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Community-based solution to help Internet2 members preserve scholarly, scientific and cultural heritage for future generations

Arlington, VA DuraSpace and Internet2 announced today at the Spring 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting that Internet2 members now have automatic access to DuraCloud [http://duracloud.org], a trusted service for archiving and managing content in the cloud featuring one-click creation of many copies, in multiple locations with several providers.

Ithaca, NY Content replication across cloud storage providers is a key factor in meeting higher education and research requirements for taking advantage of the cloud. As Kyle Johnson reported in the April 19 WIRED Cloudline post, "DuraCloud Protects Against Cloud Failures" [link: http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/duracloud/], DuraCloud's one-click access to multiple cloud storage providers can ensure that irreplaceable content is preserved in multiple spaces simultaneously.

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr, Publisher, Digital Scholarship

Houston, Tx Digital Scholarship (http://bit.ly/172mLs) has released the Research Data Curation Bibliography. It includes over 100 selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.

http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

From Bonnie J. Smith, University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries; Maria A. Jankowska, UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library; Marianne A. Buehler,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Las Vegas, Nevada Please accept this invitation to participate in the Library as Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability survey [link: https://academictrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8Ds9A1yindrZLlG].

From Stuart Macdonald, on behalf of the OR12 organizing committee

Edinburgh, UK We are pleased to announce that delegate registration for Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) is now open via the conference electronic payment system [link: http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/registration/]. The early booking rate of £295 ($470) is available until May 21. The Conference will be held July 9-13, 2012 in Edinburgh.

From Marlee Givens, The GALILEO Knowledge Repository, Gerogia Tech Library

Atlanta, GA Please register for the latest iteration of CURATEcamp, a curation technology unconference, to scrutinize all things digital curation in Atlanta May 7-8. At this point, we do not have a particular camp theme, such as microservices or metadata.  Depending on participant interest, topic choices are subject to change!

From Joshua Sternfeld, NEH Division of Preservation and Access, Senior Program Officer

Registration is now open for the Jasig Sakai Joint Conference, to be held June 10-15, 2012 in Atlanta. The theme this year is "Growing Community; Growing Possibilities: Open innovative technologies for learning, teaching, and research".

https://www.concentra-cms.com/c/2012-jasig-sakai

Here is your chance to participate in the coming together of two established open source communities in their inaugural joint conference. There will be something for everyone.

Via Alma Swan, Director, Key Perspectives Ltd. and Director of European Advocacy Programmes for SPARC and Convenor for Enabling Open Scholarship, the organisation of universities promoting the principles of open scholarship in the academic community.