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In the fall issue of the Digital Insider: Digital Information News from the State Library of North Carolina, Lisa Gregory highlights how the State Library has adopted DuraCloud to "assist with the ongoing preservation of and access to digital state government publications." The State of North Carolina began using DuraCloud in the summer and has since been able to preserve over 300,000 files in DuraCloud. She notes that getting the content into DuraCloud using several of the provided tools "was simple."

ORCID  (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) has launched its Registry (http://orcid.org), where researchers can distinguish themselves by creating a unique profile and personal identifier for themselves.

Announcement: http://about.orcid.org/news/2012/10/16/orcid-launches-registry

Winchester, MA  On Oct. 16 Rick Johnson and Richard Green presented “A Case Study on General Repository Applications using Hydra". This webinar is part of the Hot Topics Community Webinar Series, “Get a Head on Your Repository with Hydra End-to-End Solutions,” curated by Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist at Stanford University Libraries. 

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the recent release of Fedora 3.6 on Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET. Edwin Shin, Fedora Release Team Leader and Managing Partner and Technical Director, MediaShelf, will be presenting an overview of what's new in Fedora Repository 3.6.

From Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer, DuraSpace

Amathus, Cyprus  The Fourth EuroMed international conference (www.euromed2012.eu) is being organized in cooperation with the European Commission, and is the event of the CY-Presidency of the EU Council on Cultural Heritage. This Pan-European conference is under the Patronage of UNESCO, and will be held during the time period that Cyprus holds the CY-EU Council Presidency. This year the conference will focus on 21st century cultural heritage challenges:

From Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Office of Strategic Initiatives, The Library of Congress

Washington, DC  The Levels of Preservation National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) project has posted a draft of their work for public comment on The Signal bog. We would like to invite you and your colleagues to provide feedback on this draft.

From Todd Sedmak, Communications Manager, Internet2

Winchester, MA  The DuraCloud team will host the sixth in a series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud on Wednesday, September 26th at 12:30pm ET. Wednesday's brown bag session will detail the ways in which DuraCloud can help you solve problems around preserving and/or providing access to content, enabling scheduled distributed off-site backups, ensuring the health of your content once it is stored in the cloud, working through the business/contractual side of choosing a cloud vendor, and much more!