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Winchester, MA  If you are traveling to Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island in Canada for the Eight International Conference on Open Repositories next month (July 8-12) you may be interested in these DuraSpace-related workshops, presentations and meetings.

From Mark Leggott, OR2013 Conference Chair, Sarah Shreeves, OR2013 Program Co-Chair and Jon Dunn, OR2013 Program Co-Chair

Heverlee, Belgium  During the morning session of the recent DSpace Boot Camp held on May 28 in Ghent, Belgium, Pieter Van der Elst walked participants through the DSpace directory structure and shared a few customization best practices. Bram Luyten gave a primer on XML User Interface customization.

Recordings, slides and notes: http://atmire.com/website/?q=content/dspace-bootcamp-recordings-slides-and-notes

Winchester, MA  On June 11 Brian Lowe and Jim Blake from Cornell University presented, “VIVO Technical Deep Dive.”  This was the third and final webinar in the Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking” curated by Dean Krafft. 
 

From the DSpace Committers Group

Winchester, MA  The DSpace committers team is delighted to announce a new member to the group: Kostas Stamatis from The National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation (EKT / NHRF) in Greece. Please join us in welcoming him!

From Nicky Whitsed, Director of Library Services, The Open University

London, UK  The First European MOOCs and Libraries Conference, "MOOCs and Libraries: the good, the bad and the ugly", will be held on Friday July 12th, 2013 at the Pullman Hotel in Central London.

Valletta, Malta  A one-day workshop  on "Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets" will be held in Valletta, Malta, on September 26, 2013. The workshop is sponsored by OpenAIREplus (www.openaire.eu) and EuroCRIS (www.eurocris.org) and is being offered In conjunction with TPDL 2013 (www.tpdl2013.info).

Winchester, MA  On June 4 DuraSpace offered the second webinar in the Hot Topics DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.”  Alex Viggio, University of Colorado, Boulder, Steven McCauley, Brown University, Julia Trimmer, Duke University and Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College presented, “Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke, and Weill Cornell Medical College.”  The webinar succeeded in showing both the commonalitie,s and in some ways, quite different approaches to VIVO at each of the i

From Mark Leggott, Conference Chair, Sarah Shreeves, Program Chair and Jon Dunn, Program Chair

Charlottetown PEI, Canada  The premiere conference for digital repositories is being held in Charlottetown PEI, July 8-12. I encourage you to register and book your accommodation as soon as possible so you can join your colleagues for a week of stimulating discussion. The full schedule of events is now online and we have 2 great keynotes: