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OpenCollection version 0.54-3 has been released.

Here's an excerpt from the Overview page:

OpenCollection is a full-featured collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections. It is designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have complex cataloguing requirements and require support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats. Unlike most other collections management applications, OpenCollection is completely web-based. All cataloging, search and administrative functions are accessed using common web-browser software, untying users from specific operating systems and making cataloguing by distributed teams and online access to collections information simple, efficient and inexpensive.

See the Features page for more details about this open source software.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released Switzerland, an open source software tool for testing your ISP's net neutrality.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Part of EFF's "Test your ISP" project, Switzerland is an open source, command-line software tool designed to detect the modification or injection of packets of data by ISPs. Switzerland detects changes made by software tools believed to be in use by ISPs such as Sandvine and AudibleMagic, advertising systems like FairEagle, and various censorship systems. Although currently intended for use by technically sophisticated Internet users, development plans aim to make the tool increasingly easy to use.

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has released the Zotero 1.5 Sync Preview.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement that describes its features:

• Automatic synchronization of collections among multiple computers. . . .
• Free automatic backup of your library data on Zotero’s servers.
• Support for thousands of existing Endnote® export styles. . . .
• A new style manager allowing you to add and delete CSLs and legacy style formats.
• Preliminary support for local sharing of collections through ZeroConf on OS X. Other platforms and full support to come with the final release of Zotero 1.5.

See the documentation for additional details.

The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services at the University of Strathclyde has released SRU Open Search, an open source customizable interface for displaying SRU-formatted XML.

Here are some features selected from a more comprehensive list:

• Bookmarkable pages, so you can share a page of results via email
• Share items via social bookmarking sites (Delicious, Digg, Google)
• Featured audio highlighting—inline mp3 player via flash
• Featured content highlighting . . .
• Visualisation of search terms via pie chart, tag cloud & tree map . . .
• Portable version of search so users can add to their own site
• Browser search plugin for Firefox & Internet Explorer (inc Auto Suggest)

Video presentations from the 2008 code4lib conference are now available from the Internet Archive.

Presentations from VALE’s Next Generation Academic Library System Symposium are now available.

Omeka 0.9.1 has been released. This recommended upgrade fixes over 20 bugs. (See "Omeka 0.9.0 Released: Software for Digital Collections and Exhibits" for a description of Omeka.)

Read more about it at "Omeka 0.9.1 Is Available."

The National Science Digital Library NCore team has released three applications:

• Generic, open source version of NSDL Search
• MediaWiki extensions that are used to support the NSDL Wiki
• WordPress MU plug-ins that are used to support Expert Voices

The Institute for the Future of the Book has released version 1.0 of Sophie, an open source tool for creating and reading multimedia networked documents.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment.

Sophie’s goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing to redefine the notion of a book or "academic paper" to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation in dynamic margins.

Read more about Sophie at "Sophie Project Gets $1 Million from Macarthur Foundation," the Sophie documentation, and the Sophie tutorials.