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From the JCDL 2013 Co-chairs J. Stephen Downie,
University of Illinois and Robert H. McDonald,
Indiana University

Winchester, MA  Looking back over ten years of DSpace development with active community participation @mire noted in a recent blog post that on Nov 18, 2002 Robert Tansley sent a message to the OAI-general list announcing "Version 1.0 of the DSpace institutional repository software platform is available..."

Read the blog post here: http://bit.ly/UaB2eT

From Karen Meijer-Kline, Communications and Member Services Officer, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Simon Fraser University Library

Burnaby, BC, Canada  The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are pleased to announce the Fourth International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, which will be held from August 19 - 21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Winchester, MA  A recording of the Nov. 15, 2012 "Hydra Technical Deep Dive" question and answer session with Matt Zumwalt is available at http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.

Additionally, below are some useful links from today's session:

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce an agreement with Registered Service Provider MediaShelf (http://yourmediashelf.com/) to hire Edwin Shin (http://yourmediashelf.com/who-we-are/edwin-shin/) on an interim basis as Fedora Project Lead.  Eddie will work with DuraSpace and a committee of stakeholders who recently got together to define a software project for making substantial improvements to Fedora through mid-year.

Winchester, MA  A recording and presentation slides of the Nov.

Columbus, Ohio  The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group invites proposals for presentations at its meeting at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, January 27th from 8:30 to 10:00 am.
 
Presentations focusing on current topics and practices that relate to the role of preservation metadata in digital preservation are preferred. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
 
• Tools and workflows for capturing preservation metadata
• Tools and strategies for implementing preservation metadata

From Anthi Katsirikou, QQML Conference co-chair

Rome, Italy  The 5th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) will be held at "La Sapienza" University, in Rome June 4-7, 2013. Proceedings will focus on new methodological developments and practical applications for libraries.

Information about how to submit to the QQML Conference 2013 may be found here: http://www.isast.org.