Data curation

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.

Ann Arbor, MI  The Digital Directions Conference will be held July 21-23, 2013 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Join a faculty of national experts, experienced digital collections curators, and colleagues from institutions large and small as we come together to explore the challenges, considerations, and choices surrounding digital collections care.

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From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) webinar will be held on May 15 at 11:30am EST. The webinar is free for ASIS&T members and $20 for non-ASIS&T members.

To register, go to:

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-5-15-2013-register.html

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.

From Louisa Kwasigroch, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources

Washington, DC  The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum is seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.

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