Data curation

From Michael J, Giarlo, The Pennsylvania State University

Those of you who have been following the HBO series, GAME OF THRONES, are probably familiar with the phrase, "Winter is coming."  Well, CURATEcamp is coming!  And without monstrous wolves, ice zombies, and scheming knights. CURATEcamp is a series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation.

Slots for #CURATEcamp 2011 (August 15-16, Stanford Univ., $125 for registration/lodging/meals) are starting to fill up.

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

Redwood City, CA I would like to take this opportunity to announce that Stanford's Tom Cramer will now take the helm of the PASIG and will help guide it into an independent organization status. I will continue to be formally involved, as will Mike Keller, and continuing and new steering committee members (TBD). Expect to see a posting from Tom on the PASIG website in the next several days.

Winchester, MA Do you wonder about how cloud storage and computing might work for your organization? Sign up for a FREE DuraCloud trial account and find out just how easy and efficicient it can be with DuraCloud.

Sign up here: http://duracloud.org/trial_account

Austin, TX Bright sun outside and and cool temperatures inside greeted more than 30 participants in the Hydra Workshop offered by Matt Zumwalt, Media Shelf, with help from his friends, on June 7, 2011 in Austin as part of OR11 pre-conference events.

 With thanks to Mark Leggott for reporting these updates.

The aim of the POCOS (Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia) project is to deliver a series of three symposia at locations across the United Kingdom at which global thought-leaders in research into the Preservation of Complex Objects will share and thereby extend the body of knowledge on this topic.

http://www.pocos.org/

The new issue of EDUCAUSE Review is now available on line: http://www.educause.edu/er. This issue includes:

features

Seattle, WA Read this whitepaper from the Amazon Web Services Team to learn how companies are finding significant cost savings, faster time to market, and more flexibility by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.

Ceredilla, Spain The 8th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2011) Organizing Committee has made the program for the July 10-16 event available on line. SSSW 2011 will be held in Ceredilla, Spain (near Madrid) at the Universidad Politècnica de Madrid's student house.

http://sssw.org/2011/index.php

Ithaca, NY If you are traveling to the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) in Austin, Texas next week please stop by the DuraSpace table where we will be conducting ongoing DuraCloud demonstrations. We look forward to seeing members of our open source communities in celebration of another great year.

Along with conference presentations from many DSpace and Fedora community members, these DuraSpace-related events may be of interest: