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From Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud (http://DuraCloud.org) team will host the second in a new series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud features NEXT Wednesday, March 28 at 12:30pm ET. Wednesday's brown bag session will detail the media streaming capabilities in DuraCloud and how you can use them to embed media files into your own applications.

From Jared Lyle, ICPSR, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI  What kinds of curation services might help prepare data for deposit in digital repositories?  What kind of tools might ICPSR provide to local repositories to support local data processing?  We would like to hear your ideas.
 

From Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

From Ian Dolphin, Executive Director, Sakai Foundation and  Patty Gertz, Interim Executive Director, Jasig

Something special is happening in Atlanta, June 10-15. Jasig and Sakai, two of the pioneers of open source software in higher education, are pooling resources to provide a better home for innovation. The Jasig-Sakai Conference will showcase the adoption and growth of software to support advances in learning, teaching and research, together with the infrastructure that enables it.

Ithaca, NY The recent "sold-out" Code{4}Lib Conference was hosted by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and the University of Washington Libraries February 6-9, 2012. Slides are available for two Hydra project presentations of note.

The March KnowledgeBase drawing is on!

Contribute to the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase get a chance at a $100 Amazon gift card! Yep, that's right, the drawing has increased this month to $100!

From Stuart Macdonald, Associate Data Librarian, EDINA, on behalf of OR2012 Host Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, UK The online submissions system for OR12 is live at: http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/submissions/

Ithaca, NY Please join Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer of DuraSpace and Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer of DuraSpace for an EDUCAUSE Live! presentation about how the DuraCloud open source solution can help higher education manage and persist content in the cloud working with multiple cloud providers, both commercial and noncommercial.

WEB SEMINAR-DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education
WHEN-February 29, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. ET
PRESENTERS-Michele Kimpton, Jonathan Markow