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Winchester, MA  The Fedora Futures team recently launched a blog entitled, Fedora Futures, aimed at telling the stories behind building the future of the Fedora repository. The first post is from  Edwin Shin, Fedora Futures Project Manager, and Tom Cramer, Stanford University. In "Welcome to the Future of Fedora" they explain why, "It’s time for a serious re-investment in our core digital asset management and preservation services."

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?

From Heather Morrison, Simon Frasier University

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.

Winchester, MA  Find out how DSpace services offered by @mire (http://atmire.com/) and DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), will help you make the most of your digital content at the "Discover DSpace" booth (1326) at ACRL (April 10-13, 2013).

@mire will showcase new functionality for its suite of DSpace add-on modules. As a visitor you will have the chance to participate in a contest to win one of these modules for your own DSpace repository.

The 2013 DuraSpace Sponsors Summit Meeting Report

Winchester, MA  Earlier this month DuraSpace hosted a 2-day Sponsor Summit Meeting for more than 60 sponsors from 54 organizations in Baltimore to "move the needle" towards a digital future that meets shared needs through investment in DSpace and Fedora. Meeting materials are available here:
 
Summit Overview: http://bit.ly/YcEri5

From Ian Dolphin, Executive Director, Apereo Foundation Patty Gertz, Associate Director, Apereo Foundation Jim Helwig, Planning Committee Chair Alan Regan, Program Committee Chair