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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.

Ithaca, NY If you are traveling to the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) in Austin, Texas next week please stop by the DuraSpace table where we will be conducting ongoing DuraCloud demonstrations. We look forward to seeing members of our open source communities in celebration of another great year.

Along with conference presentations from many DSpace and Fedora community members, these DuraSpace-related events may be of interest:

From the Repository Fringe Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Information Services are delighted to announce that the 4th Annual Repository Fringe event will be held in the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh on August 3-5, 2011. Further sponsors and supporters will be announced.

Austin, TX More information about the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) is now available online including the main conference preliminary program,  pre-conference program and Developer Challenge. OR11 will be held June 6 - June 11 at the AT&T Center in Austin, Texas. Register here: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main/schedConf/registration.

From Kristi Holmes, Bioinformaticist at Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine

From Matthias Razum, Head ePublishing & eScience Development & Applied Research, FIZ Karlsruhe

Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany  The Max Planck Digital Library and FIZ Karlsruhe cordially invite you to participate in the eSciDoc Days 2011 to be held on Wednesday, October 26, and Thursday, October 27, at Tagungsstaette Harnack-House in Berlin, Germany.

From Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Islandora Project/Repository Manager, University of Prince Edward Island

Ithaca, NY This month's issue highlights new web site launches for DuraCloud and DuraSpace; the 2011 Sponsorship Campaign and the DuraSpace Google Summer of Code project line-up along with news and information from the DSpace, Fedora and DuraCloud projects and communities.

http://137.149.200.17/duraspacedigestv3i4.php