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DuraSpace Incubator to help VIVO sustain technologies and communities for linking information about researchers and research 

From Rebecca Fairbairn, Public Relations Manager, BioMed Central

London, UK BGI, the world’s largest genomics institute, and BioMed Central, a leader in scientific data sharing, aim to revolutionize science publishing with the launch of GigaScience, a new open access, open data journal with a scope that embraces all life science research that generates ‘big data’.

Ithaca, NY Recordings of DuraCloud monthly "Brown Bag" web events are available to familiarize customers and the general public with the nuts and bolts of how to use DuraCloud. Each 30-minute demonstration and/or discussion of new features, common use cases, and frequently asked questions is followed by an informal question and answer session. Since the DuraCloud Brown Bag Series was launched earlier this year topics have included (click to view recordings):

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Edinburgh, Scotland The Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the Eighth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2013) will take place on Prince Edward Island in July of 2013. This will mark the first time that Open Repositories has been held in Canada.

The Host Organising Committee for OR2013 add:

The University of Prince Edward Island, and DiscoveryGarden are pleased to announce that Prince Edward Island has been selected as the location for Open Repositories 2013!

From Stuart Macdonald & William Nixon on behalf of OR2012 Organising Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland As we count down to the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) on 9-13 July, 2012 we are pleased to announce that we have well in excess of 300 delegates registered for OR2012!

From Tim Donohue on behalf of the DSpace Committers Team

Ithaca, NY The DSpace Committers Team is delighted to announce a new member to the group: Ivan Masár, also known as "helix84". Please join us in welcoming him!

From Todd Sedmak, Communications Manager, Internet2

Ann Arbor, MI Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu/) released today the following statement regarding the official launch of US Ignite (http://us-ignite.org/) by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.

A recording of “Describing Audio & Video Digital Media with Metadata” presented by Kara Van Malssen and Chris Beer is now available: http://duraspace.org/web_seminars. This web seminar is part of the Hot Topics DuraSpace Community Webinar Series “All About Audio and Video Content in Repositories,” curated by Karen Cariani, WGBH Boston.

From Martha Anderson, NDIIPP, Library of Congress

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce the launch of the Digital Preservation Awards 2012.

The application pack is available online at: http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/awards