Events

New York, NY The Open Video Conference (http://www.openvideoconference.org/) is a summit to explore the future of video on the web hosted by the Open Video Alliance. It’s about building open source and open standards for online video, but it’s also about some larger questions: With so much free stuff out there, how will creators get paid? Who knows what you watch? Where is the medium going?
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From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, D.C. Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access (OA), to share ideas with colleagues, and to inspire wider participation in establishing Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research.

Ithaca, NY Join Ben Bosman, CTO @mire for a free one-hour web seminar on September 8, 2010 at 11:00 EDT. He will explain how @mire’s open-source version of the “Content and Usage Analysis” DSpace module  released with DSpace 1.6 can work for you. The DSpace 1.6 statistics solution offers logging of usage data including bitstream downloads, item display page visits, and collection and community homepage visits.

Edinburgh, Scotland The RLUK Conference 2010, co- hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland, will take place in Edinburgh from November 10 - 12, 2010.
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/597

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

Timisoara, Romania The IADIS WWW/Internet International Conference 2010 (http://www.internet-conf.org/)will be held in Timisoara, Romania October 14-17. The deadline for submission of papers is September 3, 2010.
• Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Mark Frydenberg, Senior Lecturer, Bentley University, USA
Molly Holzschlag, Web Evangelist, Developer Relations, Opera Software, USA

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, DC Proposals are now being invited to the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies and strategies are showcased in engaging, informative rapid-fire presentations. SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, is hosting the next installment of this popular meeting on November 8 & 9, 2010 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

BSD City, Indonesia DEIT 2011 will be held in Bali, Indonesia March 15-17, 2011 and aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions in data engineering and internet technology. All papers published in the DEIT 2011 proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xploreand indexed in both Ei Compendex and ISTP.

From Valorie Hollister, Director of Community Development, DSpace Project, DuraSpace
Ithaca, NY There will be a one day DSpace User Group Meeting on November 10, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, immediately following the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0513.shtml) on November 8 and 9.
A big thank you to @mire (http://atmire.com/), a Registered DSpace Service Provider, who is sponsoring the DSpace meeting.

From Matthias Razum, Head ePublishing and eScience, FIZ Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany Development & Applied ResearchFIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library cordially invite you to participate in the eSciDoc Days 2010 to be held on Tuesday, November 16, and Wednesday, November 17, 2010, hosted by the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark.