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Ithaca, NY Those of us who have navigated through mazes of menu options online or on the phone to find information would agree that it's great when you are fortunate enough to find a real person waiting on the other end of a communcation to answer questions.

Ithaca, NY The Third Annual VIVO Conference will be held in Miami, Florida August 22-24, 2012 to help promote scholarly collaboration and research discovery.

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From USETDA 2012 Conference Organizing Committee and USETDA Board of Directors

Community-based solution to help Internet2 members preserve scholarly, scientific and cultural heritage for future generations

Arlington, VA DuraSpace and Internet2 announced today at the Spring 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting that Internet2 members now have automatic access to DuraCloud [http://duracloud.org], a trusted service for archiving and managing content in the cloud featuring one-click creation of many copies, in multiple locations with several providers.

From Bonnie J. Smith, University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries; Maria A. Jankowska, UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library; Marianne A. Buehler,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Las Vegas, Nevada Please accept this invitation to participate in the Library as Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability survey [link: https://academictrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8Ds9A1yindrZLlG].

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.

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!

From Jared Lyle, ICPSR, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI  What kinds of curation services might help prepare data for deposit in digital repositories?  What kind of tools might ICPSR provide to local repositories to support local data processing?  We would like to hear your ideas.
 

Ithaca, NY In September of 2011 the Islandora and Discovery Garden teams hosted the annual Red Island Repository Institute (RIRI) on Prince Edward Island in Canada. The six-day event featured two tracks focused on digital humanities and science data.