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From Bram Luyten, @mire

Is your institution using the DSpace Manakin XML User interface (XMLUI)? Are you challenged by the XMLUI learning curve? Our free developer bootcamp can give you the kickstart you need. Changing colours, moving around page elements and more: we got it covered.
               

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From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next PASIG webinar will be "An Introduction to the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and its Digital Preservation Initiatives" by Leslie Johnston of the Library of Congress on Monday, April 15 at 11:30am EST.

To register go to:

Ithaca, NY  The Call for Papers and Call for Applications for the 2013 VIVO Conference are now available and we look forward to hearing about the good work you're doing in the interest areas listed below—and beyond!

The Fourth Annual VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis from Aug. 14-16, 2013: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/vivo2013/

Call for Papers

From Thomas Krichel on behalf of The The OAI Organizing Committee

Geneva, Switzerland  The OAI8 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on June 19-21, 2013. The Programme can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=211600.

There are six plenary sessions on:

• Technical developments
• Metrics

Winchester, MA  There are plenty of questions that come up as you make the decision to preserve digital content in the cloud—any cloud. What's the process like? Can I control my content in the cloud? What can I do with my content once it's in the cloud? How do I retrieve it? What are the advantages of replicating content with multiple providers? What does it mean to synchronize content?

Charlottetown, CA  Spring has arrived and it's time to finalize your plans to visit "Repository Island"–otherwise known as Prince Edward Island, Canada–for the Eight International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2013) to be held July 8-12, 2013. You may register here: http://or2013.net/. PEI is a popular summer vacation destination so make your travel plans soon!

OR2013 web site: http://or2013.net/

Winchester, MA  Rhodes College is a small liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee.

Ghent, Belgium  Registration is open for a joint OpenAIRE/LIBER workshop that will explore where the library sits in relation to supporting research data management, and what future expectations for libraries might be. The workshop is an ELAG (European Library Automation Group) 2013 free pre-conference event to be held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-31, 2013.

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