What

4th D.C. Fedora User Group Meeting

Where

Gelman Library
George Washington University
2130 H St. NW
Washington, DC 20052

When

14 Oct 2011
9:00 am until 4:00 pm

Who

Agenda / Presentations

Introduction

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome, by Karim Boughida

9:15 – 9:30 Some haranguing about how we need to get the group organized a bit, by Thorny Staples

  • Outlined community roles: Steward, Evangelist, Knowledge Gardner

9:30 – 10:00 Val Hollister gave an update about DuraSpace: SLIDES

  • 12-month highlights
Applications on top of Fedora

10:00 – 10:30 Matt Zumwalt (MediaShelf) talked about the Hydra Project.

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:30 Mark Leggott (DiscoveryGarden and UPEI) talked about Islandora

Updates from User Institutions

11:30 - 11:50 Goddard Space Flight Center: Repository, Mitzi Cole

11:50 – 11:55 National Agriculture Library, Don Gourley

11:55 – 12:00 National Library of Medicine, John Doyle

Lunch

1:30 – 1:50 National Technical Information Service, Donald Hagen

1:50 – 2:10 Rutgers University, Ron Jantz

2:10 – 2:30 Smithsonian Institution, Thorny Staples

2:30 – 2:50 University of Virignia: Libra, Julie Meloni

2:50 – 3:10 US Geological Survey, Helen Tong

3:10 - 3:30 DuraSpace, Andrew Woods

  • Provided update on DuraCloud development and release status
  • Detailed integration opportunities with Fedora: SyncTool and CloudSync

Summary

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