Each month, we highlight news relating to digital scholarship, access and preservation at Berkeley and around the world. To contribute, email Lizzy Ha.
On Campus
I-School’s Master’s 2009 Final Project Showcase
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 4:00pm – 8:00pm at South Hall
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090514finalprojects
The I-School’s class of 2009 will presenting their final project. “Final projects are the culmination of the students’ two years of work in the School of Information’s Master’s program.” The final projects will touch on one of three themes: Organizational Issues; Social Networking and Collaboration; and Communication and Memory.
Around the World
DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Join Together to Create DuraSpace Organization
http://www.dspace.org/index.php?/News/DSpace-Foundation-and-Fedora-Commons-Join-Together-to-Create-DuraSpace-Organization.html
Earlier this month, DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons announced their new partnership. Together, DSpace and Fedora Commons will be forming “DuraSpace,” which will
continue to focus on Dspace’s and Fedora’s repository platforms as well as “offer new technologies and services that respond to the dynamic environment of the Web and to new requirements from existing and future users.”
Zentity
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/zentity/
Zenity, a Research Output Repository Platform, developed by Microsoft Research is available now. This platform “provides a built-in ScholarlyWorks data model with pre-defined entities” as well as allows users to customize the platform to meet their own individual needs. Zenity supports RSS, OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, AtomPub and Sword.
New MA programme in Digital Asset Management
http://www.stoa.org/?p=882
A new Master program in Digital Asset Management is being launched at King’s College London. This is a collaboration between the Center for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) and the Center for e-Research, which are both at King’s College. This program is an addition to MA Digital Humanities, MA Digital Culture and Technology, PhD (Digital Humanities), which are currently being offered there.
Workshop On Integrating Digital Library Content with Computational Tools and Services
June 19, 2009 in Austin, Texas, USA
See http://www.music-ir.org/sgdl-workshop/sgdl-cfp.pdf for a more complete CFP.
This conference will focus on the creation, development, and future deployment of the “second generation digital libraries” (SGDL). 10 years ago, the development of first generation digital libraries lead to “the browsing, searching and then retrieving of digital materials.” However, with the improvement of technology and services, “exciting new opportunities are arising to create SGDL by extending the standard DL use paradigm to include the analysis of the retrieved materials in a tightly integrated manner.
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-09.htm
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project
According to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) was launched at the end of April. This is a social tagging project meant to keep track of new [Open Access] projects. “The idea is to tag new OA developments and recruit others to do the same. On the many-eyeballs principle, we’ll notice many more new developments together than any of us could notice on our own. A group feed will broadcast the results of what we notice to everyone who wants to follow along.”
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