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Winchester, MA  On November 1, 2011 DuraSpace launched DuraCloud, a fee-based subscription service available to any organization wishing to archive and preserve their content using the cloud without locking into a single cloud provider.

From OR2013 Program Co-Chairs Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, jwd@iu.edu and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, sshreeve@illinois.edu

Winchester, MA  The 2012 DuraCloud webinars are now available for you to browse on the DuraCloud YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/duracloudvideos. Join almost 2,300 viewers who have tuned in to learn about a wide range of useful DuraCloud-related topics that include:

London, UK  "Strategically Digital" is the theme for the UK Museums Computer Group’s annual Museums on the Web Conference (UKMW12). The Conference will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on November 30, 2012.

More information here: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2012/10/26/programme-for-ukmw12/

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the collaboration between DuraSpace and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) cloud services to offer SDSC cloud as part of the DuraCloud SaaS. This offering provides additional preservation services and storage for researchers, students, academics, and industry users.

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

The University of Maryland Libraries, a DuraSpace Silver Sponsor and long-time user of Fedora and DSpace, are continuing to add to digitize and add valuable collection material to their repository daily.

Winchester, MA  Digitization of fragile film and video resources is the first step towards making sure they are preserved into the future. Yale University's department of Manuscripts and Archives published an example of a video from The Fortunoff Video Archive Holocaust Testimonies, a historic collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, to demonstrate how important it is not only to digitize video resources, but to do it as soon as possible.