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Winchester, MA On November 15, William Michener, Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives at the University of New Mexico presented “DataONE: Tools and Approaches for Supporting the Data Life Cycle” to participants in the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute. In this webinar, Bill discussed how to help researchers address the key challenges with the data life cycle: planning, presevation, discovery and innovation.

Winchester, MA  Looking back over ten years of DSpace development with active community participation @mire noted in a recent blog post that on Nov 18, 2002 Robert Tansley sent a message to the OAI-general list announcing "Version 1.0 of the DSpace institutional repository software platform is available..."

Read the blog post here: http://bit.ly/UaB2eT

From Adam Soroka, the University of Virginia Library, on behalf of the Fedora repository committers

Charlottesville, VA  The Fedora repository committers have cut a new release: 3.6.2. It's a small set of changes primarily consisting of fixes to recently discovered bugs. Please find release notes here:

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA36/Fedora+Repository+3.6.2+Release+Notes

From Karen Meijer-Kline, Communications and Member Services Officer, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Simon Fraser University Library

Burnaby, BC, Canada  The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are pleased to announce the Fourth International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, which will be held from August 19 - 21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Winchester, MA  A recording of the Nov. 15, 2012 "Hydra Technical Deep Dive" question and answer session with Matt Zumwalt is available at http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.

Additionally, below are some useful links from today's session:

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce an agreement with Registered Service Provider MediaShelf (http://yourmediashelf.com/) to hire Edwin Shin (http://yourmediashelf.com/who-we-are/edwin-shin/) on an interim basis as Fedora Project Lead.  Eddie will work with DuraSpace and a committee of stakeholders who recently got together to define a software project for making substantial improvements to Fedora through mid-year.