DuraCloud

With CloudSync Fedora repositories can take advantage of DuraCloud—the only managed software service that lets organizations archive content across more than one cloud provider.

Ithaca, NY Fedora CloudSync is a new open source web-based utility for backing up and restoring Fedora content in DuraCloud that also syncs content between multiple Fedora repositories. It supports on-demand backups of any content in a Fedora repository.

Ithaca, NY The next meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be held Jan. 11-13 in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

Meeting web site: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/
Registration (early registration ends on November 30): http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/registration/

Ithaca, NY Please join DuraCloud lead developer Bill Branan for a free webinar that takes a deep dive into the technical architecture behind DuraCloud and look at how it runs in the cloud.

DuraCloud: A Technical Overview 

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Washington, DC The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2011 Membership Meeting will be held December 12-13, 2011 at the Arlington, VA Crystal Gateway Marriott.

CNI member organizations meet twice annually for membership meetings to explore new technologies, content, and applications; to further collaboration; to analyze technology policy issues; and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects.

Ithaca, NYThe DuraCloud1.2 release features several community requests including:
 
• The Upload Toolallows you to transfer multiple files and folders through the web interface or via a client-side utility. This utility lets you see the progress of the upload once it starts.
• Media streaming improvementsgive you the ability to stream media files from multiple spaces as well as media files that are added after the service has been deployed.

Ithaca, NYThe 2011 DLF Forum was held on October 31–November 1, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland featuring presentations and panels, workshops, research updates, working sessions, demos, and more. The schedule provides session overviews and links to slides where they are available:
 
http://www.diglib.org/forums/2011forum/schedule/
 

Ithaca, NY In an article about the launch of DuraCloud, Jo Maitland, Executive Editor of SearchCloudComputing, SearchServerVirtualization and SearchVMware, takes a look at how DuraCloud operates with cloud storage providers, key advantages of the new service and the ease of uploading content to DuraCloud:

"There are three options for uploading content to DuraCloud: via the web interface, the client-side synchronization utility, or the REST API."

DuraCloud helps define cloud’s purpose by preserving scholarly, scientific and cultural heritage for future generations

Stuart L. Baker and Michele Kimpton at their EDUCAUSE presentation, “DuraCloud: Preserving the Scholarly Record." Photograph by Jonathan Markow.

Ithaca, NY You are invited to attend the web event, "Using DuraCloud for Archiving & Preservation,"  to be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 from 1:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Presenters include Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace Chief Executive Officer & DuraCloud Project Director and Bryan Beecher, Director of Computing & Network Services, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).