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Washington, DC  The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is seeking proposals for presentations and workshops for the 2013 General Assembly. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 22, 2013.

From 
program co-chairs:
 Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced!

If you are traveling to code4lib join friends and colleagues at fedora4lib–the Fedora house in Chicago

An informal global library information technology community has come together at the code4lib conference since 2005 to "share approaches, techniques, and code across institutional and project divides". This year's event will be held Feb. 11-14, 2013 in Chicagp. IL (http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/).

From the DSpace Committers

Hello DSpace Community,

A new bug-fix release of DSpace 3 available: DSpace 3.1

This bug fix release addresses a number of issues that were found to affect DSpace 3.0. These issues include:

• problems running DSpace 3.0 on Oracle
• several bug fixes to the new OAI interface (introduced in 3.0)
• fixed "More like this" feature (introduced in 3.0)
• minor XMLUI Discovery fixes
• several other minor issues

From Ithaka S+R

Pretoria, South Africa  More than one thousand years ago the thriving Iron Age pre-colonial state of Mapungubwe existed where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers came together in an area that would later become the Kingdom of Zimbabwe. The Mapungubwe archaeological site is culturally meaningful because it provides evidence of southern Africa’s prehistory.

Winchester, MA  Though unafilliated with the successful Public Library of Science (PLOS), the new Open Library of Humanities (OLH) initiative has been inspired by the PLOS open megajournal model–if the sciences can do it why not the humanities and social sciences? The OHL mission is to provide a platform for Open Access publishing that is:

• Reputable and respected through rigorous peer review

From Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown, PEI Canada  The Islandora team is pleased to report that plans for the upcoming Islandora Camp Europe are coming along nicely. With the new Islandora 6 and 7 releases due in the coming weeks we are sure to have a lot to talk about when we gather in March. The current agenda is available:

http://europe.islandora.ca/program/session-schedule

Washington, DC  Join NISO for the February 13 webinar on Preservation Metadata to hear viewpoints and updates from industry leaders on theory and practice.

Webinar: Metadata for Preservation:
A Digital Object's Best Friend
Date: February 13, 2013
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (EST)

Mountain View, CA  On February 12 8:30am PT  "Digital Preservation in Theory and Practice" PASIG will offer the first in a series of monthly webinars aimed at sharing PASIG content and insights beyond the annual meeting (the next meeting will be held May 22-24 in Washington, DC).