media archives

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?

From Heather Morrison, Simon Frasier University

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, CNI 

Washington, DC  Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?, a project briefing presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC and Sara Snyder of the Smithsonian Institution, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/a6Qs-_51Qko
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/61522767

Winchester, MA For more than a century movie makers told stories and explained our world in moving pictures using film. The entire process–from creation promotion, distribution, preservation and archiving–has undergone a rapid technological change from traditional chemical-based film processes to all digital.

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! 

We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline has been extended until Monday, March 4th!

From the TPDL organizing committee

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital

Libraries constitutes a leading European scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. The 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) is organized by the University of Malta and it will be held in Valetta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013.

Aims and scope

From the Repository Fringe Organising Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland  The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Edinburgh University Library are delighted to announce that after its temporary incorporation into Open Repositories 2012 the Repository Fringe will return as a standalone event this year to be held in the Informatics Forum from 31 July to 2 August 2013. Further sponsors and supporters to be announced.

From 
program co-chairs:
 Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced!

Winchester, MA  Though unafilliated with the successful Public Library of Science (PLOS), the new Open Library of Humanities (OLH) initiative has been inspired by the PLOS open megajournal model–if the sciences can do it why not the humanities and social sciences? The OHL mission is to provide a platform for Open Access publishing that is:

• Reputable and respected through rigorous peer review

From Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown, PEI Canada  The Islandora team is pleased to report that plans for the upcoming Islandora Camp Europe are coming along nicely. With the new Islandora 6 and 7 releases due in the coming weeks we are sure to have a lot to talk about when we gather in March. The current agenda is available:

http://europe.islandora.ca/program/session-schedule