Data curation

Edinburgh, Scotland The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories will take place July 9-13, 2012. The OR2012 Programme Committee has announced that the draft program is now available at: https://www.conftool.net/or2012/sessions.php

Ithaca, NY The World Bank recently announced adoption of an Open Access policy thereby joining institutions, organizations and advocates around the world who are making research outputs broadly accessible. The policy will go into effect on July 1, 2012.

From Stuart Macdonald on behalf of OR2012 Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, UK Registration for OR2012 workshops on Monday July 9 and Tuesday July 10 is now open and available at www.or2012.eventbrite.com. Please note that the workshops are free but you will need the EDN number from your receipt from ePay registration system (http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/registration/) to register for the workshops.

From Marianne Smith, Director, Internet2

Washington, DC The Call for Participation for the Fall 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting is now open! This includes calls for Proposals, Working Meetings, and Sponsors.

Ithaca, NY On your next digital break click here to be inspired: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/collections/.

Ithaca, NY Those of us who have navigated through mazes of menu options online or on the phone to find information would agree that it's great when you are fortunate enough to find a real person waiting on the other end of a communcation to answer questions.

Ithaca, NY The Third Annual VIVO Conference will be held in Miami, Florida August 22-24, 2012 to help promote scholarly collaboration and research discovery.

http://vivoweb.org/conference2012

About VIVO

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

On April 24, 2012 the Hydra developers "who make Hydra happen" released Active Fedora 4.0.0 and HydraHead 4.0.0

The gems are at:

https://rubygems.org/gems/active-fedora/versions/4.0.0
https://rubygems.org/gems/hydra-head/versions/4.0.0

and supporting libraries at:

From USETDA 2012 Conference Organizing Committee and USETDA Board of Directors