NDSA

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace organization and the Fedora Futures Project are pleased to announce that Andrew Woods will take over as the new Technical Lead for Fedora effective May 15, 2013. In this role he will provide technical leadership for the Fedora Futures Project. Woods joined the DuraSpace organization in early 2009 as a Fedora committer. Since then he has helped establish the D.C. Area Fedora Users Group, been a project co-lead on DuraCloud, and worked in various technical and advisory capacities within DPN, APTrust, Chronopolis, and NDSA.

Washington, DC  Launched in 2010, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is a collaborative effort among 145 government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to preserve our nation's digital resources for the benefit of present and future generations. The NDSA supports activities which advance digital stewardship in all its forms.

Secondary storage in Amazon Glacier offers customers more cost effective long-term storage options

Winchester, MA  The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) faces, "Exponential growth in storage required for the preservation of digital collections consisting of images, audio, video, text, and other formats" in pursuit of their long-standing mission:

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace Sponsorship Campaign will kick-off on May 7, 2013 to raise funds for the DSpace and Fedora projects. The annual campaign supports the continued advancement of DSpace and Fedora open source software which is available free of charge. This year DuraSpace sponsors may chose to designate funds for either DSpace or Fedora, or to support DuraSpace generally.

Winchester, MA  Join the DuraCloud team online for a brown bag session TOMORROW, April 24th at 12:30pm ET led by Tim Donohue, DSpace Technical Lead. Tim will provide details about how to preserve DSpace content with DuraCloud that will include short demonstration of how to backup content from a DSpace instance to DuraCloud via the Replication Task Suite  DSpace component add-on.

From Lisa A. Gregory, Digital Collections Manager, Digital Information Management Program State Library of North Carolina

From Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, Library of Congress
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP)

Washington, DC  The deadline for submitting a proposal for Digital Preservation 2013 is April 26. The meeting will be held July 23-25 in the Washington DC area and will bring the the broad, diverse digital preservation and stewardship community together to share achievements in the areas technical infrastructure, innovation, content collection, standardization, and outreach and education efforts.

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next PASIG webinar will be "An Introduction to the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and its Digital Preservation Initiatives" by Leslie Johnston of the Library of Congress on Monday, April 15 at 11:30am EST.

To register go to:

Winchester, MA  There are plenty of questions that come up as you make the decision to preserve digital content in the cloud—any cloud. What's the process like? Can I control my content in the cloud? What can I do with my content once it's in the cloud? How do I retrieve it? What are the advantages of replicating content with multiple providers? What does it mean to synchronize content?