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Washington, DC The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Outreach group wants to collect stories about data loss and preservation. If you've had your heart broken or uplifted by data loss or preservation, please fill out the form at http://j.mp/datastories, and/or please pass on the call for stories below. Distribute widely, as they used to say on listservs! There's no deadline, but we'll probably be taking a look at what we get in November.

The Longsight Group (http://www.longsight.com/), a DuraSpace Registered Service Provider, will be at exhibit booth 836 during the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference next week in Philadelphia (Oct. 18-21).

From OASCIR (Open Access Scientific Institutional Repository) project blog)

Ithaca, NY Details for this Friday's (Oct. 14, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm) DC Region Fedora User Group Meeting are now available. The meeting will be held in:

Room 207
Gelman Library
George Washington University
2130 H St. NW
Washington, DC 20052

Ann Arbor, MI The 2011 Biennial Meeting of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) for more than 160 official representatives will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan October 5-7, 2011.  This year's conference theme is "ICPSR: Building on 50 Years of Leadership," and the meeting will serve as the launch of ICPSR's 50th Year Anniversary celebration.

From Tim Donohue, DuraSpace technical lead and developer

From Richard Green, Consultant to Library & Learning Innovation, University of Hull, managing the Hydrangea in Hull and Hydra (Hull) Projects

Hull, UK The Hydra in Hull team is pleased to announce:

hydra.hull.ac.uk

From Marita La Monica, ITHAKA

New York, NY Ithaka S+R, with funding from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, revisited twelve digital projects first profiled in 2009 to understand the impact of the economic downturn on each project’s sustainability model. Ithaka S+R will be releasing a final report, a toolkit, and offering a series of free webinars in October 2011.