Data curation

Ithaca, NY You are invited to attend the web event, "Using DuraCloud for Archiving & Preservation,"  to be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 from 1:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Presenters include Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace Chief Executive Officer & DuraCloud Project Director and Bryan Beecher, Director of Computing & Network Services, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

From Priscilla Caplan on behalf of the PREMIS Editorial Committee

Ithaca, NY If you are traveling to EDUCAUSE 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia October 18-21, please mark two October 19 DuraSpace events on your calendar:
 

From Heather G. Morrison, Simon Fraser University School of Communication

Washington, DC The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Outreach group wants to collect stories about data loss and preservation. If you've had your heart broken or uplifted by data loss or preservation, please fill out the form at http://j.mp/datastories, and/or please pass on the call for stories below. Distribute widely, as they used to say on listservs! There's no deadline, but we'll probably be taking a look at what we get in November.

Dublin, Ireland The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks proposals from candidate host organisations for the 2013 and 2014 Open Repositories Annual Conferences. Preference will be given to North American hosts for OR2013, and to European hosts for OR2014. Proposals from all geographic areas will, however, are given consideration.

Important Dates

The Committee is accepting proposals to host OR2013 through October 28, 2011. Please submit initial expressions of interest by October 7, 2011.

Limerick, Ireland Submissions are invited for the the Fourth Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012), to be held May 22 - 25, 2012, in Limerick, Ireland. The Fifth QQML 2013 International Conference will be organized in Rome, Italy.

Conference web site: http://www.isast.org/

Ithaca, NY Determining how many resources will be managed in an institutional repository is a key point in determining how to set it up and which technologies to use. A discussion on the DSpace users list provided information about DSpace repositories with large numbers of items. The discussion began with the simple question, "Anyone know what is the largest repository of DSpace and how many items it has?"