Events

From Nate Heasley, Executive Director of Goodnik.

Registration for the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute is now open for the fall 2012 offering. 

Stellenbosch, South Africa Registration is now open for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference, to be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa November 7-8, 2012. Registration is also open for Pre-conference Workshops to be presented on November 6, 2012.

Redwood Shores, CA This fall the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be held in Dublin, Ireland at the Gresham Hotel from October 17-19, 2012.

From Mike Conlon, University of Florida, VIVO 2012 Conference Chair 

Miami, FL The third annual VIVO conference will be held in Miami, August 22-24.  Deadline for registration is July 31. See http://www.vivoweb.org/conference2012 for registration and program information.

From Stuart Macdonald & William Nixon on behalf of OR2012 Organising Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland As we count down to the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) on 9-13 July, 2012 we are pleased to announce that we have well in excess of 300 delegates registered for OR2012!

Washington, DC This year's Open Access Week theme is "Set the Default to Open Access" for Open Access Week (October 22 – 28, 2012). Our first online event to launch this year’s events will be a webcast with three speakers who will showcase the state of open access in each of their countries.

From William Nixon and Stuart Macdonald, On behalf of OR2012 Programme Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland We are counting down to the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) on 9-13 July, 2012 and are delighted to announce that we are able to extend the Early Booking rate until Monday 18 June. The Early Booking rate is £295 with a full-price rate of £350 thereafter. There is also a day rate of £115.

From Imma Subirats Knowledge and Information Management Officer, OEKC - FAO of the United Nations

Rome, Italy A Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures will be offered as part of the Sixth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'12) November 28-30, 2012 in Cádiz (Spain)
http://mtsr2012.uca.es/.

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