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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

In the fall issue of the Digital Insider: Digital Information News from the State Library of North Carolina, Lisa Gregory highlights how the State Library has adopted DuraCloud to "assist with the ongoing preservation of and access to digital state government publications." The State of North Carolina began using DuraCloud in the summer and has since been able to preserve over 300,000 files in DuraCloud. She notes that getting the content into DuraCloud using several of the provided tools "was simple."

ORCID  (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) has launched its Registry (http://orcid.org), where researchers can distinguish themselves by creating a unique profile and personal identifier for themselves.

Announcement: http://about.orcid.org/news/2012/10/16/orcid-launches-registry

Winchester, MA  On Oct. 16 Rick Johnson and Richard Green presented “A Case Study on General Repository Applications using Hydra". This webinar is part of the Hot Topics Community Webinar Series, “Get a Head on Your Repository with Hydra End-to-End Solutions,” curated by Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist at Stanford University Libraries. 

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the recent release of Fedora 3.6 on Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET. Edwin Shin, Fedora Release Team Leader and Managing Partner and Technical Director, MediaShelf, will be presenting an overview of what's new in Fedora Repository 3.6.

From Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer, DuraSpace

Amathus, Cyprus  The Fourth EuroMed international conference (www.euromed2012.eu) is being organized in cooperation with the European Commission, and is the event of the CY-Presidency of the EU Council on Cultural Heritage. This Pan-European conference is under the Patronage of UNESCO, and will be held during the time period that Cyprus holds the CY-EU Council Presidency. This year the conference will focus on 21st century cultural heritage challenges: