Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA To celebrate the online development and the
dissemination of diverse, often hidden digital assets, DuraSpace is
pleased to announce three winners of the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access
Week Contest. The contest solicited examples of repositories that have
made significant resources more available to help shape the global
knowledge landscape. The winners and their stories will be featured on
a Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC “All About Repositories” Web Seminar on Oct. 14,
2009 (register here: http://www.education-webevents.com/).
Luise Barnikel, Sales and Marketing Associate, IssueLab (http://www.issuelab.org/
), described the “2008 flexAbility Toolkit” designed to help employers
with workplace disability issues in her winning entry entitled,
“Social Policy Research: How Access Shaped Practice.” Bryan Beecher,
Director, Computing & Network Services, Inter-University Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/)
, University of Michigan, supports the mission of ICPSR which has
delivered content using advanced technologies for six decades. He won
with his entry, “Cold, Dark, and Lonely: An Archive Moves Online.”
The history and culture of Forsythe County, North Carolina is the
focus of a collection of over 12000 digital images (http://digitalforsyth.org
) that Erik Mitchell described in his winning story “Building a
Community Digital Library Using Dspace.”
Read the winning stories here:
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/08/announcing-the-duraspacesparc-oa-week-contest-winners/
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
[email protected]
Skype: carolmmorris
607 255-2702
twit...@duraspace
http://DuraSpace.org
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