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Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace organization and the Fedora Futures Project are pleased to announce that Andrew Woods will take over as the new Technical Lead for Fedora effective May 15, 2013. In this role he will provide technical leadership for the Fedora Futures Project. Woods joined the DuraSpace organization in early 2009 as a Fedora committer. Since then he has helped establish the D.C. Area Fedora Users Group, been a project co-lead on DuraCloud, and worked in various technical and advisory capacities within DPN, APTrust, Chronopolis, and NDSA.

Washington, DC  The White House issued an Open Data Policy and Executive Order on May 9, 2013:

• Obama Administration Releases Historic Open Data Rules to Enhance Government Efficiency and Fuel Economic Growth

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/obama-administration-releases-historic-open-data-rules-enhance-governmen

Washington, DC  Launched in 2010, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is a collaborative effort among 145 government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to preserve our nation's digital resources for the benefit of present and future generations. The NDSA supports activities which advance digital stewardship in all its forms.

Secondary storage in Amazon Glacier offers customers more cost effective long-term storage options

Winchester, MA  Join the DuraCloud team online for a brown bag session TOMORROW, April 24th at 12:30pm ET led by Tim Donohue, DSpace Technical Lead. Tim will provide details about how to preserve DSpace content with DuraCloud that will include short demonstration of how to backup content from a DSpace instance to DuraCloud via the Replication Task Suite  DSpace component add-on.

Winchester, MA  There are plenty of questions that come up as you make the decision to preserve digital content in the cloud—any cloud. What's the process like? Can I control my content in the cloud? What can I do with my content once it's in the cloud? How do I retrieve it? What are the advantages of replicating content with multiple providers? What does it mean to synchronize content?

Winchester, MA  Find out how DSpace services offered by @mire (http://atmire.com/) and DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), will help you make the most of your digital content at the "Discover DSpace" booth (1326) at ACRL (April 10-13, 2013).

@mire will showcase new functionality for its suite of DSpace add-on modules. As a visitor you will have the chance to participate in a contest to win one of these modules for your own DSpace repository.

Winchester, MA  Members of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Technical Team presented an overview web seminar on March 20, 2013.

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, CNI 

Washington, DC  Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?, a project briefing presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC and Sara Snyder of the Smithsonian Institution, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/a6Qs-_51Qko
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/61522767