Open Access Repository Ranking

Dear Colleagues,

the Open Access Repository Ranking (OARR) was launched September 9, 2014
during the Open-Access-Tage conference.[1] It is the idea and goal of
OARR to show best practices and role models of the German repository
landscape so that other repository operators can learn from them and
improve their services step by step. OARR is a research project based at
the Information Management Department of Professor Peter Schirmbacher at
the Berlin School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS),
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) and currently lists 152 open
access publication repositories from Germany according to an open
metric. Open metric means:

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Technology, Standards, Software Digital Scholarly Editions Survey

Dear all,

The requirements study for a publication architecture targeting multiple media is one of my research priorities for the DiXiT Network.

A survey that hopefully will help to assess the software and technologies used for creation and publishing of digital scholarly editions. The survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/publishing_digital_editions.

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DC-2014 early registration *DEADLINE EXTENSION* to September 20th

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for registration for DC-2014 has been EXTENDED to 20 September 2014. All you have to do to get the Early Registration price is go to our registration page on the Conference website listed below and follow the simple instructions. If you work in metadata, you won’t want to miss DC-2014.
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REGISTRATION: http://ow.ly/B65by
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://ow.ly/B65OM
CONFERENCE DATES: 811 October 2014
CONFERENCE VENUE: 
   AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center,
   University of Texas at Austin campus
CONFERENCE THEME:
   Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory
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The Indiana Magazine of History now in Open Journal Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Published continuously since 1905, the Indiana Magazine of History (IMH,http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/imh) is one of the nation’s oldest historical journals. Since 1913, the IMH has been edited and published quarterly at Indiana University, Bloomington. The IMH online provides free online access to all but the most recent two years of the journals with release of new content scheduled annually in March. For access to the journal’s most recent issues, you may subscribe directly to the IMH through the journal’s website: http://www.indiana.edu/~imaghist/home/subscriptions.html.

Web service correspSearch (beta version) now online

Dear colleagues,

With the new web service “correspSearch” (http://correspsearch.bbaw.de) you may search within the metadata of various scholarly letter editions with regard to senders, addressees, as well as places and time of origin. For this purpose, a website and an application programming interface (API) are provided.

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DC-2014 Special Session: RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control

RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control
Half-day Special Session @ DC-2014
Thursday, 9 October 2014 – 1:30-5:00
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LOCATION: Austin, Texas, USA
VENUE: AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center (http://www.meetattexas.com/)
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