Dear members of the community, At the upcoming JASIG conference in Minneapolis April 27-April 30, Mark Diggory will be giving training for DSpace users (sys admins and developers) on how to upgrade your DSpace instance from 1.4 to 1.5 and how to develop your site using Manakin. Mark is a key contributor in the DSpace community, a DSpace system manager from MIT and a committer in the DSpace community. He was instrumental in launching 1.5 and moving DSpace onto Maven.
The training will take place on Sunday April 27th, prior to the conference. The cost is $150 per seminar if you are not a JASIG member. You can find out more at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/seminars.html . If you choose to stay for the conference there are several DSpace presentations at JASIG as well as DLF conference ( in Minneapolis the same days). Some interesting presentations at JASIG are: Monday- Semantic web activities in higher education- this will include some of the work done by the SIMILE team, which has created tools that can be used with DSpace Engaging the user community- I am moderating a panel that will include key leaders from 3 open source projects. they will discuss what tools, process and techniques they use to ensure all the community has a voice in the open source development process. NITLE-DSpace initiatives for small colleges- will be talking about the development of the DSpace community within the NITLE membership organization Google web toolkit- This may be of interest to DSpace users as we ( the community) looks at the possibility of integrating the google toolkit into DSpace Tuesday- If we build it will they come? Part Deux- Cornell University will be giving an update on how they have overcome some of the hurdles populating their DSpace repository Personal repository space vs. the personal portal-I hot topic right now, will be interesting to hear what Chris Awre from U of Hull has to say even if it is a Fedora repository, maybe we can learn Shibboleth 2.0- an overview for developers- if you are looking at shibboleth for your authentication system this could be of interest. Wednesday- AT DLF 9-10:30 DSpace Foundation- strategy and roadmap for 08/09 including the new architecture work- if you did not hear my presentation at OR2008- I will be giving an abridged version of the talk at DLF National Library of Medicine- Experiment to investigate the scalability of a DSpace based archive. Apparently NLM has run over one million items through the DSpace system with success. You can find a full list of both programs at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2008/index.htm If you are a DLF member, you can attend JASIG for one day of the conference by paying $150 for the day. You will see this option on the online registration, or you can pay the day you show up. Michele Kimpton DSpace Executive Director ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
