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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

From Andrea Higginbotham, SPARC <andrea@arl.org>, and Devika Levy, World Bank <

This is the final week to register for the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute!  There are just a few openings available for the fall 2012 offering, which runs from September 6 through December 13. To register, visit http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute. 

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

Winchester, MA Why attend the fall 2012 E-Science Institute?

D. Scott Brandt, Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University Libraries and 2011 E-Science Institute participant suggests, “The E-Science Institute helps you get a handle on e-Science so you can articulate where and how to support research in new ways. The ESI faculty’s  experience, knowledge and guidance make this an excellent program. Participants have to do their share of the work, but the outcomes and networking are very much worth it.”

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

Winchester, MA DuraSpace, a leader in open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, took the leap into cloud computing with the launch of the DuraCloud managed service and open source software in 2011.  DuraSpace took that leap because it is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to contributing to the preservation of the world's vital intellectual, cultural and scientific heritage.

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

Houston, TX  Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Resource Guide:

http://digital-scholarship.org/dcrg/dcrg.htm

This resource guide presents over 200 selected English-language websites and documents that are useful in understanding and conducting digital curation. It covers

Increased standards support and expanded Spring-based configuration in Fedora 3.6

Ithaca, NY According to Wikipedia Twitter has 500 million users and sees 340 million tweets per day. This is just one indicator that people and organizations are now sharing and accessing every kind of news and information in 140 characters, via YouTube and, or through one or more customized social media pipes on many types of devices. How do your web site stats look these days?