DSpace 1.5.2 Stable has been released.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

This release is primarily a bug fix release incorporating numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

We want to highlight the following additions:

• SWORD module/version 1.3.1 supporting the sword standard version 1.3
• cocoon upgraded to 2.2
• fix for the UTF-8 issues with the XMLUI
• new authentication methods: Hierarchical LDAP and Shibboleth
• full update translations: German, Italian for both XMLUI and JSPUI and Ukrainian for JSPUI
• new translations for 1.5.x: Greek and Thai
• graceful resolver for urn in the item page for the JSPUI

The Indiana University Digital Library Program has released the IN Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool.

Here's an excerpt from the tool's page:

The IN Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool is an open source tool developed by the Indiana University Digital Library Program with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as part of the IN Harmony: Sheet Music From Indiana project. This tool has been designed to assist libraries, archives, museums, and individual collectors describe their sheet music collections in a robust and standards-based way. This is a production system of the Indiana University Digital Library Program and was used to catalog more than 10,000 pieces of sheet music for the IN Harmony project.

The tool collects descriptive metadata about sheet music and exports it in the MODS, simple Dublin Core, and OAI-PMH Static Repository formats.

The Public Knowledge Project has released Open Journal Systems 2.2.3.

The Internet Archive has released Flip Book, a beta version open source e-book reader.

You can see it in action at any book in the system. Here's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

It is not clear how to access the Flip Book source or executable.

Presentations from the Code4Lib 2009 meeting are now available. (Thanks to Tennant: Digital Libraries.)

Here's a quick selection:

• LibX 2.0
• Like a Can Opener for Your Data Silo: Simple Access through AtomPub and Jangle
• LuSql: (Quickly and easily) Getting your data from your DBMS into Lucene
• What We Talk about When We Talk about FRBR

Omeka 1.0 alpha has been released.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

This version of Omeka includes:

• New helper functions and updates current helper function;
• Enhancements and fixes bugs throughout the admin panel;
• An autocompleter to the tags field for items;
• Filtering for the users list in the admin;
• An upgrade notification to admin dashboard if you're version of Omeka is older than the latest stable release.
• A "Remember Me" checkbox to the login.
• A global view page and helpers for file metadata, which will allow you to edit file metadata and display it in public themes.

The California Digital Library has released a self-guided tutorial for its eXtensible Text Framework (XTF).

Here's an excerpt from the press release:

XTF is an open source, highly customizable piece of software supporting the search, browse, and display of heterogeneous digital content and offering efficient and practical methods for creating customized end-user interfaces for distinct digital collections. The tutorial provides guidance for implementing and customizing XTF, from core functionality to overall look and feel. . . .

The tutorial comes with a complete XTF package that is ready to run when uncompressed; no other installation is required. It contains nine modules spanning the most powerful and popular features, including how to:

• Add new content
• Change metadata
• Change logo and colors
• Increase significance of titles in ranking hits
• Customize and enable default status of advanced search
• Change fields displayed in search results
• Enable structural searching
• Create a hierarchical facet
• Change footnote behavior

The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project has released a six-part webcast that describes the software, which is expected to be released by the end of the month.

Here's an excerpt from the project home page that describes it:

The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project is working to design and develop a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to library users. XC will provide easy access to all resources (both digital and physical collections) across a variety of databases, metadata schemas and standards, and will enable library content to be revealed through other services that libraries may already be using, such as content management systems and learning management systems. XC will also make library collections more web-accessible by revealing them through web search engines.

The University of Rochester has released version alpha 0.1 of its new open source institutional repository system, IR Plus. A test version of the system is available, and a discussion group has been established on Google.

Here are the documentation links:

• Quick overview
• Installation manual
• Administration manual
• User manual

Scriblio 2.7 has been released.

Here's an excerpt from "Scriblio 2.7 Released":

Scriblio is an open source WordPress plugin that adds the ability to search, browse, and create structured data to the popular blog/content management platform. And WordPress adds great ease of use, permalinks, comments/trackbacks/pingbacks, and other social and web-centric features to that structured data. But that’s not news. The news is that Scriblio now has an internal data model that supports much more sophisticated uses. . . Whereas previous versions of Scriblio were mostly just display and social interaction interfaces to data that’s created or managed elsewhere, this new version supports soup to nuts creation and management of collections.

The Center for History and New Media has released Zotero 1.5 Beta.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Zotero 1.5 Features

• Automatic synchronization of collections across multiple computers. For example, sync your PC at work with your Mac laptop and your Linux desktop at home.
• Free automatic backup of your library data at Zotero.org.
• Automatic synchronization of your attachment files to a server of your choice (e.g. iDisk, Jungle Disk, or university-provided web storage).
• Recover recently deleted items with Zotero’s trash can.
• Rich-text notes
• New style manager allowing you to add and delete CSLs and legacy style formats
• Automatic detection of PDF metadata (author, title, etc.)
• Automatic detection and support for proxy servers

The Public Knowledge Project has released Open Archives Harvester, an open source OAI-PMH harvester.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

This is a major rewrite of numerous parts of the Harvester code, including metadata storage and indexing. It increases indexing flexibility to support plugin-based indexing, including Lucene/SOLR support. It also adds OAI Data Provider support, including the potential to convert between metadata formats (currently from various formats into Dublin Core).