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Ithaca, NY State-of-the-art facilities and security systems are important aspects of ensuring that an organization’s critical data is preserved and protected. Key digital information can include operational documents such as design and manufacturing specifications, proprietary content, personnel records and more. What if the weather does not cooperate? Evidence of severe and random weather events continue to mount from the Tsunami in Japan earlier this year to the effects of multiple devasting storms in the Northeast United States this fall.

Ithaca, NY On November 16, 2011 geographic and geospatial information systems (GIS) are recognized as key aspects of our scientific, scholarly, and cultural heritage by more than 80 countries on "GIS Day." This global event is sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Esri.

http://www.gisday.com/

Ithaca, NY DSpace 1.8, the latest version of the popular turnkey open source institutional repository application is now available with the new iTunes U Media RSS feed.

With CloudSync Fedora repositories can take advantage of DuraCloud—the only managed software service that lets organizations archive content across more than one cloud provider.

Ithaca, NY Fedora CloudSync is a new open source web-based utility for backing up and restoring Fedora content in DuraCloud that also syncs content between multiple Fedora repositories. It supports on-demand backups of any content in a Fedora repository.

Ithaca, NY The next meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be held Jan. 11-13 in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

Meeting web site: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/
Registration (early registration ends on November 30): http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/registration/

Edinburgh, Scotland The University of Edinburgh Information Services, EDINA, and the Digital Curation Centre are delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh has been selected to host the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) July 9-13th July, 2012.

The call for proposals will be available from the conference web site soon: or2012.ed.ac.uk

Washington, DC Please join SPARC on November 15 for a review of Open Access Week 2011. Participants worldwide will come together for an online discussion to share successes, challenges, and great ideas taken from this year's celebration.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
1:00 – 2:00PM Eastern

Washington, DC The 2012 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) will focus on the interconnected issues around "#sharing #linking #using #preserving." The Conference will be hosted by The George Washington University in Washington, DC June 10-14, 2012.

Goettingen, Germany The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website at: http://www.coar-repositories.org. The website includes fresh content, added Web2.0 functionality, and an updated look and feel.

The site reflects a great deal of input from members. In particular, it includes:

Ithaca, NY Today Robin Taylor, DSpace 1.8.0 release coordinator and information systems developer, University of Edinburgh, announced the release of DSpace 1.8.0 on behalf of all the DSpace developers. DSpace 1.8.0 may be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations:

• SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/