DuraCloud

Ithaca, NY If you are traveling to EDUCAUSE 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia October 18-21, please mark two October 19 DuraSpace events on your calendar:
 

Washington, DC The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Outreach group wants to collect stories about data loss and preservation. If you've had your heart broken or uplifted by data loss or preservation, please fill out the form at http://j.mp/datastories, and/or please pass on the call for stories below. Distribute widely, as they used to say on listservs! There's no deadline, but we'll probably be taking a look at what we get in November.

From Tim Donohue, DuraSpace technical lead and developer

Winchester, MA Please join Michele Kimpton, CEO of DuraSpace and Project Director of DuraCloud, and Carissa Smith, Partner Specialist, for a free introductory webinar detailing the DuraCloud service on Wednesday, September 28th at 1pm -2pm ET (for compatible times around the world, please visit: http://bit.ly/p6gwir)

2011 Sponsor Program as of September 8. Graph shows percentage of Sponsor dollars versus goal.

Ithaca NY A few months ago, DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, launched its 2011 Sponsorship Program to engage leaders from university and library communities in supporting the common goal of ensuring that our scholarly record of digital content and data is saved and accessible for future generations.

Baltimore, MD Please mark your calendars for the 2011 DLF Forum that will feature a hands-on demonstration of the DuraCloud service. DLF will take place in Baltimore, MD at the Hyatt Regency Monday, October 31st through Wednesday, November 2nd. More details and the complete schedule will be posted shortly.

Philadelphia, PA If you are planning to attend EDUCAUSE 2011 to be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia October 18-21st, please save a spot in your schedule for the DuraCloud session entitled "Using the Cloud to Archive and Preserve the Scholarly Record: Experiences from the DuraCloud Pilot." The session will take place on Wednesday, October 19th from 2:30-3:20pm and will be held in meeting ro

Cambridge, MA On August 4, 2011, the DuraCloud team kicked off the DuraCloud Video Pilot Project with a one day meeting with pilot institutions the Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) and WGBH Boston. The goal of the DuraCloud Video Pilot is to have a robust video offering embedded in the DuraCloud platform that will be available to the public through the DuraCloud service.

Ithaca, NY The DuraSpace organization announced today the release of production-ready DuraCloud 1.0. This release focuses on reporting and integrations with popular DSpace and Fedora repositories. Since 2010, DuraCloud open source software has been available to a community of partners and committers who have provided feedback and testing to ensure that DuraCloud 1.0 is ready to be part of your workflow. DuraCloud is also available as a managed service.