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Winchester, MA  If you are traveling to Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island in Canada for the Eight International Conference on Open Repositories next month (July 8-12) you may be interested in these DuraSpace-related workshops, presentations and meetings.

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr, Publisher, Digital Scholarship

Houston, TX  Digital Scholarship has released version 3 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography. This selective  bibliography includes over 230 English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.

From Mark Leggott, OR2013 Conference Chair, Sarah Shreeves, OR2013 Program Co-Chair and Jon Dunn, OR2013 Program Co-Chair

Heverlee, Belgium  During the morning session of the recent DSpace Boot Camp held on May 28 in Ghent, Belgium, Pieter Van der Elst walked participants through the DSpace directory structure and shared a few customization best practices. Bram Luyten gave a primer on XML User Interface customization.

Recordings, slides and notes: http://atmire.com/website/?q=content/dspace-bootcamp-recordings-slides-and-notes

Winchester, MA  On June 11 Brian Lowe and Jim Blake from Cornell University presented, “VIVO Technical Deep Dive.”  This was the third and final webinar in the Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking” curated by Dean Krafft. 
 

From the DSpace Committers Group

Winchester, MA  The DSpace committers team is delighted to announce a new member to the group: Kostas Stamatis from The National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation (EKT / NHRF) in Greece. Please join us in welcoming him!

St. Louis, MO  The 2013 VIVO Conference is set for August 14-16 in St. Louis. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director at CNI, and David Wood, Chief Technology Officer at 3 Round Stones, will be speakers at the Conference. There's still time to take advantage of early bird registration rates (June 21) and submit a poster (June 12): http://bit.ly/12AUGrA

Winchester, MA  On June 4 DuraSpace offered the second webinar in the Hot Topics DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.”  Alex Viggio, University of Colorado, Boulder, Steven McCauley, Brown University, Julia Trimmer, Duke University and Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College presented, “Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke, and Weill Cornell Medical College.”  The webinar succeeded in showing both the commonalitie,s and in some ways, quite different approaches to VIVO at each of the i

From Mark Leggott, Conference Chair, Sarah Shreeves, Program Chair and Jon Dunn, Program Chair

Charlottetown PEI, Canada  The premiere conference for digital repositories is being held in Charlottetown PEI, July 8-12. I encourage you to register and book your accommodation as soon as possible so you can join your colleagues for a week of stimulating discussion. The full schedule of events is now online and we have 2 great keynotes: