Events

Utrecht, Netherlands On Sept. 9, 2011 EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-OA are hosting an online workshop to focus on methods for setting up DSpace and Fedora repositories for open access research literature, scientific data, theses, reports and multimedia. This free online workshop "Open Access Repositories with DSpace and Fedora" will be held: Friday September 9, 10.00 - 11.00 UK time (11.00 – 12.00 CEST). Program and registration details are available here:

London, UK The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), The British Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition invite you to attend their 3rd joint web archiving workshop on October 7, 2011, at the British Library Conference Centre. The previous 2 workshops were held in 2006 and 2009.

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada Registration is now open for this year’s Red Island Repository Institute, September 17-23. We are planning to have 2 streams this year: Digital Humanities and Science Data. Come and learn about cutting-edge repository technologies with like minded folk on beautiful Prince Edward Island at beautiful Dalvay by the Sea, which we have booked exclusively for this event.

More information: http://islandora.ca/riri

From Kim Bui-Burton, Director of Community Services and Director of the Monterey Public Library, City of Monterey

From Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

Washington, DC SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced it will host its first North American meeting on Open Access in 2012. The first of its kind, the event will expand on the successful biennial SPARC Digital Repositories meeting.

Save the date: Kansas City, March 11-13, 2012

From the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services

From Julia Flanders, Director, Women Writers Project, Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library

Nottingham, UK The latest event for the Repository Support Project: "Repositories and CRIS (Current Research Information Systems): Working smartly together. Conference and Software Exhibition," will take place at Nottingham University Park Conference Centre on July 19, 2011. This one-day event is free of charge to participants.

http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/repositories-and-cris-systems-working-smartly-together/

From Michael J, Giarlo, The Pennsylvania State University

Those of you who have been following the HBO series, GAME OF THRONES, are probably familiar with the phrase, "Winter is coming."  Well, CURATEcamp is coming!  And without monstrous wolves, ice zombies, and scheming knights. CURATEcamp is a series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation.

Slots for #CURATEcamp 2011 (August 15-16, Stanford Univ., $125 for registration/lodging/meals) are starting to fill up.

Winchester, MA If you plan to travel to the American Library Association annual conference being held in New Orleans, LA, June 23-28, please take note of two panel discussions that will include presentations about DuraCloud. Details are below:

"Updates on Cloud Computing Uses for Library Services"
Saturday, June 25 8-10am
Convention Center Room #285

"It's all Geek to Me: Demystifying Digital Preservation Systems"
Sunday, June 26 8-10am
Convention Center Room #342