Events

From USETDA 2012 Conference Organizing Committee and USETDA Board of Directors

Boston, MA You can still participate in North America’s premier event on electronic theses and dissertations, institutional repositories and open access at the incredibly low rate of only $129 for renewing members – and new members can join USETDA at a 50% discount to receive the discount rate. The USETDA 2012 Conference early-bird discount registration will soon expire on May 13th. Conference registration information is available online: http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=811

About the Conference

The United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) planning committee is pleased to invite you to our 2nd annual conference “USETDA 2012: A revolution in scholarship – A commonwealth of knowledge”, to be held June 13-15, in historic Quincy, Massachusetts – near downtown Boston.

Searching for innovative new ways to engage your students? Looking to increase efficiency by making technology work for you? Take your ETD program to the next level. This year’s program includes an outstanding lineup of speakers offering 3 pre-conference workshops, keynote presentations by Michele Kimpton of DSpace and Ed Fox of NDLTD as well as 24 breakout sessions covering a variety of relevant topics ranging from discussions on implementation, intellectual property and preservation issues to sharing best practices among the ETD community. Complete program details are available online: http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=1210.

USETDA 2012 is designed for ETD professionals from graduate schools, libraries and information technology sectors who work with ETDs or ETD programs. Our focus will be on relevant and current ETD issues with an emphasis on sharing best-practices and resources within the U.S. The Conference is also open to colleagues outside the U.S. – anyone is welcome to attend this national venue. Last year at USETDA 2011, we had 75 organizations and agencies represented. You can see who is currently registered for ETD 2012 via our online Registration Map. This year we are expecting over 125 participants to attend from around the U.S. as well as abroad.

USETDA 2012 will be held at the Boston Marriott Quincy Hotel. The conference rate is only $149/night single/double plus tax. To receive this rate, conference attendees must book before May 22, 2012. Reservations may be completed online or by calling 1-866-449-7387 (refer to group code “useusea”).

About Boston

Historic Boston provides endless recreational, dining and cultural activities for the entire family. While in the area be sure to take advantage of lovely summer weather, the seacoast, the history and the charm of the Boston area. Watch a video on highlights of Boston. Complete details on things to do in Boston are available online.

Complete information about USETDA 2012 is available online at http://www.usetda.org/. Questions may be sent to board@usetda.org.

We hope you will join us in June in Boston at USETDA 2012 for an exceptional value and spectacular learning experiences on ETDs!

From Geri Bunker Ingram, Manager of User Services for Digital Collection Services, OCLC Online Computer LIbrary Center, Inc.

Join us to learn how the University of Hawaii at Manoa is organizing their digital library and increasing its visibility by incorporating the newest features of OCLC’s WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway into their workflow. Hear how this free tool can help you increase readership of your digital materials by exposing them through WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.

• Taylor Surface, OCLC, will provide an overview of the Gateway and its new features and how they can help to highlight your digital content metadata in WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.

• Beth Tillinghast, University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Institutional Repository manager, will discuss current issues and approaches in enhancing workflow and visibility for various collections in the UHM ScholarSpace (DSpace) repositories.

• Martha Chantiny, Head of Desktop Network Services in the UHM Library, will share the current status of UHM Library image collections, which are posted to the web using the OAI harvestable Streetprint Digital Library.

• Daniel Ishimitsu, Information Technology Specialist for UHM Library, will discuss the project that he worked on to allow the mapping of thumbnails for display in OAIster, now part of WorldCat.org.

Please join your colleagues from the University of Hawaii Manoa and OCLC Digital Collection Services on Thursday, May 3.

12:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
9:00 am Hawaii Time (Honolulu, GMT-10:00)
3:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
 

No registration necessary. Log in at:  https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=316916883

For more information, contact Geri Bunker Ingram at ingramg@oclc.org. 

From Stuart Macdonald, on behalf of the OR12 organizing committee

Edinburgh, UK We are pleased to announce that delegate registration for Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) is now open via the conference electronic payment system [link: http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/registration/]. The early booking rate of £295 ($470) is available until May 21. The Conference will be held July 9-13, 2012 in Edinburgh.

Accommodation is booked separately:
http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/delegates/accommodation/

The theme and title of the 2012 conference, "Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out," reflects the current move towards open content, 'augmented content', distributed systems and data delivery infrastructures.

Additional information about the conference is provided on the OR2012 website [link: http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/].

We look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh for OR12.

From Marlee Givens, The GALILEO Knowledge Repository, Gerogia Tech Library

Atlanta, GA Please register for the latest iteration of CURATEcamp, a curation technology unconference, to scrutinize all things digital curation in Atlanta May 7-8. At this point, we do not have a particular camp theme, such as microservices or metadata.  Depending on participant interest, topic choices are subject to change!

Registration for CURATEcamp 2012 is open: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1081751

The user-generated format is highly participatory, allowing attendees to guide camp sessions. In fact, all attendees are expected to give a demo, present a talk, drive a discussion, or participate in a panel or roundtable.  If it turns out that we have an event full of people interested in research data curation infrastructure and services, so be it!

More information about CURATEcamp and how it works: http://curatecamp.org

Breakfast and lunch are provided. You are responsible for your travel arrangements and lodging.  A block of rooms are reserved at the conference rate at the North Ave. Hampton Inn: http://tinyurl.com/bt7wzy8.  Space is limited, so register today.

Brought to you by the generous support of the Digital Library Federation, Penn State Libraries, and Georgia Tech Libraries.

Registration is now open for the Jasig Sakai Joint Conference, to be held June 10-15, 2012 in Atlanta. The theme this year is "Growing Community; Growing Possibilities: Open innovative technologies for learning, teaching, and research".

https://www.concentra-cms.com/c/2012-jasig-sakai

Here is your chance to participate in the coming together of two established open source communities in their inaugural joint conference. There will be something for everyone.

Pre-conference seminars in uPortal, uMobile, Sakai CLE, Sakai OAE, Sakai OSP, CAS, Bedework, 2-3-98, Scheduling Assistant, and OpenCast Matterhorn on Sunday, June 10th.

Presentations, Birds of a Feather discussions, and other concurrent sessions on Monday, June 11th to lunchtime Thursday, June 14th in the following tracks: Awareness and Advocacy; Design and Development; Deployment and Integration; Expanded Solutions; Getting Started; Leadership and Future Directions; Teaching, Learning, Portfolios and Research; and Technical Management.

Join communities of practice around: Identity and Access Management and Promoting Open Source Software.  Work face-to-face with other developers and strategic planners on: Sakai CLE, Sakai OAE, and the Jasig products.

WHEN:

June 10 - Pre-conference Seminars and Bootcamps
June 11-14 - Main Conference
June 14-15 - Post-Conference Project Collaboration Time and Developer Days

WHERE:

Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta
210 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30303
Hotel Direct: 404-659-1400
Group Reservations: 1-800-937-8461
Online reservations: http://bit.ly/jasigsakaihotel2012
Group code: Jasig-Sakai2012 Conference
Early registration ends May 11th!

LEARN MORE (and keep checking back for updates):

http://www.jasig.org/jasig-sakai-conference-2012
http://www.sakaiproject.org/jasig-sakai-conference-2012

Help us Grow Communities and Grow Possibilities!  Register now. https://www.concentra-cms.com/c/2012-jasig-sakai

From Seamus Ross, General Chair and Andrew Drummond, Local Organizing Chair iPRES2012

Toronto, Canada The University of Toronto Faculty of Information will host the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2012) in Toronto, Canada in October 2012. iPRES2012 will be the ninth in the series of annual international conferences that bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our digital heritage.

Digital Preservation and Curation continues to evolve from a niche activity to an established practice and research field that involves many disciplines and communities. iPRES2012 will re-emphasise that preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage requires integration of activities and research across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to adequately address the challenges in digital preservation.

iPRES2012 will continue the legacy of previous conferences by further strengthening the link between digital preservation research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific data centres.

SUBMISSIONS

iPRES 2012 invites submissions of full and short papers reporting on novel and previously unpublished work. Full papers report innovative research work, while short papers present new relevant challenges and work in progress. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. The accepted papers will be published in the iPRES2012 proceedings.

Submissions are encouraged for a special session for posters that report on emerging issues or work in progress, and also for demonstrations of innovative systems and solutions.

All contributions will be peer-reviewed.  Accepted short-papers, posters and demos will also be published in the iPRES2012 proceedings.

More information, including instructions for submission, will available at the iPRES2012 homepage: http://ipres.ischool.utoronto.ca

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Domain-specific Challenges (Cultural Heritage, Technical and Scientific Processes and Data, Engineering Models and Simulation, Medical Records, Corporate Processes and Recordkeeping, Web Archiving, Personal Archiving, e-Procurement)

• Systems Life-cycle (Requirements, Modeling, Design, Development, Deployment and Maintenance)

• Trusted Repositories and Governance (Risk Analysis, Planning, Audit and Certification,

Information/Data Quality, Business Models, Cost Estimation)

• Case Studies and Best Practices (Processes, Metadata, Systems, Services, Infrastructures)

• Innovation in Digital Preservation (Novel Challenges and Scenarios, Innovative Approaches, Preservation at Scale)

• Added-value of Digital Preservation (Benefits Analysis, Emerging Exploitation Scenarios, Long-Tail of Digital Repositories and Archives, Designated Communities)

• Training and Education

• Theory of Digital Preservation (Interdisciplinary Modeling, Representation Concepts, Incentive Structures)

IMPORTANT DATES

15 May 2012 - Workshop Proposals and Full Papers due

15 June 2012- Short papers, posters and demonstrations proposals due

15 June 2012 - Tutorial and panel proposals due

28 June 2012 - Acceptance notification for all proposals

21 August 2012 - Camera-ready papers due

1-5 October 2012 - iPRES 2012 Conference

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

GENERAL CHAIRS:

- Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada

- Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Centre, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:

-Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina, USA

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR:

- Ross Harvey, Simmons College, USA

TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS:

- Carolyn Hank, McGill University, Canada

- Raivo Ruusalepp, Estonian Business Archives, Estonia

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

-Angela Dappert, Digital Preservation Coalition, UK

-Christopher A. Lee, University of North Carolina, USA

LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR:

- Andrew Drummond, University of Toronto, Canada

Nairobi, Kenya The XXth Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) will be held June 4-8, 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme "Information for Sustainable Development in a Digital Environment" highlights opportunities for information professionals in Africa to take advantage of the recent transformation from print to digital information. Speakers will also examine impediments to moving forward including inadequate ICT infrastructure, lack of skills and knowledge, inadequate legal framework, adoption of new technologies, funding and sustainability, ethical issues and others.

SCECSAL Conference web site: http://www.scecsal.org/index.html

SCECSAL is a regional grouping of library and information associations in Africa. The SCECSAL region covers the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swazliand, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

From Bram Luyten, @mire, a DuraSpace Registered Service Provider

Last week's DSpace User Group Meeting took place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kansas City (MO). 25 enthusiastic participants were welcomed by Valorie Hollister, the Duraspace Director of Community Programs.

Under the motto "Collaboration as the new competition", Duraspace is taking a big step forward in terms of their business model and technologies. Both the Registered Service Provider Program and the Sponsorship Program have been successful in attracting funds to sustain the organization. By 2014, 32% of the required funds should be generated by the provision of novel services.

For the full report: https://atmire.com/website/?q=content/sparc-2012-dspace-user-group

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud (http://DuraCloud.org) team will host the second in a new series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud features NEXT Wednesday, March 28 at 12:30pm ET. Wednesday's brown bag session will detail the media streaming capabilities in DuraCloud and how you can use them to embed media files into your own applications.

Tune in to the "DuraCloud Brown Bag Series" for short, 30-minute demonstrationsand/or discussions of new features, common use cases, and frequently asked questions.
An additional 15 minutes at the end of each will be reserved for questions. The Brown Bag series will take place on the last Wednesday of every month from 12:30-1:15pm ET.

There is no need to register to attend, simply connect to the session if you are available.

To join the event:

1. Log in to http://educause.adobeconnect.com/duraspace/.
2. On the welcome page, click to "Enter As Guest" and enter your name and institution.
3. Click "Enter Room" and the session will launch.

Before the event:

• Audio for the webinar will be presented through your computer speakers.
• Please be sure to run a system test before logging in:
http://educause.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm.

For the complete list of upcoming Brown Bag topics or to submit a suggested topic,
please visit: http://duracloud.org/brown_bag_series
or contact Carissa Smith: csmith@duraspace.org

For anyone who was unable to attend SPARC's first Open Access Meeting or the DSpace User Group Meeting held in Kansas City last week there are many useful resources available to learn about what was presented and discussed.

SPARC Meeting

Articles & Blog Posts

SPARC: "SPARC’s First Open Access Meeting a Success" http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/blog/SPARC_OA_Meeting_Success.shtml

COAR: "SPARC Open Access Meeting Notes" http://www.coar-repositories.org/news/sparc-open-access-meeting-notes/

@mire: "SPARC 2012: John Wilbanks Keynote" https://atmire.com/website/?q=content/sparc-2012-john-wilbanks-keynote

Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge: "#sparc2012 a manifesto in absentia for Open Data" http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/13/sparc2012-a-manifesto-in-absentia-for-open-data/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetermrsBlog+%28petermr%27s+blog%29

Christine Ross from the University of Florida: "Sparks of Wisdom from the SPARC Open Access Meeting" http://campuscopyright.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/sparks-of-wisdom/

Notes

Twitter posts: #sparc2012

Titanpad notes: 

Opening: http://titanpad.com/oa-opening

OA Policy Adoption: http://titanpad.com/oa-policy-adoption

OA Repositories: http://titanpad.com/oa-repositories

Storify notes: 

SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Open Access Publishing http://storify.com/paoloman/sparc-open-access-conference-session-on-open-acces

SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Author Rights http://storify.com/paoloman/sparc-open-access-conference-session-on-author-rig

SPARC Open Access Conference - session on Digital Repositories http://storify.com/paoloman/sparc-open-access-conference-session-on-digital-re

SPARC Open Access Conference - session on OA policies http://storify.com/paoloman/sparc-open-access-conference-session-on-oa-policie
 

Other notes: http://www.greatplains.net/display/Home/2012/03/12/SPARC+OPEN+ACCESS+Meeting+-+March+12+-+Opening+Comments+and+Keynote

DSpace User Group Meeting

The DSpace community gathered for a user group meeting on March 14, following the SPARC Open Access Meeting in Kansas City. Besides an update from Valorie Hollister on the DuraSpace organization and DSpace, there were several interesting presentations from the community.

Slides 
Available on the meeting wiki page https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+2012.

Notes
Available at http://titanpad.com/sparc-dspace.

From Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Lima, Peru The theme of ETD 2012 is “Integrating cultures for the creation and sharing of knowledge – providing opportunities for the future”.  Our goal is to explore and share opportunities between representatives from Ibero American and other countries around the world, in order to exchange experiences and knowledge on scholarly communications projects related to the topics considered in the ETD 2012 program.

The program will include technical papers, plenary keynote and panel sessions, workshops and poster presentations about the following topics:

• Digital preservation
• Copyright / Intellectual property
• Institutional Repositories
• ETD policies and programs
• Technological developments in ETD and institutional repositories
• Digital libraries and information technology
• National and international collaboration
• ETD Multimedia
• Data Curation
• Interoperability and union catalog collections

If you are interested in presenting a paper, power point presentation, or contributing a panel or poster session, please visit the proposal submission Web site at

http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/en/presentacion-trabajos/index.asp

The preliminary program as well as speakers and other relevant information are available at the conference Web site www.etd2012.edu.pe. We hope you will consider participating in this important international digital library venue and you will join us for an engaging experience at ETD 2012 as well as the incredible “once in a lifetime” experiences that Peruvian culture has to offer. Machu Picchu, Lima and many other sights are waiting for you, and so are we!  For more information please send your requests to:

Liliana Eléspuru (etd2012@gmail.com)
Libio Huaroto (etd2012@gmail.com)

Co-Chairs, ETD 2012 Conference Organizing Committee
ETD 2012 Website - www.etd2012.edu.pe/

From Zohar Babin, Dir. of Community and Developer Relations, Kaltura

This year’s Kaltura DevConnect is shaping up to be quite an event, featuring a host of amazing speakers and topics. The full program may be viewed on the Kaltura DevConnect web site.

Here’s a quick view of some of what's planned:

• Join Luca Candela, Sencha’s product manager for Sencha Tools, as he takes you through a fascinatinghands-on session on developing rich video applications for mobile devices and tablets: From zero to tablet in 45 minutes: how to develop a video gallery with Sencha Touch.

• Explore the many possibilities of citizen journalism in the era of web video in Tom Ortega's talk: Video Journalism for the People: Empowering the Average Joe to Take on the Mass Media.

• PayPal's Sidney Maestre teaches you how to put your video to work with PayPal's HTML5 Mobile Kit combined with Kaltura's HTML5 cross-device playback: Online Video Monetization Strategies Using PayPal's HTML5 Kit and Kaltura.

• Join David Kronmiller and learn all about Video Encoding in his talk - From Source To Stream: Demystifying Video In The Digital Era.

• Nir Erlich, Kaltura's Playback & Mobile Product Manager, shares exciting new developments in Native Mobile Application using Kaltura’s Reference Application and SDK.

Join us in NYC at Kaltura DevConnect on April 2, 2012 and connect with hundreds of the brightest and most talented people in the web video industry today.

Early bird price ends on Thursday, March 15th, and tickets are going fast! – Get your early-bird Community Member discount today for just $50!

Not a community member? Join now (it’s free!) and take advantage of the reduced ticket price.

If you have any questions email zohar.babin@kaltura.com.

From Ian Dolphin, Executive Director, Sakai Foundation and  Patty Gertz, Interim Executive Director, Jasig

Something special is happening in Atlanta, June 10-15. Jasig and Sakai, two of the pioneers of open source software in higher education, are pooling resources to provide a better home for innovation. The Jasig-Sakai Conference will showcase the adoption and growth of software to support advances in learning, teaching and research, together with the infrastructure that enables it.

Submission Deadline is March 18, 2012
https://www.concentra-cms.com/cfp/p/2012-jasig-sakai

Come to learn about – and share your experience with – the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment to support a variety of approaches to teaching and learning; uPortal to present a unified view of campus services; CAS to offer single sign-on to multiple online resources; or Bedework to deliver a robust calendaring solution. Engage with the dreamers and designers of uMobile, a framework for innovative mobile solutions.  See the latest release and contribute to the vision of the Sakai Open Academic Environment, a next-generation approach to promote effective learning, teaching and research online. Share your successes on, and ask your peers about, raising campus awareness and ultimately adoption of open initiatives through "The 2-3-98 Project."

We invite you to submit a proposal to this year's conference. Share your great work with the community and spark new developments through a track presentation, technology demonstration, or birds of a feather event. The deadline for proposals is Sunday, March 18, 2012.

Want to see or hear about a specific subject at the conference? Submit topic ideas to the program committee.

Above all, the Atlanta conference is a global networking point for practitioners. There will be opportunities in and around the conference program, for meeting, sharing and learning from others in our global community. Join us in growing community and growing possibilities!

Glastonbury, CT NERCOMP (http://www.nercomp.org/) enhances the communication and dissemination of information related to the use of computers, networks and information technology in education, academic research and educational administration throughout the Northeastern United States. This year's annual conference (http://www.educause.edu/NC12) to be held March 12-14 in Providence, RI explores the theme, "Does Technology Enhance or Limit Human Interactions?"

NERCOMP 2012 is available online. Early-bird registration rates end for the online NERCOMP Annual Conference on Wednesday, March 7. Online attendees may:

•Access special online-only sessions and a selection of key synchronous sessions from the face-to-face conference. Sessions include the two general session presentations—a fast, funny presentation by David Pogue, New York Times columnist, "What's New, What's Coming, and How it Will Change Everything," and a panel discussion about increasing the awareness of IT's value.

• Gain a greater understanding of what’s happening with key technologies on campuses and how to implement them in creative ways at your institution, including practical tips on how to use technologies without compromising the human interactions and critical key relationships.

• Use single login credentials to attend from the privacy of your own office, or book a conference room and invite a team together to participate in one location.

From Kevin Ashley, 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) Program Chair

Edinburgh, UK The call for papers for Open Repositories 2012 has been extended one last time to midnight on Thursday March 8th. This is in response to demand from
those who didn't receive the announcement about the opening of the submissions system in a timely fashion. You need to submit a 2 to 4 page summary of your proposal for either the main conference track or the Eprints, DSpace and Fedora user group tracks via our online conference system Conftool, accessible from the conference website:

http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/submissions/

Whether you want to talk about something you have done, that someone else has done, that you want to do or that you wish someone else would do, OR2012 is the place to say it if it's at all connected with repositoriesof any type - for publications, for data, for learning materials, for social
media, for digital content of any type.

This is definitely the final extension to the submission deadline. Delay no longer!

More information on the extension and links to more information on OR2012 is here:

http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/2012/03/05/or2012-one-last-extension-for-papers-to-midnight-march-8th/

From Stuart Macdonald, Associate Data Librarian, EDINA, on behalf of OR2012 Host Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, UK The online submissions system for OR12 is live at: http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/submissions/

Whether your proposal is for the general conference track, or more suited to the user group tracks for EPrints, DSpace and Fedora, you've still got until MONDAY MARCH 5, 2012 to refine your ideas for papers. The remaining dates in the process are not expected to shift, so you'll still have plenty of time to make arrangements to attend.

Mar 5, 2012 Deadline for papers, workshops&  user group sessions
Mar 31, 2012 Deadline for posters, Pecha Kucha and demos
Apr 6, 2012 workshop/paper submitters notified
May 11, 2012 Poster/demo/Pecha Kucha submitters notified
Jul 9, 2012 Conference pre-workshops begin

Workshop proposals can be made now by email to OR2012@ed.ac.uk; we've already received a number of exciting ideas so we would encourage you not to wait until the deadline if you haven't already been in touch.

This year's event will also have more space for informal,
unconference-style contributions as well as the Developer Challenge. If a full paper isn't for you, consider contributing in another way. We'll be releasing more details nearer the event. This will include Pecha Kuchas and poster sessions with a deadline of the 31st of March.

Ithaca, NY Please join Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer of DuraSpace and Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer of DuraSpace for an EDUCAUSE Live! presentation about how the DuraCloud open source solution can help higher education manage and persist content in the cloud working with multiple cloud providers, both commercial and noncommercial.

WEB SEMINAR-DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education
WHEN-February 29, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. ET
PRESENTERS-Michele Kimpton, Jonathan Markow

Register here: http://net.educause.edu/live1206

From Simon Benjamin, The Senior Fellow in Quantum Materials, Dept Materials, Oxford: www.qunat.org

Oxford, UK On leap-Wednesday the 29th Feb, a rare chance to meet an eminent panel of speakers and debate:

The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and the Future of Publishing

The panel includes speakers from Nature, Elsevier, and the Wellcome trust, together with Lord Robert Winston, Cameron Neylon and Victor Henning, CEO of Mendeley.

We'll address question like, Do we still need science journals in the internet age? Is there something better than peer review? How will scientific papers evolve? Is the Elsevier boycott (thecostofknowledge.com) the start of something big?

The change has already begun: SOPA and the RWA, the boycott of Elsevier. Science is evolving to become more open. How will you make the most of the change? Come to discover, to debate, and come to take action.

From 3:30pm on 29th Feb, Wednesday of 7th Week: be at Rhodes House in Oxford to take part in shaping the future of publishing.

The event is free, and you can optionally email reserve@EvolutionOfScience.org to reserve a seat.

www.EvolutionOfScience.org

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud team will launch a new series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud features on February 29, 2012 at 12:30pm ET. Tune in to the "DuraCloud Brown Bag Series" for short, 30-minute demonstrations and/or discussions of new features, common use cases, and frequently asked questions. An additional 15 minutes at the end of each will be reserved for questions.

The Brown Bag series will take place on the last Wednesday of every month from 12:30-1:15pm ET. There is no need to register to attend, simply connect to the session if you are available.

The first DuraCloud Brown Bag will take place Wednesday, February 29th and will detail the new permissions and access control features in DuraCloud.

To join the event:

1. Log in to http://educause.adobeconnect.com/duraspace/.
2. On the welcome page, click to "Enter As Guest" and enter your name and institution.
3. Click "Enter Room" and the session will launch.

Before the event:

• Audio for the webinar will be presented through your computer speakers.
• Please be sure to run a system test before logging in:
http://educause.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm.

For the complete list of upcoming Brown Bag topics or to submit a suggested topic, please visit: http://duracloud.org/brown_bag_series or contact Carissa Smith: csmith@duraspace.org. If you'd like to receive reminder emails about upcoming sessions, please join the DuraCloud mailing list.

Ithaca, NY All DSpace enthusiasts are invited to a free, half-day user group meeting on March 14 from 8:30am - 1:00pm following the SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting in Kansas City. The meeting is a courtesy of DSpace Community Advisory Team, the DuraSpace organization and @mire, a DSpace Registered Service Provider. Included in the meeting will be an update on DSpace, various community presentations and an opportunity for structured networking. To register for the meeting, please send your name and institution to vhollister@duraspace.org. For additional information and updates on the meeting, please visit https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+2012 or the SPARC DSUG Crowdvine at http://sparc-dspace.crowdvine.com/posts.