<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Dear Michele Kimpton,</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">It is a good initiative but my suggestion is that to prepare a tutorial sheet and put it on the dsapce.org. All community will be benefited globally. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">with kind regards</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Dr. Sanajy Kataria</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Email: <A href="mailto:skataria.jiitu@gmail.com">skataria.jiitu@gmail.com</A>, <A href="mailto:sanjay.kataria@jiit.ac.in">sanjay.kataria@jiit.ac.in</A> <BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Michele Kimpton <michele@dspace.org><BR>To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general@mit.edu<BR>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 9:39:19 PM<BR>Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 training<BR><BR>Dear members of the community,<BR><BR>At the upcoming JASIG conference in Minneapolis April 27-April 30, <BR>Mark Diggory will be giving training for DSpace users (sys admins and <BR>developers) on how to upgrade your DSpace instance from 1.4 to 1.5 and <BR>how to develop your site using Manakin. Mark is a key contributor in <BR>the DSpace community, a DSpace system manager from MIT and a committer <BR>in the DSpace community. He was instrumental in launching 1.5 and <BR>moving DSpace onto Maven.<BR><BR>The training will take place on Sunday April 27th, prior to the
<BR>conference. The cost is $150 per seminar if you are not a JASIG <BR>member. You can find out more at <A href="http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/seminars.html" target=_blank>http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/seminars.html</A> <BR>.<BR><BR>If you choose to stay for the conference there are several DSpace <BR>presentations at JASIG as well as DLF conference ( in Minneapolis the <BR>same days). Some interesting presentations at JASIG are:<BR><BR>Monday-<BR>Semantic web activities in higher education- this will include some of <BR>the work done by the SIMILE team, which has created tools that can be <BR>used with DSpace<BR>Engaging the user community- I am moderating a panel that will include <BR>key leaders from 3 open source projects. they will discuss what <BR>tools, process and techniques they use to ensure all the community has <BR>a voice in the open source
development process.<BR>NITLE-DSpace initiatives for small colleges- will be talking about the <BR>development of the DSpace community within the NITLE membership <BR>organization<BR>Google web toolkit- This may be of interest to DSpace users as we <BR>( the community) looks at the possibility of integrating the google <BR>toolkit into DSpace<BR><BR>Tuesday-<BR>If we build it will they come? Part Deux- Cornell University will be <BR>giving an update on how they have overcome some of the hurdles <BR>populating their DSpace repository<BR>Personal repository space vs. the personal portal-I hot topic right <BR>now, will be interesting to hear what Chris Awre from U of Hull has to <BR>say even if it is a Fedora repository, maybe we can learn<BR>Shibboleth 2.0- an overview for developers- if you are looking at <BR>shibboleth for your authentication system this could be of interest.<BR><BR>Wednesday-<BR>AT
DLF 9-10:30<BR>DSpace Foundation- strategy and roadmap for 08/09 including the new <BR>architecture work- if you did not hear my presentation at OR2008- I <BR>will be giving an abridged version of the talk at DLF<BR>National Library of Medicine- Experiment to investigate the <BR>scalability of a DSpace based archive. Apparently NLM has run over <BR>one million items through the DSpace system with success.<BR><BR>You can find a full list of both programs at:<BR><BR><A href="http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html" target=_blank>http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html</A><BR><A href="http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2008/index.htm" target=_blank>http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2008/index.htm</A><BR><BR>If you are a DLF member, you can attend JASIG for one day of the <BR>conference by paying $150 for the day. You will see this option on <BR>the online registration, or
you can pay the day you show up.<BR><BR>Michele Kimpton<BR>DSpace Executive Director<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Dspace-general mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Dspace-general@mit.edu" ymailto="mailto:Dspace-general@mit.edu">Dspace-general@mit.edu</A><BR><A href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general" target=_blank>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general</A><BR></DIV>
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