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Save the following dates for the All About Repositories Webinar Series. Pre-registration is required for all seminars at http://www.education-webevents.com/
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DSpace and Fedora: A Collaboration Update
Wed., February 18, 2009
9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 a.m. ET
The DSpace Federation and Fedora Commons came together in the summer of 2008 to work on joint initiatives to better serve both open source repository communities. Several directions have emerged. For example, new funding from the Mellon Foundation will allow DSpace and Fedora to jointly specify and design "DuraSpace," a new web-based service that will allow institutions to easily distribute content to multiple storage providers, both "cloud-based" and institution-based over the next five months. Join Michele Kimpton, Executive Director, DSpace Foundation, and Sandy Payette, Executive Director Fedora Commons for a 60-minute update on multiple dimensions of this dynamic collaboration between two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content.
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