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Columbus, Ohio  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.
 
Presentations focusing on current topics and practices that relate to the role of preservation metadata in digital preservation are preferred. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
 
• Tools and workflows for capturing preservation metadata
• Tools and strategies for implementing preservation metadata

From Anthi Katsirikou, QQML Conference co-chair

Rome, Italy  The 5th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) will be held at "La Sapienza" University, in Rome June 4-7, 2013. Proceedings will focus on new methodological developments and practical applications for libraries.

Information about how to submit to the QQML Conference 2013 may be found here: http://www.isast.org.

From Birgit Schmidt, OpenAIRE Scientific Manager, on behalf of the OpenAIRE team

Göttingen, Germany  On November 21-22 2012 Göttingen State and University Library will host the OpenAIRE Conference to present the results of the OpenAIRE project which supports the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Open Access Pilot.

OpenAIRE web site: http://www.openaire.eu/
Register here: http://www.openaire.eu/en/conference2012

Winchester, MA  We are pleased to offer a recording of the third and final webinar of the Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Get a Head on Your Repository with Hydra End-to-End Solutions." The presentation slides and a recording of "Hydra Technical Deep Dive" presented by Matt Zumwalt of MediaShelf are available at http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.

London, UK  "Strategically Digital" is the theme for the UK Museums Computer Group’s annual Museums on the Web Conference (UKMW12). The Conference will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on November 30, 2012.

More information here: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2012/10/26/programme-for-ukmw12/

Washington, DC  The 2013 NAGARA annual meeting will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 10-13, 2013. NAGARA will not be jointly meeting with any other associations in 2013. This year, the program will feature the following tracks: electronic records preservation, records management, management and policy, and access (social media, description, etc.). Session proposals are being sought.

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the collaboration between DuraSpace and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) cloud services to offer SDSC cloud as part of the DuraCloud SaaS. This offering provides additional preservation services and storage for researchers, students, academics, and industry users.

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

The University of Maryland Libraries, a DuraSpace Silver Sponsor and long-time user of Fedora and DSpace, are continuing to add to digitize and add valuable collection material to their repository daily.

From the DSpace 3.0 Release Team

We thank you all for your great feedback during the first round of the DSpace 3.0 Test-A-Thon! You have helped discover many bugs, some of which we have already fixed. Since we have so many great new features in 3.0, we decided to give it another round of public testing to help make it to the final 3.0 release without any significant bugs.

Winchester, MA  On October 17 Sayeed Choudhury and James L. Mullins presented “E-Research Support at Johns Hopkins University and Purdue University” to participants in the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute. In this webinar, the presenters discuss their progress towards developing a data management plan and service at their institutions. This pre-recorded webinar is part the DuraSpace Hot Topics Community Webinar Series on "Research Data Management Support" curated by E-Science Institute faculty.