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Ithaca, NY Along with a some new features the release team delivered a significant bit of under-the-hood retooling with the release of Fedora 3.6. The retooling consists of:

• upgrading the web services framework, and
• completing the migration to a modern configuration and management framework (aka Spring).

Increased standards support and expanded Spring-based configuration in Fedora 3.6

From Andrea Goethals, Digital Preservation and Repository Services Manager Harvard Library, on behalf of the Standards and Practices Working Group, National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)

Ithaca, NY According to Wikipedia Twitter has 500 million users and sees 340 million tweets per day. This is just one indicator that people and organizations are now sharing and accessing every kind of news and information in 140 characters, via YouTube and, or through one or more customized social media pipes on many types of devices. How do your web site stats look these days?

Bloomington, IN The Variations on Video project will transition to a new name: the Avalon Media System. This Indiana University and Northwestern University project aims to develop an open source software system to enable academic libraries and archives to easily provide online access to their video and audio collections.

Ithaca, NY Institutions with IT departments offer services and storage based on infrastructure that has been accumulated over time. Limitations of in-house services combined with evolving data curation, management and cost requirements, have made the flexibility of cloud computing and storage options appealing.

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):

• Permissions and access controls

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!