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From Thornton Staples, Director of Research and Scientific Data Management, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, DC This is an update about the next Fedora Users Meeting for the Washington DC region. I apologize for double posting, but many people have not yet found our google-groups mailing list. That mailing list can joined at http://groups.google.com/group/dc-fedora-users.

From Theodor Wyeld, Screen & Media, Flinders University

Adelaide, South Australia A symposium on the 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation, will  be held in London July 12, 13 - 15 2011.

http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/ (Click on Symposia hypertext)

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From Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute

From Ina Smith, E-Research Repository Manager, Library and Information Service, University of Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, South Africa The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD2011) will be held from September 13-17, 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa:

http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011

Austin, Texas What role do social interactions play within repository technical communities in developing distributed services and cyberinfrastructure that help create open access to and preservation of our shared digital heritage? The Sixth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) communities will address that question in the state capital of Texas, Austin, often billed as "The Live Music Capital of the World,” from June 8-11, 2011 at the AT&T Conference Center.

Ithaca, NY The lure of creating instant storage space, copies of large chunks of institutional data and new services are key reasons why there is enthusiam for using the "cloud"–we all own a piece of the digital tsunami of information and we are actively looking for more lifeboats load with our content asap.

Preserving the world’s

intellectual, cultural and

scientific heritage isn’t easy.

 

It’s vital. Together we can do it.

Westminster, CO The theme for Jasig's 2011 conference is "Spotlight on Open Source. The conference will be held from Monday, May 23 through Wednesday, May 25, 2011
 at the Westin Westminster Hotel in Westminster Colorado.

http://www.jasig.org/jasigs-spotlight-open-source

Cohen gave reasons for why he believes that the the web way–serendipitous experimentation that occasionally creates something great–and the academic way are very different. Illustration LibCom.org.

Kyoto, Japan "Culture and Computing 2011" will be held October 20-22, 2011 at The Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Japan. Conference web site:

http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2011/