NEWS FOR JULY 2008

The beta version of the OAI-ORE specifications and implementation documents have been released: www.openarchives.org/ore/toc. See press release at www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/oreBetaPressRelease.pdf.

Podcast interviews with selected presenters and attendees at the CNI Spring 2008 Task Force Meeting are available at connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastsfromthecni2008spr/46761. A short version of the discussion with Clifford Lynch was featured in the monthly podcast EDUCAUSE Now, show #2: connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/educausenowshow2p2pcliffo/46583.

Presentation materials for project briefings as well as for plenary sessions from the CNI Spring 2008 Task Force Meeting are now available at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2008a.spring.

The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in Humanities Collections and Resources. Guidelines are avaialbe at www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Collections_and_Resources.html. The application receipt deadline is July 31, 2008.

The Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley has released the interim report
Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An In-depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them,
cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=300.

The Digital Lives Project (www.bl.uk/digital-lives), which deals with the implications of the digital age for collections of personal materials, is conducting a survey at tinyurl.com/5wtwgmon how people manage their 'digital lives'.

Ticer's modular course for librarians and publishers, "Digital Libraries à la Carte," will be held at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, August, 25-29 2008. Details at www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/08carte/.

Internet2 IDEA Awards were presented at Internet2's 2008 Spring Member Meeting held in Arlington, Virginia on April 22, 2008. Details are available at www.internet2.edu/idea/.

MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES:

SAVE THE DATES:
2008 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 8-9, 2008
2009 Spring Task Force Meeting, Minneapolis, MN -- April 6-7, 2009
2009 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 14-15

JISC/CNI Conference - Belfast - Registration Open: The 7th international meeting, Transforming the User Experience, will be held in Belfast on July 10-11, 2008. Further information about the meeting is available at www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2008/.

Call for Papers: The 4th International Digital Curation Conference, "Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?" will be held on December 1-3, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Closing date for submissions: July 25, 2008. Full details available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008.

European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2008: The 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries will be held Sept. 14-19, 2008 in Aarhus, Denmark. See www.ecdl2008.org.

iPRES Conference 2008: The Fifth International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held in London, England, September 29-30, 2008. Information is available at www.bl.uk/ipres2008.

NEW & NOTEWORTHY:

The full report of the Section 108 Copyright Study Group and an executive summary are linked from the group's page at www.section108.gov/.

The Association of College & Research Libraries and the Library Administration and Management Association have jointly produced a Guide for Planning Higher Education Library Spaces: wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/ACRL/LAMA_Guide_for_Architects.

Report on Extremely Large Database Workshop at SLAC, Oct 2007: www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb07.

The University as Publisher: Summary of a Meeting Held at UC Berkeley on November 1, 2007: cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/university_publisher.pdf.

The Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (journalofelectronicpublishing.org) covers themes connecting cyberinfrastructure, scholarship and scholarly communication.