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The Journal of Digital Information has published its first issue of 2012 (Volume 13, Number 1). This issue is a special issue with papers invited from the 6^th International Conference on Open Repositories, held in Austin, Texas.

The following papers are included in this issue:

• DAR: A Modern Institutional Repository with a Scalability Twist by Youssef Mikhail, Noha Adly, Magdy Nagi
• Document Viewers for Non-Born-Digital Files in DSpace by Elias Tzoc
• Repository as a Service (RaaS) by Stuart Lewis, Kim Shepherd, Yin Yin Latt, Andrea Schweer, Adam Field
• Chempound – a Web 2.0-inspired repository for physical science data by Sam Adams, Peter Murray-Rust
• Building a Community of Curatorial Practice at Penn State: A Case Study by Patricia Hswe, Michael J. Giarlo, Michelle Belden, Kevin Clair, Daniel Coughlin, Linda Klimczyk
• REDDNET and Digital Preservation in the Open Cloud: Research at Texas Tech University Libraries on Long-Term Archival Storage by James Brewer, Tracy Popp, Joy Perrin
• CLIF: Moving repositories upstream in the content lifecycle by Simon Waddington, Richard Green, Chris Awre
• Kindura: Repository services for researchers based on hybrid clouds by Simon Waddington, Jun Zhang, Gareth Knight, Mark Hedges, Jens Jensen, Roger Downing
• Beyond The Low Hanging Fruit: Data Services and Archiving at the University of New Mexico by Robert Olendorf, Steve Koch
• Building the Hydra Together: Enhancing Repository Provision through Multi-Institution Collaboration by Chris Awre, Tom Cramer
• Cloud as Infrastructure at the Texas Digital Library by Peter Nuernberg, John Leggett, Mark McFarland
• Sheer Curation of Experiments: Data, Process, Provenance by Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke, Stella Fabiane, Gareth Knight, Eric Liao
• FISHNet: encouraging data sharing and reuse in the freshwater science community by Mark Hedges, Mike Haft, Gareth Knight
• Preserving and delivering audiovisual content integrating Fedora Commons and MediaMosa by Matteo Bertazzo, Angela Di Iorio
• Visualizing Research Data Records for their Better Management by Alexander Ball, Mansur Darlington, Thomas Howard, Chris McMahon, Steve Culley

We would like to express our gratitude to Tom Cramer of Stanford University Libraries for acting as editor for this special issue, and to all the authors who made the issue possible.

The Journal of Digital Information has published it’s first issue for 2011, Volume 12, Number 3. The issue contains four articles covering a range of topics included in JoDI’s topical themes.

Journal of Digital Information
Volume 12, Number 3 – July  2011

• Recruiting Content for the Institutional Repository: The Barriers Exceed the Benefits
  by Denise Troll Covey
• Intermediary schemas for complex XML applications: an example from research information management
  by Richard Gartner
• Redocumenting computer-mediated activity from its traces: a model-based approach for narrative construction
  by Leila Yahiaoui, Yannick Prié, Zizette Boufaida, Pierre-Antoine Champin
• Digital Whistleblowing in Restricted Environments
  by Graeme Baxter Bell

As new editor-in-chief, I want to welcome you to the JoDI Blog. Over the next day or so we will be publishing a new issue (12.3) of JoDI. With this publication we will be marking a couple of important transitions. The first, and more perfunctory, is the official transition to a new editor-in-chief. As editor-in-chief, I will use this blog to make announcements about upcoming issues, new themes and section editors, as well as calling attention to activities and publications that may be of extraordinary interest to JoDI readers. During the next few months we will be talking with many of you about ideas for new themes and will report the results of those conversations on this blog.

The second, and more significant transition that we are marking is not just John’s departure from his role as JoDI EIC, but, his retirement from Texas A&M University. After many years of service as a faculty member, researcher, advisor, mentor and administrator, John will be moving on. So, my first order of business is to acknowledge that important transition and, on behalf of the current and past editors and authors that have made JoDI what it has become, to say thank you to John for his years of service to JoDI and to the community of researchers and scholars among whom he has worked for decades.

Finally, a note about the Open Repositories 2011 Special Issue. We have invited Tom Cramer, director of Stanford University’s digital library and chair of the OR2011 Program Committee, to edit this issue, and the response to his call for papers has been very well received.

I look forward to serving in my new role and welcome your ideas, conversations, comments and suggestions about how we can continue to provide a high quality journal for our readers and authors around the world.

Mark McFarland
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Digital Library

The Journal of Digital Information has published a special issue from Open Repositories 2010 (volume 12, number 2) issue. This issue is a Special Issue with papers invited from Open Repositories 2010 conference in held in Madrid, Spain. The following papers are included in this issue:

Journal of Digital Information
Volume 12, Number 2 – May 2011

• Curation Micro-Services: A Pipeline Metaphor for Repositories
  by Stephen Abrams, Patricia Cruse, John Kunze, David Minor
• Building a DDC-annotated Corpus from OAI Metadata
  by Mathias Lösch, Ulli Waltinger, Wolfram Horstmann, Alexander Mehler
• Preserving repository content: practical tools for repository managers
  by Miggie Pickton, Debra Morris, Stephanie Meece, Simon Coles, Steve Hitchcock
• Archival description in OAI-ORE
  by Deborah Kaplan, Anne Sauer, Eliot Wilczek
• Diversity and Interoperability of Repositories in a Grid Curation Environment
  by Andreas Aschenbrenner, Harry Enke, Thomas Fischer, Jens Ludwig
• Institutional Repositories, Long Term Preservation and the changing nature of Scholarly Publications
  by Paul Doorenbosch, Barbara Sierman

The Journal of Digital Information has published it’s first issue for 2011, Volume 12, Number 1. The issue contains four articles covering a range of topics included in JoDI’s topical themes.

Journal of Digital Information
Volume 12, Number 1 – January  2011

• Making the Semantic Web usable: interface principles to empower the layperson
  by Stephen Davies, Chris Donaher, Jesse Hatfield, Jessica Zeitz
• Rich Internet Publications: “Show What You Tell”
  by Leen Breure, Hans Voorbij, Maarten Hoogerwerf
• Generic Adaptation Framework: a Process-Oriented Perspective
  by Evgeny Knutov, Paul De Bra, Mykola Pechenizkiy
• Engineering an Open Web Syndication Interchange with Discovery and Recommender Capabilities
  by Adrian O’Riordan, Aliver O’Mahony

The Journal of Digital Information has just published its first issue of 2010 (volume 11, number 1) issue. This issue is a Special Issue with papers invited from Open Repositories 2009 conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

The following papers are included in this issue:

Journal of Digital Information
Volume 11, number 1 – March 2010

• Towards an Open Repository Environment
  by Andreas Aschenbrenner, Tobias Blanke, Marc W. Kuster
• Policy-based Distributed Data Management Systems
  by Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, Mike Wan, Wayne Schroeder
• Restoring Trust Relationships within the Framework of Collaborative Digital Preservation Federations
  by Robert H. McDonald, Tyler O. Walters
• Self-Assessment of a Long-Term Archive for Interdisciplinary Scientific Data as a Trustworthy Digital Repository
  by Robert R. Downs, Robert S. Chen
• AgEcon Search: A case study on the differences between operating a subject repository and an institutional repository
  by Julia Kelly, Louise Letnes
• Adding OAI -ORE Support to Repository Platforms
  by Alexey Maslov, James Creel, Adam Mikeal, Scott Phillips, John Leggett, Mark McFarland
• Author Identifiers in Scholarly Repositories
  by Simeon Warner
• Authoring, Editing and Visualizing Compound Objects for Literary Scholarship
  by Anna Gerber, Jane Hunter
• ICE-Theorem – End to end semantically aware eResearch infrastructure for theses
  by Peter Sefton, Jim Downing

As a final note, we would like to express our gratitude to John Howard for acting as editor for this special issue, and to all the authors for making this special issue possible.

Welcome to the blog for the Journal of Digital Information.  As the new editor-in-chief, I am hoping to use this blog to generate discussion about the articles that appear in JoDI and other issues of interest to our readers.  Please join in and help us create a vibrant community.

We will be retiring some older themes and adding new themes and new editors over the course of the next year or so.  Please feel free to suggest new themes and/or special topics that would be of interest to you.  The current special issue on Information Access to Cultural Heritage has been well-received and I am looking forward to our special issue on Open Repositories this spring.

Recently, we have added thematic areas of Information Discovery with Gene Golovchinsky as editor and Visual Interfaces with Frank Shipman as editor.  We have also added Dion Goh as an additional editor in the area of Digital Libraries.  I expect these new editors will be starting threads in the blog about their areas sometime soon.

JoDI is one of the older peer-reviewed digital journals around and I would like to see it continue as a high quality journal in the broad area of Digital Information.  As many of you know, JoDI was named a Tier A academic journal by the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE).  This is a very positive achievement and I would like to thank all prior authors and editors for their hard work over the last 14 years!

So, what’s on your mind?