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Ithaca, NY Laurence Lannom, Director of Information Management Technology and Vice President at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), has edited the May-June Special Issue of DLib Magazine on Digital Libraries in China (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may10/05contents.html) which are “extensive and growing.”

Madrid, Spain Are you traveling to Fifth International Open Repositories Conference in July 5-9,  Madrid? Previews of this exciting conference, including  a schedule for general sessions, information about the Developer Challenge and posters are now available online.
Keynote address
David De Roure, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, will give the keynote address entitled, “Linked Data and Repositories:”

From Josh Lieberman, Chair, OGC Geosemantics Domain Working Group
Silver Spring, MD On Monday afternoon, June 14, a Geosemantics Summit will be held in Silver Spring, MD. This session will be associated with the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Technical Committee meeting, but is open to OGC members and non-members alike.

From Kalaivani Ananthan, Digital Library Applications Manager, Rutgers University Libraries

By Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, DC SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, announces the next installment of the popular SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting will be held November 8 & 9, 2010 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

Ithaca, NY Registration for the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR10) to be held July 6-9, 2010 is now open. Standard registration which includes conference, registration, materials, lunches, refreshment breaks, poster reception and conference dinner is 315 euros ($398 USD). Options for one and two day registration packages are also available. Find more information here http://or2010.fecyt.es/.
Several meetings and events will be held in conjunction with OR10.

Singapore SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 invites you to contribute to the future of digital media at the Third International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 15–18 December 2010 at Coex Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul.
http://www.siggraph.org/asia2010/
The deadline for Technical Papers is 11 May 2010, 23:59 GMT/UTC. Courses submissions are due by 18 May 2010, 23:59 GMT/UTC. For complete information on how to submit your achievements to the other SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 programs:

Ithaca, NY If the prospect of red sand beaches, golf and lobster boils sound appealing as a backdrop for a deep dive into learning more about Fedora-based open source repository solutions, two back-to-back offerings from the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, PE, Canada will be of interest. Mark Leggott, University Librarian and Islandora Lead has announced two upcoming events:
1. The Islandora Team is in the early stages of planning for the 1st Annual Islandora Camp, July 22-23, Charlottetown, PEI:

From Matt McKay, Head of PR, BioMed Central
London, UK BioMed Central, the leading open access publisher, has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries to develop an automated system that uses the latest technology to automatically populate MIT’s digital repository, DSpace@MIT, with the official version of articles by MIT researchers that have been published in BioMed Central’s journals.