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

From Laura Wendell, Executive Director, Dryad

Dryad recently launched a redesigned web site powered by DSpace at http://datadryad.org with lots of new content. The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable providing a general-purpose home for diverse datatypes.

Winchester, MA  DuraSpace is pleased to announce its latest Hot Topics Webinar Series, VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking. DuraSpace web seminars fill up fast so be sure to reserve your spot today!

Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series Five: VIVO–Research Discovery and Networking


From Jon Dunn, Sarah Shreeves (Program Co-Chairs) and Mark Leggott (Conference Chair)

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CA  The Eigth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2013) is just around the corner–July 8-12 in beautiful Prince Edward Island. We had an awesome response to the request for proposals. An initial list of sessions is available at:

http://or2013.net/content/accepted-sessions

Winchester, MA  The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) faces, "Exponential growth in storage required for the preservation of digital collections consisting of images, audio, video, text, and other formats" in pursuit of their long-standing mission:

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace Sponsorship Campaign will kick-off on May 7, 2013 to raise funds for the DSpace and Fedora projects. The annual campaign supports the continued advancement of DSpace and Fedora open source software which is available free of charge. This year DuraSpace sponsors may chose to designate funds for either DSpace or Fedora, or to support DuraSpace generally.

Winchester, MA  Join the DuraCloud team online for a brown bag session TOMORROW, April 24th at 12:30pm ET led by Tim Donohue, DSpace Technical Lead. Tim will provide details about how to preserve DSpace content with DuraCloud that will include short demonstration of how to backup content from a DSpace instance to DuraCloud via the Replication Task Suite  DSpace component add-on.

From Rima Kupryte, Director, EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries): Knowledge Without Boundaries

São Paulo, Brazil  On online DSpace workshop will be held on April 30, UTC -3:00. No experience is necessary.

BIREME/PAHO/WHO with the Center for the Study of Bioethics and Health Diplomacy - NETHIS, will hold an online workshop to be conducted in Portugues for sharing experiences using DSPACE. The aim of the workshop is to share experiences with national institutions about DSPACE use and implementation of institutional repositories.
 

From Lisa A. Gregory, Digital Collections Manager, Digital Information Management Program State Library of North Carolina