From astein at illinois.edu Wed Sep 3 15:17:23 2014 From: astein at illinois.edu (Stein, Ayla) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 19:17:23 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Reminder: Call for Survey Participation: DAMS Migration Message-ID: ****Please excuse cross-postings**** Greetings: This is a friendly reminder that our survey, "Identifying Motivations for DAMS Migration: A Survey", concludes on October 1, 2014. We are soliciting survey responses from information professionals at institutions which are migrating, have migrated, or will migrate to a new digital asset management system. The title of the survey is "Identifying Motivations for DAMS Migration: A Survey." For the purposes of this survey, a digital asset management system (DAMS) is software that supports the ingest, "description, tracking, discovery, retrieval, searching, and distribution of collections of digital objects [1]". Some examples of commonly used DAMS are: CONTENTdm, DSpace, Islandora, DigiTool, Fedora, etc. Please note that this survey does not focus on systems used exclusively as institutional repositories, which we consider to be repositories that only provide access to the "intellectual output of an institution [2]". The results from our survey will possibly lead to a publication in a professional journal and/or presentations at relevant professional conferences. If your institution meets these parameters, we would appreciate your participation in this survey. The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete and will not ask for or obtain any personally identifying information. You can access the survey here: https://uiuc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3aw56frpWbGLlgV If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us (information provided below). We look forward to seeing your responses and sharing the results of our research. Thank you. 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URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Thu Sep 4 09:09:10 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:09:10 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Introducing Fedora 4.0 Beta 3 Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Sept. 4, 2014 Contact: David Wilcox Read it online: http://bit.ly/1uBPJYE *Introducing Fedora 4.0 Beta 3* Winchester, MA DuraSpace and the Fedora community of users and developers are pleased to announce that the Fedora 4.0 platform is one step closer to a full production version of the software with the release of Fedora 4.0 Beta 3. The Fedora 4.0 feature set is available for testing with this release, including a human-readable file system export, clustering for high-availability use cases, and support for millions of objects. This release is part of a broad initiative to make significant changes to the robust Fedora framework for building digital repositories to serve the community for the next decade. Full release notes are available , and highlights include: - Transparent JCR/XML file system export - Clustering support for high-availability use cases - Demonstrated performance: 10 million objects via REST-API, 16 million via federation - Reviewed and published Fedora 4 RDF ontology Download Fedora 4.3 Beta here . Get in Here We are making progress towards completing acceptance tests, but we still need to test the remaining features before we can release the production version of Fedora 4.0. Please take some time to install the Fedora 4.0 Beta (or just use the one-click-run application), test out some features, and submit your results . Three Beta Pilot projects are underway. These projects will test a number of Fedora 4.0 features in a production-like environment over the course of a few months. Each of these projects will be showcased in a short webinar series this Fall - details will be available soon. Beta Pilot Projects represent a larger commitment of time and resources than acceptance tests, but they also present an opportunity to test real institutional use cases with Fedora 4.0, with added support from DuraSpace and the Fedora community. If your institution is interested in participating, please contact David Wilcox . How Does DuraSpace Help? DuraSpace works collaboratively with organizations that use Fedora to advance the design, development and sustainability of the project. As a non-profit, DuraSpace provides business support services that include technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration. About Fedora Fedora is an open source project that provides 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 Serena.Coates at slq.qld.gov.au Thu Sep 4 18:59:04 2014 From: Serena.Coates at slq.qld.gov.au (Serena Coates) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:59:04 +1000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] iPRES2014 - Interview with Peter McKinney Message-ID: <5AED9FAE4FA42E42B5B9CF2B5B21F10BA94DCE0AEA@MSEXCH02.slq.qld.gov.au> Hello colleagues, iPRES2014 in Melbourne, Australia, is now only one month away. Early bird registrations closed on Monday, but there is still time to register. Be quick, as places are filling fast! www.ipres2014.org Check out this interview with Peter McKinney from the National Library of New Zealand, who is co-chair of Workshops and Tutorials: https://vimeo.com/105087896 Regards, iPRES2014 Programme Committee >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> See what is happening at the State Library of Queensland... >>>>> >>>>> http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0005/184307/email_banner.jpg >>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ******************* Disclaimer ******************* This e-mail, together with any attachments, is intended for the named recipient(s) only. This e-mail may contain information which is confidential, of a private nature or which is subject to legal professional privilege or copyright. 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The white paper entitled ?From Theory to Action: ?Good Enough? Digital Preservation Solutions for Under-Resourced Cultural Heritage Institutions? scores available solutions against an evaluative matrix based on the intersection of the Digital Curation Centre?s digital curation lifecycle and the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model. Preservica Cloud Edition scored well against the POWRR team?s Tool Grid, addressing all 21 functions for a Digital Preservation solution. General recommendations in the Moving Towards the Future section of the study outline ?that institutions with some financial resources available, but do not expect to add personnel should investigate Preservica ?.. which seems to be the best out-of-the-box solution among the limited products tested during the grant period. Preservica requires the lowest learning curve and minimal staff-side interventions.? One reviewer in the report also mentioned that Preservica?s ability to gather content via web crawling as especially useful in his/her setting. S/he concluded that ?this tool went above and beyond my expectations. The interface makes following the workflow very easy and manageable?Using this tool makes me more confident in my ability to do digital preservation, even if I still feel like a novice.? Preservica Cloud Edition is available from just $3,950 annually and includes: >a full suite of OAIS compatible workflows for ingest, access, preservation, management, storage, and administration > Public Access module, DSpace connector, Linked Data Registries, Amazon S3 and/or Glacier > all hosting, backup, operations, training, maintenance and support You can access the full report via: http://preservica.com/resource/imls-powrr-report/ More information at www.preservica.com/pricing/us-usd/ Joanna Efthymiou Business Development Preservica 26 The Quadrant, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3YS Registered in England No. 7998621 Preservica is part of Tessella Group T: +44 (0)1235 546611 E: joanna.efthymiou at preservica.com W: www.preservica.com TW: @dPreservation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The option to store content processed by Archivematica in Arkivum platforms, both on-site and in the cloud, will be integrated into an autumn 2014 public release of Archivematica. As with other enhancements to the Archivematica platform, the integration will be made available as open-source code for further development and enhancements under the AGPL3 license. ?We are excited to be working with Arkivum, a well-established provider of secure, long-term storage tools and services,? said Evelyn McLellan, President of Artefactual Systems. ?We believe institutions will see this as a comprehensive solution for developing their digital repositories.? ?As institutions face rising data volumes, the need to preserve valuable data sets for the future increases, ? Jim Cook, CEO of Arkivum explained. ?Working with Artefactual to integrate our two technology solutions will enable us to offer an end-to-end solution for digital preservation and long-term archiving.? 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Features of note include enhanced object and datastream versioning, improved support for linked data, a XACML authorization implementation, REST-API improvements, transparent file system export, and many other improvements. In addition to these features, a great deal of effort has been put into improving the test coverage and overall performance of Fedora 4. We encourage the community to download and install Fedora 4 (a one-click installer is available) and test out the new features. Fedora 4.0 is only the first release in the 4.x line - a number of features , including support for Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 migrations , are planned for subsequent 4.x releases. While releasing Fedora 4.0 into production is our top development priority, we must also start scheduling the 2015 January to June block of code sprints to work on the next 4.x release. Please consider contributing developer time to these sprints by contacting Andrew Woods (awoods at duraspace.org), the Fedora Technical Lead. *Fundraising* We are in the midst of our annual membership campaign, which runs from early May until the end of October. The annual membership goal for 2014 is $500,000, and as of this report we have raised $478,000. The Fedora project has a total of 51 members; this includes 13 new members and 38 renewals from last year's members. The Fedora Product Manager will continue to coordinate with members of the Fedora Steering Group to expand the pool of DuraSpace members supporting the Fedora project to reach the annual funding target for 2014. *Community Engagement and Outreach* In the past quarter, developers have continued to hold daily meetings in conjunction with development sprints, as well as weekly Fedora committer calls attended by the broader community. In June, the Fedora community came together for Open Repositories in Helsinki, Finland. Fedora featured prominently at the conference, with workshops, presentations, user group sessions, and the official announcement of Fedora 4.0 Beta. *Fedora 4 Training* As we approach the production release of Fedora 4.0, we expect members of the Fedora community to work toward deploying Fedora 4 locally. Consequently, many community members have raised the issue of training as a priority. In response to this demand, three Fedora 4 training workshops have been scheduled alongside events in October: - DC Fedora User Group Meeting (Oct. 6-7) - Islandora Camp Colorado (Oct. 16) - eResearch Australasia (Oct. 31) In preparation for these events, the Fedora Product Manager and Technical Lead have been building reusable training modules for a one-day curriculum. These training modules will serve as a basis for expanding to longer, more in-depth training workshops in 2015. *Upcoming Conferences* In September, Fedora will be featured in presentations at The Future of Information Infrastructure and PASIG in Karlsruhe, Germany, immediately followed by a Fedora User Group meeting . Members of the Fedora Leadership Group, along with the Fedora Product Manager, will also be present at the 4th RDA Plenary in Amsterdam to discuss the project with the research data community. -- 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... 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The software release is the culmination of a three-year (2011-2014), collaborative effort between the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. The project was made possible through two phases of funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. "This is an exciting milestone," says Christopher (Cal) Lee, principal investigator for the BitCurator project and associate professor at SILS. "Although there are already numerous collecting institutions across the globe that are using the BitCurator environment, release of version 1.0 is a further sign of the software?s maturity." Matthew Kirschenbaum, co-principle investigator for the project and associate director at MITH, concurs. "There is now widespread recognition that digital forensics methods and tools have a significant role in the cultural heritage sector. With the release of BitCurator 1.0, collecting professionals now have convenient access to a range of open source digital forensics tools to assist in the processing of born-digital and hybrid collections." Among its many functionalities, the BitCurator environment allows individuals to create forensic disk images, perform data triage tasks, analyze and report on file systems, identify personal and sensitive information (such as social security numbers or credit card information), and enables the capture and export of technical metadata. With the completion of the BitCurator project, support for the BitCurator environment and associated user community is shifting to the BitCurator Consortium (BCC) [http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator-consortium/] an independent, community-led membership association that will serve as the host and center of administrative, user and community support for the software. More information about the project is available at http://bitcurator.net. 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At iPRES this year, we are extremely excited to be able to present a full day event that should help you answer some of these questions. We have invited five digital preservation system vendors to come and detail how their system works. All the developers have been given a list of preservation activities that they should cover in their allotted time. The developers are: Duraspace, Artefactual Systems, KEEP Solutions, Preservica and Ex Libris. This comparison across five systems should provide you with a great opportunity to: - Compare systems using a set list of criteria - Ask questions about systems in a relaxed environment - Judge how far digital preservation systems have come and how far we still have to go - Highlight to vendors functionality that is important to your organisation. We have attached the list of criteria we have asked the developers to discuss to give an indication of the shape of the event. If you are beginning on the search for a system, this is your chance to get a feel for what is available. If you already have a system, this is your chance to do the DP system equivalent of looking around your neighbour's house. Cost for attending this one day event is $165. If you would like to register your attendance, please email ipres2014 at slv.vic.gov.au >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> See what is happening at the State Library of Queensland... >>>>> >>>>> http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0005/184307/email_banner.jpg >>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ******************* Disclaimer ******************* This e-mail, together with any attachments, is intended for the named recipient(s) only. This e-mail may contain information which is confidential, of a private nature or which is subject to legal professional privilege or copyright. 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