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From Adam Soroka, the University of Virginia Library, on behalf of the Fedora repository committers

Charlottesville, VA  The Fedora repository committers have cut a new release: 3.6.2. It's a small set of changes primarily consisting of fixes to recently discovered bugs. Please find release notes here:

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA36/Fedora+Repository+3.6.2+Release+Notes

From Karen Meijer-Kline, Communications and Member Services Officer, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Simon Fraser University Library

Burnaby, BC, Canada  The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are pleased to announce the Fourth International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, which will be held from August 19 - 21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Winchester, MA  A recording of the Nov. 15, 2012 "Hydra Technical Deep Dive" question and answer session with Matt Zumwalt is available at http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.

Additionally, below are some useful links from today's session:

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce an agreement with Registered Service Provider MediaShelf (http://yourmediashelf.com/) to hire Edwin Shin (http://yourmediashelf.com/who-we-are/edwin-shin/) on an interim basis as Fedora Project Lead.  Eddie will work with DuraSpace and a committee of stakeholders who recently got together to define a software project for making substantial improvements to Fedora through mid-year.

Winchester, MA  A recording and presentation slides of the Nov.

Winchester, MA DuraSpace announced today that their organization has been awarded a 2-year, $861,000 grant from The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The grant is in support of extending the DuraCloud services (http://www.duracloud.org) an online cloud based service, for the long term preservation and stewardship of research and other scholarly content.

Columbus, Ohio  The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group invites proposals for presentations at its meeting at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, January 27th from 8:30 to 10:00 am.
 
Presentations focusing on current topics and practices that relate to the role of preservation metadata in digital preservation are preferred. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
 
• Tools and workflows for capturing preservation metadata
• Tools and strategies for implementing preservation metadata

From Anthi Katsirikou, QQML Conference co-chair

Rome, Italy  The 5th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) will be held at "La Sapienza" University, in Rome June 4-7, 2013. Proceedings will focus on new methodological developments and practical applications for libraries.

Information about how to submit to the QQML Conference 2013 may be found here: http://www.isast.org.