[Dspace-tech] SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 (Nov 2008)

2008-06-27 Thread John S. Erickson
This wasn't /completely/ cross-posted, apparently...found it over on the Fedora list (26 Jun)... Please excuse cross-postings Washington, DC Higher-education leader David Shulenburger, Science Commons head John Wilbanks, and marketing communications strategist Bob Witeck are keynote speakers

[Dspace-tech] SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 (Nov 2008)

2008-06-27 Thread John S. Erickson
This wasn't /completely/ cross-posted, apparently...found it over on the Fedora list (26 Jun)... Please excuse cross-postings Washington, DC Higher-education leader David Shulenburger, Science Commons head John Wilbanks, and marketing communications strategist Bob Witeck are keynote speakers

[Dspace-tech] SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 (Nov 2008)

2008-06-27 Thread John S. Erickson
This wasn't /completely/ cross-posted, apparently...found it over on the Fedora list (26 Jun)... Please excuse cross-postings Washington, DC Higher-education leader David Shulenburger, Science Commons head John Wilbanks, and marketing communications strategist Bob Witeck are keynote speakers

[Dspace-tech] Slides from European Handle System Workshop (17 Jun, Brussels)

2008-06-24 Thread John S. Erickson
Not sure why these haven't been distributed...but here they are! http://www.handle.net/workshop_08/ Handle System Workshop 17 June 2008 Offices of the European Union Brussels, Belgium CNRI sponsored a Handle System Workshop on the afternoon of June 17th in Brussels, Belgium at the Offices of

Re: [Dspace-tech] item rating system

2008-04-09 Thread John S. Erickson
I don't understand why an item rating system would be well-suited for manakin --- even though I'm wearing the Manakin T-Shirt today! ;) I see item rating as a function of a recommender system (c.f. the work by Minho or HPLabs) and thus deeper than interface... Yes, the manner and style in

Re: [Dspace-tech] Hardware used in DSpace repositories

2008-04-08 Thread John S. Erickson
In addition to answers you might get through this list, make sure to get a copy of the ARL publication SPEC Kit 292: Institutional Repositories July 2006 (ISBN 1-59407-708-8) which includes a survey of hardware used in IR installations, including DSpace. It is a useful publication to have on

[Dspace-tech] OR08 video podcast available

2008-04-07 Thread John S. Erickson
For some reason the Fedora people are seeing these announcements but we aren't: ...Last week ECS and the University hosted Open Repositories 2008, which attracted over 450 people from around the world. The conference was a huge success! Our video podcast gives an impression of the excitement

[Dspace-tech] OpenHandle Gallery Page [from Handle-info]

2008-03-17 Thread John S. Erickson
The following is from Tony Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED], who has been active in the OpenHandle project...his original posting was to the handle-info list Friday...It occurred to me that some of you might have material that matches his request for some public handles which would make use of the

[Dspace-tech] [oai-ore] April 4 meeting in Southampton UK for European roll-out of ORE Specifications

2008-01-23 Thread John S. Erickson
Forwarded on behalf of Carl and Herbert: = Apologies for cross-posting A meeting will be held on April 4, 2008 at the University of Southampton, in conjunction with Open Repositories 2008, to roll-out the beta release of the OAI-ORE specifications. This meeting is the European follow-on

Re: [Dspace-tech] Watermarking images on-the-fly

2008-01-10 Thread John S. Erickson
What are you trying to achieve? * Are you looking for visible or invisible watermarks (steganography, ala Digimarc et.al.)? * Are you looking to have on-the-fly information embedded? On a per-user basis? * If yes, how do you plan to keep track of that information? And if yes to the latter,

[Dspace-tech] [announcement] OAI-ORE Open Meeting (03 March 2008, Johns Hopkins Univ)

2007-11-01 Thread John S. Erickson
Forwarded for Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel: = Apologies for cross-posting A meeting will be held on March 3, 2008 at Johns Hopkins University to roll-out the first beta release of the OAI-ORE specifications. These specifications describe a data model to identify and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Is anyone using encryption in DSpace?

2007-10-24 Thread John S. Erickson
Susan Thornton wrote: We are currently running a Production instance of DSpace 1.4.2 and would like to find out what we would need to do in order to implement encryption capabilities in DSpace? We may only need to be able to encrypt documents, however I'd like to hear from anyone who has

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and Fedora

2007-09-04 Thread John S. Erickson
Anny Bridge wrote: Is there any cases about integrating DSpace with Fedora? I would like to do some research about this subject,any suggestions are most welcome. A great example of this sort of integration is Stuart Lewis, et.al.'s work with the JISC-funded Repository Bridge project, c.f.