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Ithaca, NY Before continuous tone photography, and way before there were instant digital capture devices for recording and processing digital images, there were engravings. The process of using sharp tools (gravers) to incise an image on a metal or glass plate so that a reverse print of that image could be created by spreading ink on the plate and pressing paper into the inked design is known as engraving. This method of recording images was used extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to illustrate the news stories of the day.

Ithaca, NY Highlights, news and information from DuraSpace developers, communities and partners is now available in the current issue of DuraSpace Digest:

Chicago, IL The 6th International Digital Curation Conference is set to get underway on December 6 with a full programme: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/programme.

Speakers will include:

Bloomington, IN Voting has begun for Code4Lib 2011 Conference prepared talks. Please vote on 50 prepared talk proposals and let the organizers know how you would like the program to shape up. Thanks to everyone who has contributed!

Vote now:  http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/17

Reston, VA Join this free workshop to be be held Dec. 3, 2010 at the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Center at 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192 on from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. This workshop is organized by SOCoP (Spatial Ontology Community of Practice) with support from the USGS, Ontolog, and others.

Ithaca, NY Please join Thorny Staples, Smithsonian Institution, for a web seminar on December 9 at 3:00 pm for "The Future of Scholarly Communication is a Web in the Clouds."

Ithaca, NY The process of open source software development has been called a lot of things–collaborative, transparent, unwieldy, community-driven, cost effective, innovative, but never before a “dance.” This may be because it is a novel idea to visualize open source code development as a series of complex and sometimes dramatic movements between and among people and infrastructure as they engage in the ongoing evolution of dynamic software.

Washington, DC You are invited to attend a public symposium, "The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data
" organized by the
Board on Research Data and Information National Research Council
 (http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi) on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:15 p.m. to be held at the 20 F Street Conference Center Conference Room B, 20 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.