DuraCloud

Ithaca, NY Please join Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer of DuraSpace and Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer of DuraSpace for an EDUCAUSE Live! presentation about how the DuraCloud open source solution can help higher education manage and persist content in the cloud working with multiple cloud providers, both commercial and noncommercial.

WEB SEMINAR-DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education
WHEN-February 29, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. ET
PRESENTERS-Michele Kimpton, Jonathan Markow

From Simon Benjamin, The Senior Fellow in Quantum Materials, Dept Materials, Oxford: www.qunat.org

Oxford, UK On leap-Wednesday the 29th Feb, a rare chance to meet an eminent panel of speakers and debate:

The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and the Future of Publishing

Ithaca, NY DSpace (http://DSpace.org) is an out-of-the-box open source repository software package for creating repositories focused on delivering digital content to end users, and providing a full set of tools for managing and preserving content within the application.

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud team will launch a new series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud features on February 29, 2012 at 12:30pm ET. Tune in to the "DuraCloud Brown Bag Series" for short, 30-minute demonstrations and/or discussions of new features, common use cases, and frequently asked questions. An additional 15 minutes at the end of each will be reserved for questions.

Ithaca, NY The February 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter highlights the "Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011." DuraCloud is among the top picks:

Ithaca, NY A recent National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) survey [1] highlighted members' [2] digtal asset storage practices. NDSA members include 98 libraries, archives, museums and other organizations committed to keeping digital information accessible over time.

Ithaca, NY Get a sneak peak of the DuraCloud web interface, view the dashboard reporting features, as well as learn how to run DuraCloud services. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has invited the DuraCloud team to conduct an introductory webinar next Wednesday, Feburary 1:

Web Seminar: Introduction to the DuraCloud Service
Wednesday, Feburary 1, 2012 from 1:00pm -2:00pm ET

A forum for community experts to share their knowledge

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