Events

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.

Ithaca, NY Get a sneak peak of the DuraCloud web interface, view the dashboard reporting features, as well as learn how to run DuraCloud services. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has invited the DuraCloud team to conduct an introductory webinar next Wednesday, Feburary 1:

Web Seminar: Introduction to the DuraCloud Service
Wednesday, Feburary 1, 2012 from 1:00pm -2:00pm ET
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/885100290

Join Michele Kimpton, CEO of DuraSpace and Project Director of DuraCloud, Carissa Smith, Partner Specialist, and Bill Branan, Lead Developer, for a free introductory webinar detailing the DuraCloud service. The presentation will include an overview of DuraCloud: what it is, how it works, examples of how DuraCloud could work for you, as well as a live demonstration.  Register today!

Stellenbosch, South Africa Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the Max Planck Society and the Academy of Science for South Africa, has the pleasure of announcing that the prestigious Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. This will be the first time that the Berlin Open Access Conference will be held in Africa. As is tradition with the conference, it will explore the transformative impact that open, online access to research can have on scholarship, scientific discovery, and the translation of results to the benefit of the public.

The Conference will be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). STIAS is situated on the historic Mostertsdrift farm in the heart of Stellenbosch.

Conference date: November 7-8, 2012
Pre-conference date: November 6, 2012

The theme, programme, speakers and other relevant information will become available in forthcoming announcements which will also be available on the conference website (www.berlin10.org).

Silver Spring, MD Registration is open for the third annual ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) summit that will take place on March 22-23, 2012 in New Orleans at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, held in cooperation with the ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit.

Web site: http://rdap12.posterous.com/

Register: https://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP12/rdap12regform.php

View the program: http://rdap12.posterous.com/pages/program

Prices are $260 for speakers, $310 for ASIS&T members and $360 for non-members.

Now is a great time to take advantage of early bird pricing. Follow RDAP on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Research-Data-Access-Preservation-RDAP/125779237528763>and Twitter <https://twitter.com/RDAPsummit> where you will find program and social event updates.

New York, NY If you are looking to increase your video views with better Video SEO, this Webinar will explain the challenges and techniques for getting video content found and properly indexed by search engines. The webinar will also feature a hands-on walkthrough of SEO friendly video publishing with Kaltura, and give you a sneak peek at what Kaltura and Google have planned for 2012.

Please join us for an exciting webinar and your chance to ask our experts questions during Q&A time.

Register for the webinar here.

Panelists:

• Ariel Hitron - Senior Director of Product Marketing, Kaltura
• Yaron Shapira - Application Software Developer, Kaltura

For your convenience, this webinar will now be held at two different times: 

• Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:00 AM-10:00 AM EST (2:00 PM-3:00 PM GMT) For our friends in Europe and Asia (as well as American early birds)
• Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:00 PM-3:00 PM EST for our friends in The Americas

Boulder, CO Early registration ends on January 17 for the ELI Annual Meeting, "Taking the Pulse: Connecting, Assessing, and Innovating," where a matrix of themes that capture the key opportunities and challenges facing the teaching and learning community will be explored. The meeting will be held February 13–15, 2012 
at the Hilton Austin in Austin, TX, and Online

The face-to-face and online program details are now available. If you're attending in Austin, we recommend you book your hotel room at the conference hotel, the Hilton Austin.

Meeting highlights include:

"Evaluating Next Generation Learning Challenges: Blended Learning in a Scaled-Up Environment"

• Thomas Cavanagh, Assistant Vice President of Distributed Learning
• Charles D. Dziuban, Director, Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE)
• Patsy D. Moskal, Associate Director, RITE, University of Central Florida

"Setting the Stage for Innovation: A Discussion of Insights from the MISO Survey"

• Laurie Allen, Coordinator for Research, Instruction, and Outreach, Haverford College
• David Consiglio, Head of Research Support and Educational Technology, Bryn Mawr College
• Kevin J.T. Creamer, Director for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, University of Richmond
• Joshua Wilson, Director for Integrated Services, Brandeis University

"Establishing Metrics for m-Learning"

• Deborah Keyek-Franssen, Director of Academic Technology, University of Colorado at Boulder
• David W. Middleton, AVP, Finance and Technology/Executive Director, Center for Mobile Research and Innovation (CMRI), Seton Hall University
• Glenda Morgan, e-Learning Strategist, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Michael Taylor, CMRI Academic Director and Associate Professor, Seton Hall University

Providence, RI EDUCAUSE Association Partner NERCOMP (NorthEast Regional Computing Program) will host its Annual Conference March 12–14, 2012, in Providence, Rhode Island, and—for the first time—concurrently online to explore "The Human Side of IT: Does Technology Enhance or Limit Human Interactions?" More information here: http://www.educause.edu/NC12.

Chapel Hill, NC Registration is open for the DigCCurr 2012 Public Symposium CurateGear! This interactive day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on January 6, 2012. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and discuss application in professional contexts. CurateGear will be an interactive, day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. More information is available here: http://sils.unc.edu/events/2011/curategear

From Patty Gertz, Jasig

Westminster, CO The first joint Jasig/Sakai annual conference will be held Sunday, June 10 through Friday, June 15, 2012 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. Supplementary half-day Jasig and Sakai seminars will be held on on Sunday, June 10.

More details to follow soon.

If you are interested in participating in either the Conference Planning Committee (logistics) or the Conference Program Committee (content) please contact Patty Gertz at ed@jasig.org, or Ian Dolphin at iandolphin@sakaifoundation.org.

Ithaca, NY Please join Fedora technical lead Chris Wilper for a free webinar overview of the Fedora CloudSync utility and how you can use it to easily backup and restore your Fedora content with DuraCloud.

• learn more about how to backup and preserve your Fedora content with DuraCloud
• Find out how the two systems integrate

  Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. Eastern Standard Time Presented by: Chris Wilper, Fedora technical lead

The presentation will also explore the CloudSync tasks available, as well as how to recover individual content items to Fedora after they have been backed up to DuraCloud. These topics will be followed by a brief discussion on how to get started using the Fedora CloudSync utility.

Register here: http://conta.cc/uJiF9G. Please contact Kristi Searle at ksearle@duraspace.org with any questions.

     

From Tom Cramer, Chair, Preservation & Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG), Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources

Palo Alto, CA PASIG, the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, will January 11-13, 2012 in Austin at the AT&T Conference Center on the campus of University of Texas at Austin. This meeting represents the reincarnation of PASIG as an independent, community-led organization--open to and welcoming of practitioners, researchers, industry experts and vendors in the digital preservation and archiving field. We're excited by the depth of speakers and topics, and the energy from the community in putting together this exchange.

Early registration discounts expire TODAY Wednesday, 11/30. Registration is $200 through November 30, 2011, and $325 thereafter. The room block at the AT&T Executive Conference Center is available on a first come, first served basis. Alternative hotels are listed on the web site. 
 

Conference registration and hotel information is online at: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/registration/
  Speakers and Agenda The meeting will feature the best elements of past meetings, with a heavy emphasis on practitioners' concerns of preservation strategies, best practices, storage, engineering, architectures, and operation of preservation and archiving systems, at scale. The Austin meeting will feature keynotes by: 

• Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research
• Jay Boisseau, Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
• Jay Verkler, CEO of Family Search
• Mike Wash, CIO of NARA

and in depth sessions on...

• Digital Preservation Bootcamp -- an optional, introductory session on digital preservation issues, concepts and tools
• Longterm Digital Preservation Storage Futures
• Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures
• Practitioners Knowledge Exchange 
• Lightning Talks "from the Field"
• Domain Deep Dive: Media Preservation
• Research Data: Management, Preservation and Archiving
• Governance, Audit, Standards & Maturity Models
• Supercomputing & Digital Preservation
• Cloud-Based Preservation Services

A full agenda for the meeting is below. 
  The Oracle Storage Archive Manager (SAM) User Group will be holding a separate, free meeting on Tuesday, January 10 at the conference center. Contact Art Pasquinelli <art.pasquinelli@oracle.com> for details.    Sponsors  Special thanks to our sponsors for making this vendor-independent PASIG possible (Family Search, Microsoft Research, Tessella, and Oracle), as well as the conference hosts, University of Texas Libraries, Texas Digital Library, and Stanford University. 
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  PASIG Austin - Full Agenda as of November 28, 2011 Final times and speakers to be confirmed.
Day 1: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
  8:00 AM Registration
8:30 AM
Bootcamp Welcome

Digital Preservation Bootcamp
Training in concepts, issues, tools, strategies & approaches for Digital Preservation and Archiving. This half day block of training sessions will focus on an introduction to the field and needs in digital preservation, and give attendees a foundation of concepts, terminology, standards and tools used broadly in the field. This half day of “Digital Preservation 101” is open to practitioners of all levels, but will be targeted specifically for those looking to gain exposure to the field. 

  Led by William Kilbride (Digital Preservation Coalition) and Don Post (IMERGE Consulting) with Tom Cramer, David Giaretta, Mark Evans, and other invited tutors.  Digital Preservation -- Things I wish someone had told me before I started Digital Preservation in theory and practice The Same But Different: data storage, business continuity management and preservation OAIS and Emerging Standards: what does success look like?  Round Table Wrangling Digital Chaos: characterisation and ingest Preservation Metadata: it's not just for finding things How to Avoid Reinventing the Wheel: procurement and outsourcing Round Table discussion   Noon
Registration & Lunch

1 PM - PASIG Begins

PASIG Welcome & Introduction to Steering Group Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist - Stanford University
1:15 PM 
Long-term Digital Preservation Storage Futures
A state-of-the-art review of storage technology and industry trends with a focus on applying these developments to the unique needs of digital preservation and archiving, and systems at scale. Speakers will include: Raymond Clarke, Introduction & Chair  Senior Enterprise Storage Consultant/Long-term Digital Preservation Strategist - Oracle Corporation Inaugural Vice Chair and on-going Board Member of the former SNIA Data Management Forum

Leah Schoeb Chair, SNIA Green Storage Initiative Performance Specialist & Sr. Technical Marketing Manager - VMware, Inc   Michael Petersen Founder, past President and Chief Strategy Advocate for SNIA Cloud Long-term Retention Standards Strategists Information Services Consultant, Author - Imerge Consulting   Chris Wood Marketing Analyst and Author Senior Product & Solutions Development Specialist - Oracle Corporation   Gary Francis Senior Director, Storage - Oracle Corporation

3:45 PM 
Preservation Research, Breakthroughs and Futures
Current developments and trends in digital preservation research and practice.  

SCAPE -- Scalable Preservation Environments Bram Van der Werf, Executive Director - Open Planets Foundation

New Formats for Preservation Microsoft Research

Preservation Best Practices - Now and Future Don Post - iMerge Consulting

4:45 - 5:30 PM
PASIG Keynote
Plenary - Jay Boisseau, Director of TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center
Under Jay Boisseau's leadership, TACC has grown in size and stature to become one of the leading academic advanced computing centers in the US. Boisseau initiated a strong and growing research and development program at TACC while enhancing the computational resources to provide world-class capabilities, culminating in the recent award to TACC of the largest NSF award in UT Austin history: $59 million to acquire one of the most powerful computing system in the world in 2007 and to support US open research for four years.

  Evening Reception, AT&T Executive Center
  Day 2: Thursday, January 12

8:30 AM
Jay Verkler, Family Search (TBC)
“Putting it all together for content that matters.” 
 

9:15 AM
Preservation & Archiving Architectures and Operations: Practitioners Knowledge Exchange.
Structured presentation and comparison of preservation systems design and operation. Detailed overviews of PASIG community members' systems, operating practices, and lessons learned. Family Search - Preservation Systems at Scale    Library of Congress - NAVCC - Carl Watts

Novant Health Care - Robert Dick   The French National Library (BnF) SPAR: From Design to Operations  Thomas Ledoux - Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)

11 AM
Lightning Talks
Participatory presentations on late breaking developments, compelling breakthroughs or burning issues from the PASIG Community (archives & industry; practitioners and thought-leaders).

Noon 
Lunch

1 PM
Domain Deep Dive: Media Preservation

Preservation of Audiovisual Material as the National Cultural Heritage Institute Ernst Van Velzen, CIO - Dutch Sound and Vision Institute   Technical, Structural and Preservation Metadata for Digital Media Preservation  Kara van Malssen, Senior Consultant - AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (AVPS)   Media Preservation at Indiana: Splicing Together the Scholarly Data Archive, AV Materials and Institutional Infrastructure Jon Dunn, Kurt Seiffert - University of Indiana  

2:00 PM 
Research Data Management, Archiving and Preservation

Data Management Planning Reagan Moore - University of North Carolina   UCSD's Research Cyberinfrastructure for Curation and Preservation David Minor - San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego   Commodity Services for Hosting Research Databases:  A Case Study in BRISSkit (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Software Services) Dr. Jonathan Tedds, Senior Research Liaison Manager Astronomical Surveys & e-Research, University of Leicester   Data Management Planning and Digital Curation Services California Digital Library  

3:45 PM
Governance, Audit, Standards and Maturity
    

Don Post, Introduction & Session Chair   Measuring Capacity for Digital Preservation: A Maturity Model Dr. Charles Dollar   Standards and Best Practices for Digital Preservation: What's Next David Giaretta - Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science Network  

4:30 PM
Closing Plenary
Mike Wash - NARA CIO 

6:30 - 9 PM 

Dinner, Texas State History Museum

Day 3: Friday, January 13

8:30 AM 
Plenary - Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research.
Gordon is a principal researcher in the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Laboratory, working in the San Francisco Laboratory. His interests include extreme life-logging, digital lives, preserving everything in cyberspace, and cloud computing as a new computer class and platform. He proselytizes Jim Gray’s Fourth Paradigm of Science.

  9:15 AM 
Digital Preservation & Supercomputing
The intersection and opportunities of supercomputing facilities and services with digital preservation and archiving. CINES: Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data Olivier Rouchon - Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur (CINES)   Scientific Data Repositories and Cyberinfrastructure at NERSC Jason Hick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   Supercomputing for Mass Digitization and Preservation  Jozef Dzivak, Director and CIO, Conservation and Digitalization Center - National Library of Slovakia   Digital Preservation and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Dan Stanzione - TACC  

11 AM
Cloud-Based Preservation Platforms and Services
Tapping cloud-based services for local preservation needs in storage, computing and services.

DuraCloud Direct-to-Researcher (DTR) Preservation Services Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer - DuraCloud   Cloud-based Services for Preservation Natasha Milic-Frayling - Microsoft Research   Cloud Services Implementation -- A Proof of Concept Mark Evans, Tessella   SDSC Cloud Storage Services Richard Moore, Deputy Director - San Diego Supercomputer Center   SNIA's Cloud Archive & Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)  Mark Carlson, Chair, SNIA Technical Working Committee Cloud Technology Standards and Strategies Consultant - Oracle Corporation  

12:30 PM
Lunch

1:30 PM
Optional Open Sessions & Parallel Tracks

  - Working Groups for Domains - Continued discussions in Media, Research Data, Formats, Storage - Self-organizing working groups for Medical, Government, Corporate archives - Vendor Product Demos & Consultations - PASIG Steering Group Wrap Up & Future Plans  

Ithaca, NY The next meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be held Jan. 11-13 in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

Meeting web site: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/
Registration (early registration ends on November 30): http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/registration/
Preliminary agenda: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/program/

PASIG is co-sponsored by Stanford University and is open to institutions and commercial organizations interested in sharing practical experiences, successes, pain points, and potential topics for more collaboration. Topics include:

• Comparison of high-level OAIS architectures, services-oriented architecture work, and use cases
• Sharing of best practices and software code
• Cooperation on standard, open, ‘in-a-box’ solutions around repository technologies
• Review of storage architectures and trends and their relation to preservation and archiving architectures and eResearch data set management
• Discussion of the uses of commercial third party and community-developed solutions

Edinburgh, Scotland The University of Edinburgh Information Services, EDINA, and the Digital Curation Centre are delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh has been selected to host the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) July 9-13th July, 2012.

The call for proposals will be available from the conference web site soon: or2012.ed.ac.uk

The University George Square Campus is located in the centre of Edinburgh a short distance from the iconic Edinburgh Castle in the Old Town and numerous attractions, venues, restaurants and pubs.

Open Repositories is run by an international steering committee of experts, and has been the pre-eminent conference for repository managers, researchers and developers to share developments across national boundaries and technical platforms since 2006. OR 2011 was hosted at the University of Texas, Austin USA; OR 2010 was hosted in Madrid.

The theme and title of the 2012 conference at Edinburgh - Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out - reflects the current move towards open content, ‘augmented content’, distributed systems, microservices and data delivery infrastructures. Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) will chair the Programme Committee.

The conference will feature both general conference sessions and user group meetings for the three main open source repository platforms: DSpace, Fedora, and EPrints.  There will also be a strand for the popular ‘Repository Fringe’, an informal, creative gathering of repository managers and developers which has been hosted at the University of Edinburgh each year since 2008 – to coincide with the internationally well known Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Whether integrated into external research, or teaching and learning workflows, repositories form a key component to ensure that digital output within academic institutions can be accessed more widely. They are changing the nature of scholarly communication across universities, research laboratories, libraries and publishers. Repositories are now being deployed across sectors (education, research, science, cultural heritage) and at all levels (national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal). The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues: across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities.

The University of Edinburgh retains a unique position in the UK’s repository landscape, serving as home to:

• The Digital Curation Centre, the UK’s leading hub of expertise and national focus for research and development into digital curation. The DCC promotes good practice and training in the management of all research outputs in digital format. See http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ for more.

• EDINA, the JISC-funded national data centre at the University, supporting all universities and colleges across the UK. EDINA delivers a range of online data services including a number of repository initiatives: Open Access Repository Junction, OpenDepot.org, and ShareGeo Open. See http://edina.ac.uk/ for more.

• The Digital Library Section and Edinburgh University Data Library serve researchers and students at the University as part of its Information Services. See http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/organisation
  • The Data Library provides research data support for university researchers and hosts the Edinburgh DataShare repository service for researchers to deposit and share research data.
  • DLS supports repositories of research publications to support the University’s Open Access Publications Policy and is currently implementing a Current Research Information System (CRIS). DLS also provides technical and administrative support to the Scottish Digital Library Consortium (SDLC), which provides repository services to universities across Scotland.

• The University’s School of Informatics supports IDEALab, a virtual laboratory that facilitates prototyping of novel applications of state-of-art informatic technologies, forming part of the New Institute for eResearch. See http://idea.ed.ac.uk/IDEA/Welcome.html for more.

For further information visit URL: or2012.ed.ac.uk or email: or2012@ed.ac.uk; Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories

Washington, DC Please join SPARC on November 15 for a review of Open Access Week 2011. Participants worldwide will come together for an online discussion to share successes, challenges, and great ideas taken from this year's celebration.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
1:00 – 2:00PM Eastern
Registration is free, but required. RSVP by November 14 at http://sparc.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=100.

Open Access Week, a global event just concluding its fifth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access to research and scholarship, to share ideas with colleagues, and to inspire wider participation in establishing Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research. Universities, colleges, research institutes, funding agencies, libraries, and think tanks have used Open Access Week as a platform to host faculty votes on campus open-access policies, to issue reports on the societal and economic benefits of Open Access, to commit new funds in support of open-access publication, and more. Open Access Week is organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

Register to participate and learn more about what you can do at openaccessweek.org.

Seattle, WA The Code4lib conference was born in a November 2005 chatroom discussion. The entusiastic code4lib community has continued to host the conference annually since then. The 2012 Conference will be held in Seattle Feb. 6-9, 2012.

Read the 2012 hosting proposal here: http://sites.google.com/site/code4lib2012seattle/

Washington, DC The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2011 Membership Meeting will be held December 12-13, 2011 at the Arlington, VA Crystal Gateway Marriott.

CNI member organizations meet twice annually for membership meetings to explore new technologies, content, and applications; to further collaboration; to analyze technology policy issues; and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects.

The deadline for registration is Nov. 11, 2011.