Call for Papers extension—Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open

December 21, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized, VIVO

The 13th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2018, will be held on June 4th-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA. The call for papers and scholarships have been extended until the 15th January 2018. The theme for Open Repositories 2018 is Sustaining Open. http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/ Research and Cultural Heritage communities have embraced the idea of Open; open communities, open source software, … Read More

BOAI at Fifteen

December 21, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Richard Poynder, independent journalist and blogger specialising in information technology, scholarly communication, professional online database services, open science, e-Science, and intellectual property. I have posted a number of responses to my question asking people what they think the stakeholders of scholarly communication  community should be doing now to fully realise the vision outlined at the 2002 meeting that led to the Budapest Open … Read More

CfP: 14th International Conference on Research Information Systems, CRIS2018

December 19, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized, VIVO

From Ed Simons, euroCRIS President From June 13-16th 2018 euroCRIS will hold its 14th International Conference on Research Information Systems, called CRIS2018. The conference will take place in Umea Sweden, and will be organised in co-operation with Umea University.  The theme of the conference is ‘FAIRness of Research Information“. Here is the link to the Call for Papers (http://www.cris2018.se/cfp/) and guidelines for … Read More

From Ethiopia to Portugal: Say Goodbye to 2017 and Welcome to 2018

December 19, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Claudio Cortese, 4Science   4Science is in Africa to support VLIR-UOS. VLIR-UOS is a Flemish initiative that supports partnerships between universities in Flanders (Belgium) and in developing countries, looking for innovative responses to global and local challenges. In the framework of the institutional cooperation with Bahir Dar University (BDU), Ethiopia, and particularly the Phase 1 Transversal Institutional … Read More

Migrating to DSpace

December 19, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Atmire   Are your considering to migrate your current repository to DSpace but you are wondering what the options are? Over the years, Atmire has carried out migrations from a variety of platforms such as EPrints, Fedora, Digital Commons, CONTENTdm, DigiTool, Equella and homegrown software. Because of its wide array of commonly used import facilities … Read More

iPRES 2018 Preliminary Call for Contributions

December 18, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Sibyl Schaefer, Chronopolis Program Manager and Digital Preservation Analyst, University of California, San Diego iPRES 2018 BOSTON—Where Art and Science Meet —The Art In the Science & The Science In the Art of Digital Preservation—will be co-hosted by MIT Libraries and Harvard Library on September 24-27, 2018. Help us celebrate the first 15 Years of iPRES, the premier international … Read More

CONTRIBUTE an Essay to Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities Collection

December 14, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

From Marta Mestrovic Deyrup, Seton Hall University Libraries While the debates in and around the digital humanities continue–what they are, why they are, what they contribute to humanities scholarship–those working in the field know the truly transformative work being done both nationally and internationally. This proposed collection of essays, Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities, will build on the … Read More