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From Charles W. Bailey, Jr, Publisher, Digital Scholarship

Houston, TX  Digital Scholarship  has released version 3 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography. This selective  bibliography includes over 230 English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.

VIVO is a one-stop network of researchers, projects, and results that enables collaborative research discovery and interdisciplinary scholarship.

LGL map of the Internet by the Opte Project

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

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!

St. Louis, MO  The 2013 VIVO Conference is set for August 14-16 in St. Louis. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director at CNI, and David Wood, Chief Technology Officer at 3 Round Stones, will be speakers at the Conference. There's still time to take advantage of early bird registration rates (June 21) and submit a poster (June 12): http://bit.ly/12AUGrA

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).

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: