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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 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

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!

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:
 

Winchester, MA  An overview of this year's Open Repositories Conference is now available online. Main track sessions include many topics of interest: repository solutions for time-based media, strategies and best practices for current issues including open access, data management, data use, innovations in repository workflows, linked data use cases, cloud-based approaches to preservation, metrics applications and much more.

Your financial support directly impacts DSpace and Fedora development to meet the changing needs of our communities.

Winchester, MA  Today the DuraSpace organization announced the launch of the 2013 Sponsorship Program encouraging users of DSpace and Fedora technologies for durable access to invest in our digital future by becoming DuraSpace sponsors. The annual campaign raises funds to support the continued advancement of the DSpace and Fedora open source software which is available free of charge. DuraSpace relies on financial support from the organizations that directly benefit from using DSpace and Fedora to continue to meet the changing needs of our communities.