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Ithaca, NY DuraCloud for Research (DfR), the cloud-based open source data storage and management project aimed at meeting the specific needs of working scientists, researchers and data managers has launched a web site on the DuraSpace wiki:

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DURACLOUDDTR/DuraCloud+for+Research

The web site provides:

Nairobi, Kenya The XXth Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) will be held June 4-8, 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme "Information for Sustainable Development in a Digital Environment" highlights opportunities for information professionals in Africa to take advantage of the recent transformation from print to digital information.

Ithaca, NY Anyone who has clicked on an app knows that the way news and information is documented, shared and delivered has undergone a big change. If something unusual happens you are as likely go to YouTube to see if there are audio or video first-hand accounts as you are to read a newspaper. Reporting and sharing general information about what's going on in the world from highly produced films to on-the-fly videos has become a 24/7 event in which everyone with a phone can participate.

From Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud (http://DuraCloud.org) team will host the second in a new series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud features NEXT Wednesday, March 28 at 12:30pm ET. Wednesday's brown bag session will detail the media streaming capabilities in DuraCloud and how you can use them to embed media files into your own applications.

From the ACRL 2013 Panel Sessions Committee

From Jared Lyle, ICPSR, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI  What kinds of curation services might help prepare data for deposit in digital repositories?  What kind of tools might ICPSR provide to local repositories to support local data processing?  We would like to hear your ideas.
 

Ithaca, NY The libraries of great institutions of learning often house widely accessible digital collections alongside valuable physical collections. It is therefore no surprise that Harvard University Library features a remarkable selection of 33 web-accessible collections available online in words, images and annotations transporting web travelers to past times, taking them on esoteric adventures, and presenting them with varied scientific and cultural information.

From Tim Donohue on behalf of the DSpace Committers.

Ithaca, NY I'd like to formally announce a change to the DSpace Release Numbering Scheme, as well as the upcoming 3.0 release.

In the past, we have had a "three-tiered" numbering scheme ([major].[minor].[subminor]), e.g. 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2. However, over the years, we've heard feedback that this numbering scheme could be confusing, as it was unclear which releases contained brand new features and which releases only contained bug fixes.