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Charlottetown, PEI, Canada This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! 

We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline has been extended until Monday, March 4th!

From the Repository Fringe Organising Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland  The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Edinburgh University Library are delighted to announce that after its temporary incorporation into Open Repositories 2012 the Repository Fringe will return as a standalone event this year to be held in the Informatics Forum from 31 July to 2 August 2013. Further sponsors and supporters to be announced.

From 
program co-chairs:
 Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced!

If you are traveling to code4lib join friends and colleagues at fedora4lib–the Fedora house in Chicago

An informal global library information technology community has come together at the code4lib conference since 2005 to "share approaches, techniques, and code across institutional and project divides". This year's event will be held Feb. 11-14, 2013 in Chicagp. IL (http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/).

Mountain View, CA  On February 12 8:30am PT  "Digital Preservation in Theory and Practice" PASIG will offer the first in a series of monthly webinars aimed at sharing PASIG content and insights beyond the annual meeting (the next meeting will be held May 22-24 in Washington, DC).

Summary

A group of stakeholders from the Fedora community have come together to begin the process of planning a three year software development project that will direct new resources toward a major Fedora overhaul, adding capabilities that will make Fedora the repository platform of choice for the future.  The group anticipates that improvements will include features such as greater scalability, data management support, storage flexibility, and others the community has been requesting. This new initiative is being called Fedora Futures.

From OR2013 Program Co-Chairs Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, jwd@iu.edu and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, sshreeve@illinois.edu