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Ithaca, NY State-of-the-art facilities and security systems are important aspects of ensuring that an organization’s critical data is preserved and protected. Key digital information can include operational documents such as design and manufacturing specifications, proprietary content, personnel records and more. What if the weather does not cooperate? Evidence of severe and random weather events continue to mount from the Tsunami in Japan earlier this year to the effects of multiple devasting storms in the Northeast United States this fall.

Ithaca, NY Please join DSpace technical lead Tim Donohue for a free webinar overview of the DSpace Curation System and how you can seamlessly use the DSpace "Replication Task Suite" add-on to back up your content to DuraCloud through the DSpace user interface.

Date: Nov 30, 2011
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Hosted By: DuraSpace
Presented By: Tim Donohue (DSpace technical lead)

Ithaca, NY On November 16, 2011 geographic and geospatial information systems (GIS) are recognized as key aspects of our scientific, scholarly, and cultural heritage by more than 80 countries on "GIS Day." This global event is sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Esri.

http://www.gisday.com/

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."