Data curation

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! 

We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline has been extended until Monday, March 4th!

From the USETDA Board

Claremont, CA  Proposals for presentations, panel sessions and posters are invited for the upcoming U.S Electronic Thesis and Dissertation conference to be held in Claremont, California (near Disneyland resort, beaches & Hollywood) July 24-26, 2013. 

Conference registration is now open - for complete information visit http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=1730

From the Repository Fringe Organising Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland  The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Edinburgh University Library are delighted to announce that after its temporary incorporation into Open Repositories 2012 the Repository Fringe will return as a standalone event this year to be held in the Informatics Forum from 31 July to 2 August 2013. Further sponsors and supporters to be announced.

From Jordon Andrade and Stacy Konkiel, Florida State University

From 
program co-chairs:
 Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced!

Winchester, MA  Though unafilliated with the successful Public Library of Science (PLOS), the new Open Library of Humanities (OLH) initiative has been inspired by the PLOS open megajournal model–if the sciences can do it why not the humanities and social sciences? The OHL mission is to provide a platform for Open Access publishing that is:

• Reputable and respected through rigorous peer review

From Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown, PEI Canada  The Islandora team is pleased to report that plans for the upcoming Islandora Camp Europe are coming along nicely. With the new Islandora 6 and 7 releases due in the coming weeks we are sure to have a lot to talk about when we gather in March. The current agenda is available:

http://europe.islandora.ca/program/session-schedule

Mountain View, CA  On February 12 8:30am PT  "Digital Preservation in Theory and Practice" PASIG will offer the first in a series of monthly webinars aimed at sharing PASIG content and insights beyond the annual meeting (the next meeting will be held May 22-24 in Washington, DC).

From Marianne Smith, Director, Internet2

Washington, DC  The Call for Participation for the 2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting is open! This includes calls for Proposals and Working Meetings.

Call for Participation: http://events.internet2.edu/2013/spring-mm/calls.cfm

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