Data curation

Goettingen, Germany Following the first successful Supporting the Digital Humanities (SDH) Conference in Vienna in 2010, the CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/external/) and DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) initiatives have decided to jointly organize the second SDH conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 17-18 in Copenhagen. The conference venue will be at the University of Copenhagen, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH.

Originally planned as a library, the University of Texas at Austin's tower is now used primarily as administrative offices. The 27-floor structure was completed in 1937.

From Michael J, Giarlo, The Pennsylvania State University

Those of you who have been following the HBO series, GAME OF THRONES, are probably familiar with the phrase, "Winter is coming."  Well, CURATEcamp is coming!  And without monstrous wolves, ice zombies, and scheming knights. CURATEcamp is a series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation.

Slots for #CURATEcamp 2011 (August 15-16, Stanford Univ., $125 for registration/lodging/meals) are starting to fill up.

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

Redwood City, CA I would like to take this opportunity to announce that Stanford's Tom Cramer will now take the helm of the PASIG and will help guide it into an independent organization status. I will continue to be formally involved, as will Mike Keller, and continuing and new steering committee members (TBD). Expect to see a posting from Tom on the PASIG website in the next several days.

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Austin, TX Bright sun outside and and cool temperatures inside greeted more than 30 participants in the Hydra Workshop offered by Matt Zumwalt, Media Shelf, with help from his friends, on June 7, 2011 in Austin as part of OR11 pre-conference events.

 With thanks to Mark Leggott for reporting these updates.

The aim of the POCOS (Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia) project is to deliver a series of three symposia at locations across the United Kingdom at which global thought-leaders in research into the Preservation of Complex Objects will share and thereby extend the body of knowledge on this topic.

http://www.pocos.org/

The new issue of EDUCAUSE Review is now available on line: http://www.educause.edu/er. This issue includes:

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