From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org  Wed Jan  9 09:29:06 2013
From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:29:06 -0500
Subject: [Rdap] NEWS RELEASE: New Fedora Initiative Underway
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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

January 9, 2012
Contact: Jonathan Markow <jjmarkow at duraspace.org>
Read it online: http://bit.ly/WNtbl2

*Fedora?A Repository for the Future*
*New Fedora Initiative Underway*

A group of stakeholders from the Fedora community have come together to
begin the process of planning a three year software development project
that will direct new resources toward a major Fedora overhaul, adding
capabilities that will make Fedora the repository platform of choice for
the future.  The group anticipates that improvements will include features
such as greater scalability, data management support, storage flexibility,
and others the community has been requesting. This new initiative is being
called Fedora Futures.

The Coalition of Networked Information 2012 Fall Meeting held in Washington
D.C. Dec. 10-11 was the setting for a session that introduced the Fedora
Futures community initiative. Members of Fedora Futures announced the
project and led a discussion on the future of the Fedora Repository that
included a review of the current state of Fedora, the proponents and
objectives of the Futures initiative, and a review on the use cases,
stakeholders, high level requirements and processes which are guiding the
project.  The group is now seeking broader community input and will be
reaching out to current DuraSpace sponsors and others in the near future.
 The discussion was standing room only, with 75 interested attendees packed
into the venue. The presentation is available on the Fedora Futures wiki:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home.

The discussion at CNI revolved around one central question, posed by Mark
Leggott, University Librarian at Prince Edward Island and chair of the
Fedora Futures Steering Group: ?Given the success and value of Fedora as an
open source, digital repository over the last 12 years, how can the
community marshal an effort to enhance the platform in order to meet the
known and emerging needs and opportunities in the repository arena??

?Fedora has a worldwide community of adopters, and has proven itself as
flexible, extensible and durable architecture,? said Tom Cramer, Chief
Technology Strategist at Stanford University. He added, ?for the Futures
project, our objectives are to preserve these strengths, while increasing
its performance, scalability and modularity, and reducing its complexity at
the same time.? Another primary objective is to expand the pool of
developers actively committing to the project.

Matthias Razum, head of EScience from FIZ Karlsruhe, presented the use
cases and stakeholder profiles that are guiding the new wave of
development. These include managing research and heterogeneous data more
efficiently; improving administrability of the repository, and interacting
with the linked data and the semantic web. Per Razum, ?Our targeted actors
are not just administrators and developers, but also curators and
researchers; the repository of the future has to serve needs across the
whole information lifecycle.?

Eddie Shin of MediaShelf LLC and a longtime Fedora committer, was
introduced as the project?s interim Product Manager. Shin reviewed the
technical and development approach that the project group is undertaking.
?We plan to provide next generation repository while ensuring a smooth
upgrade path for existing institutions. We?ll do this through a lean
development methodology, with rapid development and continuous release of
functionality produced in short iterations.?

The Fedora Futures initiative is being seeded by a coalition of
institutions that are all keenly interested in seeing Fedora adapt to meet
today?s and tomorrow?s needs for a robust repository platform. Working
hand-in-glove with DuraSpace, the founding members of the initiative are
Columbia University, FIZ Karlsruhe, MediaShelf LLC, Oxford University, the
Smithsonian Institute, Stanford University, University of Prince Edward
Island, and the University of Virginia. Each of these institutions has
committed to contributing significant financial and/or personnel to the
redevelopment effort.

Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer at DuraSpace, extended an
invitation to the entire Fedora community to participate in the effort.
?The Futures group has catalyzed renewed development for Fedora, but for
the effort to achieve its full potential for all stakeholders, we need to
enlist not only Fedora?s current committers, but also all adopters,
sponsors and service providers.? *A prospectus is available to those who
would like to get involved as contributors to this effort by contacting
Jonathan Markow <jjmarkow at duraspace.org>.*  University of Virginia,
Discovery Garden and University of Prince Edward Island, Stanford
University, Columbia University, Oxford University?s Bodleian Library, FIZ
Karlsruhe, and MediaShelf have already pledged substantial resources to the
project.

Questions about the technical direction of the project or offers of
development support can be made to Edwin Shin <Edwin.Shin at yourmediashelf.com
>

MORE INFORMATION

? A Fedora Futures prospectus is available here: Fedora Futures
Prospectus<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Prospectus>
.
? The Fedora Futures wiki:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home
? Slides from the Fedora Futures session at the 2012 CNI Fall Member
Meeting:http://www.slideshare.net/Tom-Cramer/fedora-futures-cni-2012
? "Fedora Futures Kicks Off at CNI" blog post:
http://duraspace.org/fedora-futures-kicks-cni

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
Twitter at DuraCloud <http://twitter.com/duracloud>
http://DuraSpace.org
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From dm2764 at columbia.edu  Thu Jan 10 05:03:46 2013
From: dm2764 at columbia.edu (dm2764 at columbia.edu)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:03:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Rdap] Rdap Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1
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Please be advised that Danianne Mizzy's last day at Columbia Libraries 
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Chapel Hill Libraries. For assistance with Engineering Library-related 
matters, please email ref-sci at columbia.edu or call the main Monell 
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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

January 9, 2012
Contact: Jonathan Markow <jjmarkow at duraspace.org>
Read it online: http://bit.ly/WNtbl2

*Fedora?A Repository for the Future*
*New Fedora Initiative Underway*

A group of stakeholders from the Fedora community have come together to
begin the process of planning a three year software development project
that will direct new resources toward a major Fedora overhaul, adding
capabilities that will make Fedora the repository platform of choice for
the future.  The group anticipates that improvements will include features
such as greater scalability, data management support, storage flexibility,
and others the community has been requesting. This new initiative is being
called Fedora Futures.

The Coalition of Networked Information 2012 Fall Meeting held in Washington


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From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org  Mon Jan 21 09:21:25 2013
From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:21:25 -0500
Subject: [Rdap] Register for Islandora Camp Europe in Tuscany, March 20-22
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*--Forwarding from Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island--*

The Islandora team is pleased to report that plans for the upcoming
Islandora Camp Europe are coming along nicely. With the new Islandora 6 and
7 releases due in the coming weeks we are sure to have a lot to talk about
when we gather in March. The current agenda is available:

        http://europe.islandora.ca/program/session-schedule

There are still 2 "Community Member" session opening (45 minutes each), so
if you would like to present on your project (or share the slot with
someone else), please let me know as soon as possible. We have already
confirmed Daniel Stein and Daniel Jettka (Fedora, Islandora, and Language
Corpora) and Anna Perin and Giancarlo Birello (Digibess: thanks
Islandora!). We have also set aside 6 slots for the unConference sessions,
which will allow those attending to determine additional topics for
break-outs  as part of discussion on Day 1. The unConference part of the
3-day event is something we started with Islandora Camp last year and it
was a great way for the community to let us know what they wanted to hear
about. If you are planning to come to Camp and have specific session
requests please let me know, as it gives us more time to prepare. We will
also be adding an unConference session idea form next week.

Mark Leggott (UPEI and DiscoveryGarden Inc.), Donald Moses (University of
PEI), Paul Pound (University of PEI, and Thorny Staples (The Smithsonian)
will be lead facilitators and speakers for the Camp. In the next couple of
days we will be conforming additional developers from the Islandora
community who will be in Tuscany as facilitators for the event.

Register soon and join your colleagues in the historic Tuscan town of
Arcidosso, March 20-22, for what is sure to be a stimulating learning Camp!

Mark Leggott, Islandora Lead
Robertson Library
University of Prince Edward Island
550 University Ave. Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3
Office - 902-566-0460  Cell - 902-314-7507
islandora.ca   mleggott at islandora.ca  Skype: markleggott
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From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org  Wed Jan 23 08:52:44 2013
From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:52:44 -0500
Subject: [Rdap] NEWS RELEASE: DuraCloud Kicks Off 2013 With Storage Price
	Reductions!
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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

January 23, 2013
Contact: Carol Minton Morris <cmmorris at duraspace.org>
Read it online: http://bit.ly/Vjz27f

*New 2013 DuraCloud Price Cuts*

*Winchester, MA *Today the DuraSpace organization announced price cuts to
DuraCloud <http://duracloud.org> storage costs for each subscription
plan?Preservation Basic, Preservation Plus, and DuraCloud Enterprise. Each
plan offers customers affordable and managed digital preservation and
archiving services matched to customers' needs. DuraCloud subscription
plans are competitive with commercial cloud providers, do not require
additional transfer or variable costs, and reflect recent price cuts across
most major cloud storage providers including Amazon, Google, Azure, HP, and
Rackspace.

The new prices have been posted on the DuraCloud web site:
http://duracloud.org/pricing.

Key DuraCloud benefits include:

? Copies of your content stored with multiple providers

? Automated health checking of content, so files are never corrupted or lost

? Easy to use content synchronization and retrieval tools

? A full suite of reports that let you more effectively manage your content

? Online sharing and streaming to any internet-linked device

? Permissions and access controls for content stored in the cloud

A FREE 2-month DuraCloud trial run comes complete with one-on-one customer
support and a production DuraCloud instance that allows you to upload any
of your content to DuraCloud and test all of the DuraCloud services. This
is an opportunity for you to find out how cloud storage and services can
help you plan for meeting your back-up, preservation, streaming, and
collaboration needs now and for the future. DuraCloud is the only "one
click to the cloud" managed cloud service that provides you with instant
access to multiple locations and providers.

Take advantage of DuraCloud <http://duracloud.org> 2013 price cuts today!
Apply for your free DuraCloud trial account here:

http://www.duracloud.org/trial-account-request

If you have any questions please contact us at
info at duracloud.org<http://mailto:info at duracloud.org>
.

ABOUT THE DURASPACE ORGANIZATION

DuraSpace <http://duraspace.org> 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. More information at DuraSpace.org <http://duraspace.org>.

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
Twitter at DuraCloud <http://twitter.com/duracloud>
http://DuraSpace.org
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From rhmcdona at indiana.edu  Wed Jan 23 12:37:00 2013
From: rhmcdona at indiana.edu (McDonald, Robert H.)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:37:00 +0000
Subject: [Rdap] DEADLINE EXTENSION: CFP for ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on
 Digital Libraries 2013
Message-ID: <0C54A0DA8FB7EF41ACE5011BADA1FEFB1717DE59@IU-MSSG-MBX106.ads.iu.edu>

The following submission deadlines for the 2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) have been extended:

Full paper submissions are due 4 February 2013
Short paper, panel, poster, demonstration submissions are due 8 February 2013.
Workshop and tutorial demonstration submissions are due 15 February 2013.
For more information, please refer to the complete CFP athttp://jcdl2013.org/call-for-papers.

Doctoral consortium submissions will be due 15 April 2013, and details are available at http://jcdl2013.org/doctoral-consortium.

The JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. This year's conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from July 22-26.  We welcome submissions on the wide range of topics of interest in Digital Libraries worldwide.

On behalf of the JCDL 2013 Planning Committee,

Best,

Robert


**********************************
Robert H. McDonald
Associate Dean for Library Technologies
Deputy Director-Data to Insight Center, Pervasive Technology Institute
Indiana University
1320 East 10th Street
Herman B Wells Library 234
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812-856-4834
Email: rhmcdona at indiana.edu
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From rhill at asis.org  Wed Jan 30 11:04:05 2013
From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:04:05 -0500
Subject: [Rdap] FW: Digital Preservation in Theory and Practice: A
	Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG)
	Boot-Camp Webinar
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Officially there is no connection between ASIST and PASIG.  We are, however,
working closely with them on both meetings and webasts.  ASIST members can
attend this webcast at no cost.

You can sign up for their discussion list at
http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo and for their announce list at
http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/pasig-announce

Their website is at http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/

----
?
Digital Preservation in Theory and Practice: A Preservation and Archiving
Special Interest Group (PASIG) Boot-Camp Webinar
?
Join us for a Webinar on February 12
Free for ASIS&T Members, $20?for Non-members

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-2-12-2013-register.ht
ml

Over the last two decades, digital preservation has emerged as a critical
challenge for institutions looking to provide long-term access to their
information assets. This webinar will introduce some of the fundamental
needs and concepts that underpin digital preservation, and provide a
practical, hands-on survey of the best practices, tools and strategies in
preservation that have emerged only quite recently. 

The content of this webinar comes from the introduction to the "Preservation
Boot-camp" developed for and delivered at the international PASIG meetings,
a semi-annual exchange of architectures, operations and best practices of
digital preservation among practitioners, researchers and industry experts.
The PASIG Boot-camp provides an introduction to the field and needs in
digital preservation, and give attendees a foundation of concepts,
terminology, standards and tools used broadly in the field. This ?Digital
Preservation 101? event is targeted specifically for those looking to gain
exposure to the field, or current practitioners looking for a review of the
formal concepts or broad set of tools currently in use.

Title:
Digital Preservation in Theory and Practice: A Preservation and Archiving
Special Interest Group (PASIG) Boot-Camp Webinar
Date:
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Time:
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows? 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Mac?-based attendees
Required: Mac OS? X 10.5 or newer

Mobile attendees
Required: iPhone?, iPad?, Android? phone or Android tablet 
?
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