, to innovative, bundled repository platforms and novel approaches to preservation and archiving, widely-deployed DuraSpace open source technologies are seen as key components in global efforts to collect, manage, preserve and create access to our shared digital scholarly, scientific and cultural heritage.   Research Data Management As expected, research data management was a popular topic at Open Repositories 2012. The following three presentations, including Cameron Neylon's keynote address, cover a range of issues of interest. Please note that the Smithsonian Institution's repository-based solution for managing research data is being adopted by DuraSpace as a front-end for the DuraCloud for Research project.   • Network Enabled Research, Opening Keynote Presenter: Cameron Neylon Video: http://bit.ly/Ti2LIG • Big Data Challenges in Repository Development Presenter: Leslie Johnson Slides: http://bit.ly/PFV0aM   • A Repository-based Architecture for Capturing Research Projects at the Smithsonian Presenter: Thornton Staples Video: http://bit.ly/MyhAlt Identifiers Two approaches were presented at Open Repositories towards establishing persistent and authoritative digital object identifiers.   • ORCID Update and why you should use ORCIDs in your repository Presenter: Simeon Warner Video: http://bit.ly/Nk7p6m • Creating Citable Data Identifiers Presenters: Ryan Scherle, Mark Diggory Video: http://bit.ly/QNix0x   DSpace Highlights and Tutorials The DSpace user community continues to address the challenges of data management, discovery, search, navigation and workflow with new innovations for the DSpace software as well as through add-ons and integrations. Presentations at Open Repositories highlighted advances in functionality/features and integrations in addition to a number of useful tutorials on both technical and administrative topics. • The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository: Open Access with Global Development Impact Presenters: Lieven Droogmans, Tom Breineder, Matthew Howells, Carlos Rossel Video: http://bit.ly/MjZQyO • Contributions for DSpace 3.0 (VH) Presenters: Lieven Droogmans, Ben Bosman, Mark Diggory Slides: http://bit.ly/RreO6y • An Invitation Toward Development: Demystifying Customization of the XMLUI Through Best Practices Presenter: Patrick Etienne Slides: http://bit.ly/Myk9DW   • How to Make Your DSpace Repository Open AIRE Compliant Presenters: Eloy Rodrigues, Jose Carvalho, Pedro Principe Slides: http://bit.ly/OU2MQi • Curation Tasks for Repository Managers: Staying in the Light and have a Dark Side Presenters: S. Leonie Hayes, Elin Stangeland, Sean Thomason on behalf of Yanan Zhao, Kim Shepherd, Yin Yin Latt Slides: http://bit.ly/Mk009k   Fedora Highlights Fedora repositories for big data, complex commercial integrations, and as support infrastructure for specialized audio and video workflows were highlighted during the Open Repositories Conference. The Fedora platform provides the foundation for many types of solutions that presenters described including Hydra and Islandora institutional repositories for media, research and data management.   • Built to Scale? Presenter: Edwin Shin Video: http://bit.ly/OU3CfK   • Variations on Video Presenters: Claire Stewart, Jon Dunn Video: http://bit.ly/MzI0sX • A Fedora Akubra Storage Plug-in for the Dell DX Object Storage Platform Presenters: Thomas Habing, Howard Ding, William Ingram, RobertFerrer Abstract: http://bit.ly/Mym4IK • WGBH Open Source Digital Asset Management System for Media Preservation Presenter: Karen Cariani Slides: http://bit.ly/P6kBPC   DuraCloud Highlights This panel presentation provided three institutional use cases for the DuraCloud open source software and service and three different approaches to combining cloud preservation capabilities to customized software stacks. • Preservation in the Cloud Three Ways Presenters: Richard Rodgers, Mark Leggot, Simon Waddington Video: http://bit.ly/NoK3ef [Less]

Stellenbosch, South Africa Registration is now open for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference, to be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa November 7-8, 2012. Registration ... [More] is also open for Pre-conference Workshops to be presented on November 6, 2012.  The theme of the Conference is Networked scholarship in a networked world: participation in Open Access. The programme will be made available on the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference web at www.berlin10.orgin due course.    To register for the Conference and Pre-conference Workshops, please visit: http://www.lib.sun.ac.za/b10/register.html    Please note that space is limited. Early Bird registration closes on September 15, 2012, and General Registration on October 24, 2012.   About the conference The Berlin 10 Open Access Conference is being organised by Stellenbosch University, in collaboration with the Max Planck Society. Other partners include the Association of African Universities (AAU), the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and UNESCO.   The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, issued in 2003 by international research, scientific, and cultural institutions, promotes the Internet as a medium for disseminating global knowledge. It has been signed by the leaders of over 300 research institutions, libraries, archives, museums, funding agencies, and governments from around the world. Signatories include the Max Planck Society (co-initiator and custodian of the declaration), CERN, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academia Europea, Harvard University, and the International Federation of Library Associations. The Berlin Open Access Conference Series supports the continued adoption and realisation of the principles of the declaration and has been hosted in Germany, Switzerland, England, Italy, France, China, and more recently in the USA (North America). Berlin 10 will mark the first such meeting to take place on the African continent. The program will feature concrete steps taken by a variety of stakeholders to support Open Access and invite participants to consider added actions that might be taken – including encouraging signatures to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. Please visit http://www.berlin10.org/call-to-action.html for more information.   For registration enquiries, please contact: Ellen Claasen [email protected]   All other enquiries can be directed to: Ina Smith [email protected]   More information on the registration process: http://www.berlin10.org/reg.html [Less]

From Andrea Higginbotham, Communications Mangager, SPARC Washington, DC This year's Open Access Week theme is "Set the Default to Open Access" for Open Access Week (October 22 – 28, 2012). Our first online event to launch this year’s events will ... [More] be a webcast with three speakers who will showcase the state of open access in each of their countries. Please join us Tuesday June 19th at 10am Eastern US Time! RSVP at http://sparc.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=108. (Please use this helpful converter to make sure you log in at the right time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html). We'll have a brief introduction to Open Access Week and then hear from three amazing speakers. Our speakers are: 1. Dr Reggie Raju, Director of IT Services & Communication, US Library & Information Service Stellenbosch University, South Africa  2. Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC in the United States  3. Iryna Kuchma, is program manager at EIFL Open Access in Ukraine We will take questions through the online portal.   To accommodate interest in every time zone, this 1-hour event will be recorded and available on our website shortly afterwards.   With 1432 participants in 92 countries, the 2011 Open Access Week (OAW) participation grew leaps and bounds from the previous year. We are excited that so many positive developments are happening across the globe. Let us know what you are planning for this year's events. Become a member, create a group, and start planning. Make sure to say you are participating in this year's events. And please ask questions and let us know if there are resources that we can provide to help you create a more well rounded OA Week event! [Less]

Ithaca, NY  Last month the DuraSpace organization launched its third annual Sponsorship Program, encouraging all institutions using the DSpace and Fedora open source technologies to contribute financially to the not for profit entity which provides ... [More] leadership and support for these platforms.  Our goal for 2012 is to raise $450,000. This funding will pay for DuraSpace staff working directly on DSpace and Fedora, our community programs, our webinar series and the infrastructure to support the technologies.  Please help us reach our goal and contribute what you can so we do not have to cut any of our vital programs.   Why should your institution become a DuraSpace Sponsor? While the DSpace and Fedora software is available free of charge, DuraSpace does not receive significant funding from government agencies or private foundations. Instead DuraSpace relies on the financial support from those organizations that directly benefit by using its open source software. While there are over 1500 DSpace and Fedora repositories around the world, last year only 63 institutions provided DuraSpace with financial support. This year we must increase the number of organizations participating. While the sponsor program officially has 3 sponsor levels (Gold-$10,000, Silver-$5,000 and Bronze-$2,500) we would welcome new 2012 sponsors joining with any contribution at our “Friends of DuraSpace” level. To find out more about the program or use the Paypal credit card feature to become a sponsor today: http://duraspace.org/sponsors. If you have any questions, please contact Valorie Hollister at [email protected].   DuraSpace 2012 Sponsors to Date DuraSpace would like to thank all the institutions that have already renewed their sponsorship as well as those organizations that have joined us for the first time in 2012 (new 2012 sponsors are noted in italics below).   Gold Arizona State University Columbia University Cornell University Emory University ICPSR MIT North Carolina State University Texas Digital Library University of Illinois University of Michigan University of Pittsburgh University of Virginia Virginia Tech   Silver Monash University Rice University Smithsonian Institution University of Calgary University of Cambridge University of Guelph University of Maryland University of Miami University of New South Wales University of Ottawa University of Prince Edward Island York University Libraries   Bronze Brown University Case Western Reserve University Imperial College London New York University State and University Library-Aarhus University Adelaide University of Auckland University of California San Diego University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Technology Sydney University of Tennessee Utrecht University Vrije University Amsterdam   Friends of DuraSpace: Kansas State University Massey University University of Delaware   [Less]

From Tim Donohue on behalf of the DSpace Committers Team Ithaca, NY The DSpace Committers Team is delighted to announce a new member to the group: Ivan Masár, also known as "helix84". Please join us in welcoming him! Many of you will immediately ... [More] recognize Ivan's pseudonym "helix84". As helix84, Ivan has been a very active participant on our mailing lists, frequently answering questions and offering his expertise and advice to all community members. In recent months, Ivan has also been active in helping to resolve outstanding bugs and sharing his brainstorms/opinions in our weekly DSpace developer meetings. Ivan has been working on DSpace since version 1.5, mainly interested in the XMLUI interface. His first contribution to DSpace was a translation. He's been maintaining two production repositories and over time gained practical experience which he gladly shares by improving documentation and answering questions of other users on the mailing lists. He has also submitted several patches back to DSpace based on his local repository customizations and improvements. Ivan comments on his contributions: "I don't consider myself a Java programmer by any means, but there are still many other areas where I can help out. I'm quite fond of XMLUI, because it allows users trying to customize DSpace great flexibility, so if someone asks this kind of question, I'm usually able to help. I'm also trying to help out by testing patches in Jira and giving feedback - all users who care about features in the next version should really get more involved in this." Ivan comments on his invitation to become a Committer: "I was quite surprised at first, because I didn't know I was nominated. I appreciate the trust of other committers. I don't think this will change what areas I'm involved in, for example it won't improve my Java-fu overnight, but it might speed up getting my patches in and I'll review other patches from Jira. I already have some ideas for minor XMLUI improvements in mind." 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 Welcome Ivan (aka helix84)! [Less]

From William Nixon and Stuart Macdonald, On behalf of OR2012 Programme Committee Edinburgh, Scotland We are counting down to the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) on 9-13 July, 2012 and are delighted to announce that we ... [More] are able to extend the Early Booking rate until Monday 18 June. The Early Booking rate is £295 with a full-price rate of £350 thereafter. There is also a day rate of £115. As a reminder delegates can register for OR2012 via the conference electronic payment system (http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/registration/). The draft programme is available at: https://www.conftool.net/or2012/sessions.php This is provisional and, as such, timings may change. Further details including Pecha Kucha and Repository Fringe sessions, closing keynote, session chairs etc will also be incorporated in the coming days. Please check the website for updates. Delegates can also register for the workshops on Monday and Tuesday at www.or2012.eventbrite.com. Please note that the workshops are free but you will need the EDN number from your receipt from the conference electronic payment system to register for the workshops. Accommodation is booked separately -  http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/delegates/accommodation/ Additional information about the conference is provided on the OR2012 website: http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/ [Less]

Ithaca, NY The University of Maryland Health and Human Services Library celebrated the one year anniversary of establishing the UM Digital Archive on May 4, 2012. In an article in the Connective Issues newsletter M. J. Tooey, Associate Vice ... [More] President, Academic Affairs and Executive Director, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, reflected on the value of staff skill and resourcefulness in establishing an institutional repository using the DSpace open source software application: "We did it with no money (by using open-source software) and with no new staff (by retraining existing staff and dispersing bits and pieces of the work). Our cataloging team re-invented themselves as metadata analysts. Our systems staff discovered the open source community is incredibly – well, open and helpful." Read "The New Digital Old" article here: [link: http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/general/news/newsletter/index.php/2012/04/] [Less]

New partners, expanded communities mean more learning opportunities for librarians, repository managers, researchers, and technologists Ithaca, NY DuraSpace is pleased to announce the 2012 Association of Research Libraries/Digital Library Federation ... [More] (ARL/DLF)/DuraSpace E-Science Institute (ESI) scheduled for the 2012-2013 academic year. This Institute will be offered to academic and research library audiences seeking opportunities to boost institutional support of e-research and the management and preservation of our scientific and scholarly record. The new Institute will include ongoing communication with the ARL/CLIR Connect E-Science/E-Research Community–an interactive website for ESI participants to maintain contact with one another, the ESI faculty, and experts and professionals in the fields of information and library science to build a community of emerging practice. DuraSpace has an excellent track record of offering online professional webinars, and DLF provides both professional expertise and numerous ways for the community to connect and continue the conversation. "The DLF is excited to continue our involvement with this important effort and looks forward to working with Duraspace," said DLF Director Rachel Frick. The 2012 E-Science Institute will build on the strengths of the inaugural 2011 E-Science Institute developed by MacKenzie Smith, DeEtta Jones and a group of expert faculty [http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/escieninstitute/esi-facultybios.shtml] in collaboration with ARL and DLF. "The ARL/DLF E-Science Institute was a unique opportunity to help a large number of research libraries develop strategies for engaging with e-science and digital research on their campuses and collaboratively. The new Institute under development by DuraSpace will take what we learned from that experience to create a valuable learning experience and an ongoing community collaboration for this critical library program. I hope every library will avail itself of this opportunity." said MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian, University of California, Davis. More about the E-Science Institute The E-Science Institute was designed in 2011 to help research libraries develop a strategic agenda for e-research support, with a particular focus on the sciences. The Institute consists of a series of interactive modules that take small teams of individuals through a dynamic learning process to strengthen and advance their strategy for supporting computational scientific research. The Institute begins with a series of modules for teams to complete at their institutions, and culminates with an in-person workshop. Local institution assignments help staff establish a high level understanding of research support background needs and issues. Development of course materials for the 2011 Institute was funded by the sponsors and supporting institutions of ARL and CLIR/DLF and was only available to their members. Going forward, the E-Science Institute will be managed by the DuraSpace organization and will be open to all institutions. “The first E-Science Institute was a tremendous success,” said ARL Executive Director Charles B. Lowry. “ARL will work closely with DuraSpace to shape the new Institute and support ARL membership as library e-research services mature individually and collectively." ARL members and CLIR sponsors were surveyed about the anticipated 2012 Institute design. Respondents indicated a preference for a format that would include a series of online courses as well as an optional in-person capstone event. An additional focus on humanities as well as the sciences plus in-depth presentations in areas that participants indicated were of high interest will be offered this year. Look for announcements about specific dates as they become available. Sign up here if you would like to be notified when date and registration information is available: http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute. About ARL (Association of Research Libraries) ARL is a membership organization that influences the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. About DLF (Digital Library Federation) The purpose of CLIR’s Digital Library Federation program is to build and support a robust, engaged community whose members share a vested interest in advancing digital libraries. To this end, 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 the DuraSpace organization DuraSpace is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2009 when the Fedora Commons organization and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source repository software, joined to pursue a common mission to preserve our shared scholarly, scientific and cultural record. The DuraSpace community includes more than 1,500 worldwide institutions that use DSpace or Fedora open source repository software to provide durable access to documents, imagery and media. DuraSpace has established infrastructure, workflow and administrative support to ensure that long-distance presentations are conducted in a crisp and professional manner.  Effective management of online scheduling, publicity, rehearsals, marketing, distribution, registration and post-production contribute to learning satisfaction. Online sessions are hosted using the EDUCAUSE Adobe Connect platform and are recorded for asynchronous viewing. Presenters receive full survey reports conducted at the conclusion of each presentation. [Less]