From rhill at asis.org Mon Jul 1 14:40:24 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 14:40:24 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] ] July 11 PASIG Webinar: Storage Technology Trendsfor Archiving Message-ID: <201307011840.r61IeWae016667@mail.asis.org> __________ Richard Hill ASIS&T Executive Director 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill at asis.org The next PASIG monthly webinar will be July 11 at 11:30am EST. This webinar is free to ASIS&T members, $20 for non-members. It will be archived. The registration website is: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-STTA-7-11-2013-regist er.html Abstract: Storage Technology Trends for Archiving Today's archives continue to face rapid data growth with tight budgets. How do the various storage technologies compare today, and what does the future look like? What technologies should you be considering in your archive planning? Dr. Robert Raymond will talk about tiered storage and then review technology trends and future projections for each, including flash, disk, tape, etc. Dr. Raymond will cover the technology risks and challenges for each as part of the discussion. Tom Wultich will cover the economics of tape in particular, including history and trends, as well as future projections. He will show the results of the model for future pricing, which you can use to estimate your future archive costs. Tom and Bob will also be available to answer questions about the Linear Tape File System, tiered storage, data integrity, and more. Biographies: Tom Wultich is the director of tape product and program management at Oracle, which includes StorageTek VSM, ELS and ACSLS host software, StorageTek Tape Analytics software, the SL-series of tape libraries, the StorageTek T10000 and T9840 tape drives, LTO tape drives, and tape media. Tom started at StorageTek in 1998 and has held various product management positions with the company since then. Previously Tom worked as a senior product manager for Tektronix, where he had responsibility for a portfolio of instrumentation products. Tom has also worked as a design engineer at SRI International and the US Naval Research Laboratory. Tom has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from UCLA. Bob Raymond is Sr. Engineering Manager for Oracle Tape Storage. Bob is responsible for advanced tape systems architecture and tape partner development. This includes the development of our storage archive product called SAM_QFS and development of products based on new tape file systems like LTFS. In addition, he is responsible for analyzing new and competitive storage technologies. Bob has 35 years of experience in the storage industry working at IBM, Digital, StorageTek, Sun and now Oracle. 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Name: ATT00103.txt URL: From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov Thu Jul 4 20:01:35 2013 From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 20:01:35 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Job: Marine Data Assistants at British Antarctic Survey References: <20130704202636.27405.1114@li144-162.members.linode.com> Message-ID: <2BB6636D-970D-4C81-8E4C-7A050E109C18@grace.nascom.nasa.gov> Yet another job posting that might be of interest to this community. -Joe Begin forwarded message: > From: jobs at CODE4LIB.ORG > Date: July 4, 2013 4:26:36 PM EDT > To: CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Job: Marine Data Assistants at British Antarctic Survey > Reply-To: Code for Libraries > > The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), part of the Natural Environment Research > Council, aims to undertake a world-class programme of scientific research, and > to sustain for the UK an active and influential regional presence and a > leadership role in Antarctic affairs. We are currently seeking four marine > data assistants to work at our modern complex of offices on the outskirts of > Cambridge. > > > You will be based in the Polar Data Centre working as part of a team of data > managers who are responsible for the management of data collected by UK funded > scientists in the polar regions. The marine data assistants will form a core > element of an exciting new project to enhance the availability and > accessibility of BAS marine data. Two of the posts will focus on cruise > metadata and events helping to compile a database of what occurred on each and > every BAS cruise. One post will focus on BAS multibeam bathymetric data, > processing and cleaning the raw data so it can be made available to scientists > worldwide for reuse. The final post will focus on processing and cleaning > navigational data collected during BAS cruises using a standardised > methodology. This will ensure it will always be possible to link what happened > on a cruise to where and when it happened. > > > We are looking for enthusiastic scientists or data managers with knowledge of > an aspect of marine science, an ability to learn quickly and who have a high > level of attention to detail. You will need a degree, or equivalent work > experience, in a related subject area and experience in either managing data, > or processing and cleaning data. You need to be able to rapidly understand new > datasets - what the data are, and how, and why, they were collected, and be > good at spotting errors or quality issues in datasets. You must be able to > prioritise tasks, clearly report progress and have the ability to work as a > team member and independently with minimal supervision. > > > Qualifications: Degree (or equivalent work experience) in a scientific or data > management subject area > > > Duration: Each post is a 7 month fixed term, full-time appointment (37 hours > per week), ideally starting in early September 2013. Please state in your > application if you have a preference for a particular post or whether you are > willing to be considered for any of them. > > > Salary: Salary will be in the range of ?19,740 to ?23,390 per annum pro-rata. > We offer a generous benefits package including a defined salary pension > scheme, free car parking, flexible working hours and 30 days annual leave pro- > rata. > > > On-line application forms and further information are available on our > website, please click on the 'Apply' button below. > > > These are also available from the Human Resources Section, British Antarctic > Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET. Tel: (01223) 221508. > > > Please quote reference: BAS 89/13 > > Closing date for receipt of application forms is 28th July 2013 > > Interviews are scheduled to be held on. w/c 5th August 2013 > > > We welcome applications from all sections of the community. People from ethnic > minorities are currently under-represented and their applications are > particularly welcome. > > > British Antarctic Survey -The Polar Data Centre > > Four Posts > > > Please quote ref no: 89/13 > > > Closing date for applications: 28 Jul 2013 at 11:59pm > > > > > > Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/8911/ From ceaker at utk.edu Sat Jul 6 18:32:46 2013 From: ceaker at utk.edu (Chris Eaker) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 18:32:46 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] SIG DL's Call for Proposals from Undergrads, Master's, and Recent Grads for ASIST 2013 Message-ID: *"Digital Liaisons: Engaging with Digital Curation Theory and Practice"* The Special Interest Group for Digital Libraries (SIG DL) of ASIS&T is seeking proposals for an *Undergraduate, Master?s, and Recently**Graduated Undergraduate and Master?s Students *(May 2011 or later) student research program at the ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting in Montreal November 1?6. This session is intended to provide students with an opportunity to present their work during the main conference on areas of interest relevant to information and knowledge management. The session will also serve as a social meeting point to facilitate networking between students, faculty, and professionals. Note: students do not have to attend the conference in order to qualify. To accommodate students who cannot attend the conference, we are accepting pre-made video presentations and mailed-in posters. All abstracts, presentation media, and posters will be published on the SIG DL website after the conference. The full Call for Proposals is located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10p6EbDzojSZS-2DDoJ5YH0TRAFCPuDOdydLJ6lbj2Jk/edit?usp=sharing SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 16, 2012 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: by September 27, 2012 A prize of $300 will be given for the best paper and $150 for the best poster. A prize for honorable mention for one paper and one poster with a prize of $100 each will also be awarded. Please see and/or redistribute this announcement to prospective students. Thank you, SIG DL Officers & SIG DL Student Panel Committee Email: asist.sigdl at gmail.com Web: http://www.asis.org/SIG/sigdl/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Wed Jul 10 06:18:54 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:18:54 -0300 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: NEWS RELEASE: First Alpha Release of Fedora 4 Now Available from Fedora Futures In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* July 10, 2013 Contact: Jonathan Markow Read release notes: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/REPONEXT/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+1+Release+Notes *NOW AVAILABLE: First Alpha Release of Fedora 4 from Fedora Futures* * * *Winchester, MA* DuraSpace and the Fedora Futures team is proud to announce the first Alpha release of Fedora 4. In addition to carrying forward the best qualities of the Fedora platform, Fedora 4 Alpha 1 addresses a number of high priority requirements expressed by the international repository community, including: ? increased performance, with enhanced vertical and horizontal scalability, ? improved durability and service availability, ? built-in support for participating in the world of linked open data, ? easier installation and deployment, and ? an improved platform for developers?one that is easier to work with and will engage a larger corps of developers. As an alpha release, Fedora 4.0 Alpha 1 is not feature complete. As the final release nears, we'll have full documentation and tooling for migrating existing Fedora 3 repositories, but at this time, we invite you to take this early release of Fedora 4 for a spin, validate our new ideas, contribute your own and join the effort. Developers from the Hydra and Islandora projects have already updated forks of their respective projects to work against Fedora 4's new APIs and now we're ready for the greater Fedora community to do the same. Download it now: https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-1 *New Features and Improvements* *Durability* ? Self-healing?When configured with redundant stores, Fedora supports detection and self-healing of corrupted files. ? Transactions?The Fedora APIs now support transactions, with full commit and rollback support. ? Clustering for high availability?Fedora now supports clustering multiple Fedora nodes to maximize redundancy and failover. ? Metrics and reporting?Built-in metrics and health-checks provide near real-time reporting of repository performance and statistics. *Performance* ? Batch operations?The Fedora API now supports batching of methods for increased read and write performance. ? Clustering for scalability?Flexible cluster configurations to scale horizontally for read and write performance. ? Projection, aka "instant ingest"?Fedora now supports "projecting" over external data sources (such as a filesystem) yet having those resources appear as part of the repository with full support for reading and writing to those external resources. *Flexibility* ? HATEOAS support?Fedora 4 now provides a RESTful, hypermedia-driven API that speaks RDF ? CMIS?Experimental support for Content Management Interoperability Services ? WebDAV?Experimental support for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. Work with repository content directly from your desktop. ? Eventing, messaging and web hooks?Fedora 4 provides expanded support for event-driven architectures, not only limited to JMS. ? OAuth 2?Experimental support for the OAuth 2.0 authorization standard, to support a wider range of authentication and authorization systems via delegation. ? Policy-driven storage?Experimental support for authoring policies that direct the storage of a resource based on object or datastream metadata. ? More storage options?In addition to filesystem persistence, Fedora 4 now supports higher performance, transactional stores including LevelDB, Berkeley DB and NoSQL stores such as MongoDB. *Acknowledgements* Our thanks and appreciation go out to the sponsors that generously provided the funding and developer resources that made this Alpha release possible. We hope you like what you see and will join us in building the future of Fedora. *Alpha 1 Sponsors* Brown University Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Columbia University Discovery Garden DuraSpace FIZ Karlsruhe Indiana University MediaShelf Northeastern University Oxford University Pennsylvania State University Smithsonian Institution Stanford University University of California, San Diego University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Virginia University of New South Wales *Get Involved* DuraSpace and the Fedora Futures Steering Group are seeking "platinum" sponsors to raise the level of support for Fedora to $500,000 a year for three years to catalyze the development of Fedora 4. If you are interested in finding out about how to get involved please contact Jonathan Markow at jjmarkow at duraspace.org. Find out more here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home. *About Fedora* Fedora is an open source project of the DuraSpace organization that provides a flexible, extensible and durable digital object management services. First released in 2004, it has hundreds of adopters worldwide, with deep roots in the research, scientific, intellectual and cultural heritage communities. See http://fedora-commons.org/ for more information. It is supported by its community of users, and stewarded by DuraSpace. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dminor at ucsd.edu Wed Jul 10 10:04:47 2013 From: dminor at ucsd.edu (Minor, David) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:04:47 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Research Data Curation job Message-ID: Hi all - I wanted to pass along a new position that has opened up in the UCSD Library's Research Data Curation Program. This job is for a project manager to work with researchers, providing a range of curation services. It's funded via our campus cyberinfrastructure program, so there will be opportunities/expectations to interact with a wide number of campus groups. This would be an exciting position for anyone who wants to help develop this emerging program and work with forward-thinking researchers at UCSD. I'd appreciate if you would pass it along to anyone you think might be interested. http://jobs.ucsd.edu/bulletin/job.aspx?cat=search&sortby=rank&jobnum_in=67160&search=67160 David. David Minor Interim Head, Research Data Curation Program Director, Digital Preservation Initiatives Chronopolis Program Manager UC San Diego Library From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Thu Jul 18 10:01:09 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:01:09 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] CALL: Host the Annual International Open Repositories Conference in 2015 Message-ID: *--sent on behalf of the Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee--* * * *Call for Proposals to Host the Annual Open Repositories Conference, 2015* *Read it online: http://bit.ly/13AuTJq* The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks proposals from candidate host organizations for the 2015 Open Repositories Annual Conference. Proposals from all geographic areas 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 . 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 home page: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/ . 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 this call for proposals out through your communities. 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URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Thu Jul 25 09:51:19 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:51:19 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] DuraSpace Supports the 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* July 25, 2013 Contact: Carol Minton Morris Read it online: http://bit.ly/18xtoBt *Winchester, MA * The DuraSpace organization is a proud contributor to and supporter of the newly released NDSA 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship because we, like the leading government, academic, and private sector organizations who are part of the NDSA, believe that preserving our intellectual, cultural and scientific heritage is vital. The aim of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship is to highlight emerging technological trends, identify gaps in digital stewardship capacity, and to provide funders and decision-makers with insight into the work needed to ensure that today's valuable digital content remains accessible and comprehensible in the future. A coordinated national approach to the preservation of our shared digital assets serves us all by supporting a thriving economy, a robust democracy, and a rich cultural heritage. The inaugural release of the 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship and an executive summary are now available: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/nationalagenda/index.html The NDSA 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship has been developed and is being promoted by members of the of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), a 145-member strong, volunteer-powered organization convened by the Library of Congress in 2010 to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to preserve our nation's digital resources for the benefit of present and future generations. DuraSpace joins the NDSA in this mission because our organization is committed to our digital future. We encourage you to review the NDSA 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship, reflect it out through your communities and consider how the work you are engaged in might sync with National Agenda priorities. What is digital stewardship? It is the series of managed activities, policies, strategies and actions that ensure that digital content of vital importance to the nation is acquired, managed, organized, preserved and accessible for as long as necessary. The 2014 National Agenda integrates the perspective of dozens of experts and hundreds of institutions, convened through the Library of Congress, it outlines the challenges and opportunities related to digital preservation activities in four broad areas: Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices; Digital Content Areas; Infrastructure Development; and Research Priorities. The National Agenda identifies a number of areas targeted for key investment, including: ?Digital Stewardship Training and Staffing ?Applied Research on Information Valuation, Curation Cost and effective auditing ?Experiments in Interoperability and Portability of Storage Architectures ?Integration of Digital Forensics Tools into Stewardship Workflows ?Development of the evidence base through surveys, experiments, and testbed Over the coming year the NDSA plans to promote the National Agenda and explore educational and collaborative opportunities with all interested parties. *About NDSA* Founded in 2010, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is a consortium of over 145 member institutions committed to the long-term preservation and stewardship of digital information. NDSA member institutions come from all sectors, and include universities, consortia, professional societies, commercial business, professional associations, and government agencies at the federal, state, and local level. Further information about the NDSA can be found athttp:// www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/. *About DuraSpace* DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. 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