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From Birgit Schmidt, OpenAIRE Scientific Manager, on behalf of the OpenAIRE team

Göttingen, Germany  On November 21-22 2012 Göttingen State and University Library will host the OpenAIRE Conference to present the results of the OpenAIRE project which supports the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Open Access Pilot.

OpenAIRE web site: http://www.openaire.eu/
Register here: http://www.openaire.eu/en/conference2012

London, UK  "Strategically Digital" is the theme for the UK Museums Computer Group’s annual Museums on the Web Conference (UKMW12). The Conference will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on November 30, 2012.

More information here: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2012/10/26/programme-for-ukmw12/

Washington, DC  The 2013 NAGARA annual meeting will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 10-13, 2013. NAGARA will not be jointly meeting with any other associations in 2013. This year, the program will feature the following tracks: electronic records preservation, records management, management and policy, and access (social media, description, etc.). Session proposals are being sought.

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the collaboration between DuraSpace and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) cloud services to offer SDSC cloud as part of the DuraCloud SaaS. This offering provides additional preservation services and storage for researchers, students, academics, and industry users.

Winchester, MA  On October 17 Sayeed Choudhury and James L. Mullins presented “E-Research Support at Johns Hopkins University and Purdue University” to participants in the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute. In this webinar, the presenters discuss their progress towards developing a data management plan and service at their institutions. This pre-recorded webinar is part the DuraSpace Hot Topics Community Webinar Series on "Research Data Management Support" curated by E-Science Institute faculty.

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

Winchester, MA  Digitization of fragile film and video resources is the first step towards making sure they are preserved into the future. Yale University's department of Manuscripts and Archives published an example of a video from The Fortunoff Video Archive Holocaust Testimonies, a historic collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, to demonstrate how important it is not only to digitize video resources, but to do it as soon as possible.

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

Each month Carissa Smith, DuraCloud Partner Specialist, conducts a brief webinar discussing a topic of interest to DuraCloud customers and individuals interested in using the cloud for preservation and archiving. September's DuraCloud Brown Bag session detailed ways in which DuraCloud can be used to help solve a variety of use cases. A recording of the session, including the question and answer session can be found online on the DuraCloud YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1LbwDRSaVI