meetings

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada Registration is now open for this year’s Red Island Repository Institute, September 17-23. We are planning to have 2 streams this year: Digital Humanities and Science Data. Come and learn about cutting-edge repository technologies with like minded folk on beautiful Prince Edward Island at beautiful Dalvay by the Sea, which we have booked exclusively for this event.

More information: http://islandora.ca/riri

From Kim Bui-Burton, Director of Community Services and Director of the Monterey Public Library, City of Monterey

From Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

Washington, DC SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced it will host its first North American meeting on Open Access in 2012. The first of its kind, the event will expand on the successful biennial SPARC Digital Repositories meeting.

Save the date: Kansas City, March 11-13, 2012

Winchester, MA If you plan to travel to the Library of Congress NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting being held in Washington, DC, July 19-21, please take note of two DuraSpace events. A DuraCloud poster and demonstration will be occurring on Tuesday, July 19 beginning at 4:30pm. The following day, Michele Kimpton will discuss sustaining an open source community during the 12:30pm to 1:30pm lunch session.

There will be several DuraSpace team members attending the meeting, so we look forward to talking with you in DC!

From Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

Washington, DC Proposals are now being invited for the Berlin 9 Open Access meeting poster display, which will showcase Open Access initiatives from all corners of the globe.

From Bram Luyten, @mire.

Leuven, Belgium A diverse group of 50 attendees, both developers as well as repository managers, gathered on June 21, 2011 for the @mire and Duraspace -sponsored DSpace Pre-Conference User Group.

Statistics and Repository Exposure

From Michael J, Giarlo, The Pennsylvania State University

Those of you who have been following the HBO series, GAME OF THRONES, are probably familiar with the phrase, "Winter is coming."  Well, CURATEcamp is coming!  And without monstrous wolves, ice zombies, and scheming knights. CURATEcamp is a series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation.

Slots for #CURATEcamp 2011 (August 15-16, Stanford Univ., $125 for registration/lodging/meals) are starting to fill up.

Austin, TX Bright sun outside and and cool temperatures inside greeted more than 30 participants in the Hydra Workshop offered by Matt Zumwalt, Media Shelf, with help from his friends, on June 7, 2011 in Austin as part of OR11 pre-conference events.