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Interested in the DSpace 7 "Big Picture"? Tim Donohue, DSpace Tech Lead and the DSpace 7 UI Outreach Group have written a concise summary of the initiative including background, a breakdown of the technology plan, and more. Read more here.
Particularly of interest for those of you in the DC area, the Georgetown University Library will host a DSpace User Group Meeting Aug 22-23. Here are the event details.
Fedora
A recent web seminar entitled, "Powering Linked Data and Hosted Solutions with Fedora" offered a preview of Fedora-related OR2017 presentations. David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager with DuraSpace, gave an overview of Fedora with a focus on its native linked data capabilities. Hannah Frost, Manager, Digital Library Product and Service Management with Stanford University, presented Hyku, the Hydra-in-a-box repository product, which provides a hosted option for Fedora-based repositories. Esmé Cowles, Digital Infrastructure Developer with Princeton University, demonstrated how the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) can be integrated with Fedora and Hydra to manage digitized books, manuscripts, and other image-based content in a flexible and reusable way. Tom Murphy, Director of Computing and Network Services with the University of Michigan - ICPSR, discussed going into production with Fedora 4 using a custom application framework. A recording of this webinar along with the presentation slides is available at http://duraspace.org/duraspace-solutions.
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Jim Hendler, one of the originators of the Semantic web and a keynote speaker at the first VIVO Conference, will give a keynote address at this year's conference as well. You can read more about Jim and his role in creating the Semantic Web here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hendler.
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