conferences

From Maureen P. Walsh, Vice-Chair, ALCTS Metadata Interest Group, Associate Professor / Institutional Repository Services Librarian, The Ohio State University Libraries

The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group invites proposals for
presentations at its meeting at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, January 27th from 8:30 to 10:00 am.
 

Amathus, Cyprus  The Fourth EuroMed international conference (www.euromed2012.eu) is being organized in cooperation with the European Commission, and is the event of the CY-Presidency of the EU Council on Cultural Heritage. This Pan-European conference is under the Patronage of UNESCO, and will be held during the time period that Cyprus holds the CY-EU Council Presidency. This year the conference will focus on 21st century cultural heritage challenges:

From the Kaltura Team

New York, NY  The Kaltura Education Video Summit is taking place on December 6, 2012 as a virtual conference.  More than 500 attendees will be tuning in to listen to the conference sessions on the hot topics related to video in education and learning. If you are interested in reaching this audience, this is your opportunity to do so.

We are looking for suggestions for session topics, speakers and panels.

From Diana Gonzalez, IS&T Conference Program Manager

Washington, DC  IS&T (the Society for Imaging Science and Technology) is pleased to announce the 10th Archiving Conference which will be held April 2-5, 2013 in Washington, DC. The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts is November 15, 2012.

A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at

Redwood Shores, CA  The upcoming PASIG meeting will be held Oct. 17-19, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. The Early Bird Special registration rate of $250 lasts through September 5. After September 5 registration is $375. Registration information, a draft agenda and pre-meeting workshop details may be found here:

http://www.asis.org/Pasig/PASIGDublin2012.html

Honolulu, HI  The Winter 2013 APAN/ESnet/Internet2 technical meeting, known as "Techs in Paradise" or "TIP," hosted by the University of Hawaii Mānoa, from Saturday, January 12 through Friday, January 18 has issued a call for proposals. Abstracts are due on Sept.

DuraSpace was represented by staff and community members at the Seventh International Open Repositories Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland July 9-13, 2012. The following strategic overviews and links to slides and videos are provided for those who were unable to attend the conference.
 

From Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute

Atlanta, GA We are pleased to announce the publication of Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation, edited by Nancy Y. McGovern (Volume Editor).

http://www.educopia.org/publications

Hong Kong The 16th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) will be held in Hong Kong September 23-26, 2013. The theme for the conference is "ETD 2013: Asian Values, Western Thought, World Treasure!"

http://lib.hku.hk/etd2013

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.