Data curation

From Marianne Smith, Director, Internet2

Washington, DC The Call for Participation for the Fall 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting is now open! This includes calls for Proposals, Working Meetings, and Sponsors.

Ithaca, NY On your next digital break click here to be inspired: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/collections/.

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.

http://vivoweb.org/conference2012

About VIVO

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

On April 24, 2012 the Hydra developers "who make Hydra happen" released Active Fedora 4.0.0 and HydraHead 4.0.0

The gems are at:

https://rubygems.org/gems/active-fedora/versions/4.0.0
https://rubygems.org/gems/hydra-head/versions/4.0.0

and supporting libraries at:

From USETDA 2012 Conference Organizing Committee and USETDA Board of Directors

Ithaca, NY In a recent Campus Technology article (May 1, "DuraCloud Offers Redundant Storage Across Multiple Cloud Providers": http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2012/05/01/DuraCloud-Offers-Redundant-Storage-Across-Multiple-Cloud-Providers.aspx?Page=3) author Alicia Brazington points out that academia is often nervous about entrusting precious and irreplacable digital assets to cloud storage providers.

From Joshua Sternfeld, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities