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Ithaca, NY Governments all over the world are finding that access to government information is a key part of engaging stakeholders—members of government, officials, citizens, businesses and more—in using data to leverage economic opportunity. The Parliment of Thailand made the decision to implement a DSpace (http://dspace.org) repository to meet national requirements for access, space, scalability and preservation:

Ithaca, NY On Jan. 11, 2012 Chris Wilper, DuraSpace Technical Lead and Developer, gave a web seminar presentation about how to easily back-up and restore Fedora (http://fedora-commons.org) repository content in DuraCloud (http://duracloud.org) with the CloudSync (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/CLOUDSYNC/Fedora+CloudSync+Project) utility.

From Atifa Rawan and Yan Han, University of Arizona Libraries

From Kevin Ashley, Director Digital Curation Centre and OR12 Conference Program Chair, on behalf of the programme committee and the local organizing committee of OR12

Silver Spring, MD Registration is open for the third annual ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) summit that will take place on March 22-23, 2012 in New Orleans at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, held in cooperation with the ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit.

Web site: http://rdap12.posterous.com/

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) extended its DSpace IR (http://mahider.ilri.org) to include different groups independently on the same platform when developers realized that each community could have its own URL, look and feel, and administration using DSpace.

Customer requested features improve content control in the cloud

Ithaca, NY The newest DuraCloud release provides fine-grained access control over your content in the cloud with significant user administration improvements:

• Improved access control–Account administrators can now create access control lists indicating which users and groups have read and/or write access to the content within a DuraCloud space;

New York, NY If you are looking to increase your video views with better Video SEO, this Webinar will explain the challenges and techniques for getting video content found and properly indexed by search engines. The webinar will also feature a hands-on walkthrough of SEO friendly video publishing with Kaltura, and give you a sneak peek at what Kaltura and Google have planned for 2012.

Please join us for an exciting webinar and your chance to ask our experts questions during Q&A time.

Boulder, CO Early registration ends on January 17 for the ELI Annual Meeting, "Taking the Pulse: Connecting, Assessing, and Innovating," where a matrix of themes that capture the key opportunities and challenges facing the teaching and learning community will be explored. The meeting will be held February 13–15, 2012 
at the Hilton Austin in Austin, TX, and Online

from Barbara Kirsop and Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT)

The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) supports scholarly publishing in the developing world and facilitates access to research information. EPT recently announced the winners of a new annual award made to individuals working in developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the cause of open access and the free exchange of research findings.