Open access

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

Winchester, MA  Earlier this year the DuraSpace organization launched its third annual Sponsorship Program, encouraging all institutions using the DSpace and Fedora open source technologies to contribute financially to the not for profit entity which provides leadership and support for these platforms. Thanks to our community we raised $417,750 in this year's campaign, with $223,750 coming from the DSpace community, $173,000  from the Fedora community and $21,000 from institutions who do not use either DSpace or Fedora, but who recognize the critical role DuraS

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.

From Birgit Schmidt, OpenAIRE Scientific Manager, on behalf of the OpenAIRE team

Göttingen, Germany  On November 21-22 2012 Göttingen State and University Library will host the OpenAIRE Conference to present the results of the OpenAIRE project which supports the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Open Access Pilot.

OpenAIRE web site: http://www.openaire.eu/
Register here: http://www.openaire.eu/en/conference2012