Richard Rodgers presented this talk based on the work of he and MacKenzie Smith in the Digital Library Research Group at MIT. The original abstract of the presentation was:

Many questions are raised as previously unreachable digital content is found in and among new repositories--is each repository an island or …

Chris Wilper gave this presentation on behalf of the work that he and Aaron Birkland did to improve the performance of the Fedora Resource Index.

Version 2.0 of the Fedora digital object repository software added a feature called the Resource Index (RI). Based on Resource …

This is a summary of a presentation by James L. Hilton, Vice President and CIO of University of Virginia, at the opening keynote session of Open Repositories 2007. I tried to capture the esessence of his presentation, and omissions, contradictions, and inaccuracies in this summary are likely mine and not …

This morning, Sandy Payette of Cornell University and FEDORA project co-director, gave an update on the FEDORA project including a statement of a vision for FEDORA's future, information about the emerging FEDORA Commons non-profit, and a status report/roadmap for the software itself. Below is a summary based on my …

Below is the outline of the Ohio DRC presentation from today's FEDORA session at Open Repositories conference. Comments welcome!

• Executive Overview of the Ohio Digital Resource Commons
  • Facets of the Digital Resource Commons Vision
  • DRC Vision (Multi-Institutional)
  • DRC Vision (Cross-Institutional)
  • DRC Vision (Access Control)
  • DRC Vision (Multi-Media)
  • The DRC Vision …

Are you blogging the Open Repositories conference in San Antonio this week? Are you posting pictures to Flickr?

if so, may I suggest using the 'icor2007' tag when posting your content. When doing so, the HitchHikr service will aggregate content from Technorati and Flickr based on that tag. (Why not …

This tour is designed to show the overall architecture of a FEDORA digital object repository application within the JBoss Seam framework while at the same time pointing out individual design decisions and extension points that are specific to the Ohio Digital Resource Commons application. Geared towards software developers, a familiarity …

Sandy Payette, Co-Director of the Fedora Project and Researcher in the Cornell Information Science department, announced a tentative date for the release 2.2 of the FEDORA digital object repository.

The Fedora development team would like to announce that Fedora 2.2 will be released on Friday, January 19, 2007 …

Open Repositories 2007 is coming up next year, and it looks to be an interesting meeting. The first day is open user group meetings for DSpace, Fedora, and Eprints, followed by general conference sessions that cover issues that cut across all of the open repository systems. This year, the user …