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Increased standards support and expanded Spring-based configuration in Fedora 3.6

From Andrea Goethals, Digital Preservation and Repository Services Manager Harvard Library, on behalf of the Standards and Practices Working Group, National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)

Ithaca, NY According to Wikipedia Twitter has 500 million users and sees 340 million tweets per day. This is just one indicator that people and organizations are now sharing and accessing every kind of news and information in 140 characters, via YouTube and, or through one or more customized social media pipes on many types of devices. How do your web site stats look these days?

Stellenbosch, South Africa Registration is now open for the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference, to be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa November 7-8, 2012. Registration is also open for Pre-conference Workshops to be presented on November 6, 2012.

Redwood Shores, CA This fall the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be held in Dublin, Ireland at the Gresham Hotel from October 17-19, 2012.

Bloomington, IN The Variations on Video project will transition to a new name: the Avalon Media System. This Indiana University and Northwestern University project aims to develop an open source software system to enable academic libraries and archives to easily provide online access to their video and audio collections.

Ithaca, NY Institutions with IT departments offer services and storage based on infrastructure that has been accumulated over time. Limitations of in-house services combined with evolving data curation, management and cost requirements, have made the flexibility of cloud computing and storage options appealing.

From Mike Conlon, University of Florida, VIVO 2012 Conference Chair 

Miami, FL The third annual VIVO conference will be held in Miami, August 22-24.  Deadline for registration is July 31. See http://www.vivoweb.org/conference2012 for registration and program information.

DuraSpace Incubator to help VIVO sustain technologies and communities for linking information about researchers and research 

From Rebecca Fairbairn, Public Relations Manager, BioMed Central

London, UK BGI, the world’s largest genomics institute, and BioMed Central, a leader in scientific data sharing, aim to revolutionize science publishing with the launch of GigaScience, a new open access, open data journal with a scope that embraces all life science research that generates ‘big data’.