Data curation

Winchester, MA  On Oct. 16 Rick Johnson and Richard Green presented “A Case Study on General Repository Applications using Hydra". This webinar is part of the Hot Topics Community Webinar Series, “Get a Head on Your Repository with Hydra End-to-End Solutions,” curated by Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist at Stanford University Libraries. 

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the recent release of Fedora 3.6 on Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET. Edwin Shin, Fedora Release Team Leader and Managing Partner and Technical Director, MediaShelf, will be presenting an overview of what's new in Fedora Repository 3.6.

From Dell Global Education Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and DuraSpace

• One of the largest public university libraries in the country uses open source software on Dell DX Object Storage Platform to manage and protect digital assets
• University lowers storage total cost of ownership with scalability to support archive growth

From Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer, DuraSpace

From Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Office of Strategic Initiatives, The Library of Congress

Washington, DC  The Levels of Preservation National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) project has posted a draft of their work for public comment on The Signal bog. We would like to invite you and your colleagues to provide feedback on this draft.

Winchester, MA  The DuraCloud team will host the sixth in a series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud on Wednesday, September 26th at 12:30pm ET. Wednesday's brown bag session will detail the ways in which DuraCloud can help you solve problems around preserving and/or providing access to content, enabling scheduled distributed off-site backups, ensuring the health of your content once it is stored in the cloud, working through the business/contractual side of choosing a cloud vendor, and much more!

DuraCloud Gives Institutions the Option to Use Academic Cloud Storage

From Diana Gonzalez, IS&T Conference Program Manager

Washington, DC  IS&T (the Society for Imaging Science and Technology) is pleased to announce the 10th Archiving Conference which will be held April 2-5, 2013 in Washington, DC. The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts is November 15, 2012.

A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at

A post by James A. Jacobs in Free Government Information (FGI), a web site that raises public awareness about the importance of government information, explains advances in access and preservation practices at Colorado State Publications Library Digital Repository.

Read the post: http://freegovinfo.info/node/3763

"The library joined The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries' Digital Repository (ADR) in 2008. There are now more than 9,500 documents in the ADR."