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

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. 
 

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:
 

Winchester, MA  Join the DuraCloud team online for the fourth brown bag session of 2013 TOMORROW, May 29th at 12:30pm ET.  May's brown bag session will detail the new integration between DuraCloud and Amazon Glacier, specifically discussing the unique qualities of Glacier cloud storage, use cases best suited for using Glacier, and also give a brief demonstration of how to backup content into Glacier via DuraCloud.
 

Winchester, MA  An overview of this year's Open Repositories Conference is now available online. Main track sessions include many topics of interest: repository solutions for time-based media, strategies and best practices for current issues including open access, data management, data use, innovations in repository workflows, linked data use cases, cloud-based approaches to preservation, metrics applications and much more.

Winchester, MA  A recording and presentation slides of the May 16, 2013 DuraCloud webinar are now available. The presentation focused on the integration of Amazon’s Glacier with DuraCloud’s preservation and archiving service. Presenters Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace Chief Executive Officer, Tim Harder, Amazon Web Services’Business Development Manager, and Bill Branan, DuraCloud Architect provided details about how Glacier works as part of the DuraCloud service.
 

Winchester, MA  On May 14 Dean Krafft, Jon Corson-Rikert and Brian Lowe presented “An Overview of VIVO". This webinar is part of the Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking,” curated by Dr. Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Incubator Project Management Committee.

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.