Fedora Commons distribute

Winchester, MA  The Fedora Futures team recently launched a blog entitled, Fedora Futures, aimed at telling the stories behind building the future of the Fedora repository. The first post is from  Edwin Shin, Fedora Futures Project Manager, and Tom Cramer, Stanford University. In "Welcome to the Future of Fedora" they explain why, "It’s time for a serious re-investment in our core digital asset management and preservation services."

Ithaca, NY  The Call for Papers and Call for Applications for the 2013 VIVO Conference are now available and we look forward to hearing about the good work you're doing in the interest areas listed below—and beyond!

The Fourth Annual VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis from Aug. 14-16, 2013: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/vivo2013/

Call for Papers

From Thomas Krichel on behalf of The The OAI Organizing Committee

Geneva, Switzerland  The OAI8 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on June 19-21, 2013. The Programme can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=211600.

There are six plenary sessions on:

• Technical developments
• Metrics

Winchester, MA  There are plenty of questions that come up as you make the decision to preserve digital content in the cloud—any cloud. What's the process like? Can I control my content in the cloud? What can I do with my content once it's in the cloud? How do I retrieve it? What are the advantages of replicating content with multiple providers? What does it mean to synchronize content?

Winchester, MA  Rhodes College is a small liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee.

The 2013 DuraSpace Sponsors Summit Meeting Report

Winchester, MA  Earlier this month DuraSpace hosted a 2-day Sponsor Summit Meeting for more than 60 sponsors from 54 organizations in Baltimore to "move the needle" towards a digital future that meets shared needs through investment in DSpace and Fedora. Meeting materials are available here:
 
Summit Overview: http://bit.ly/YcEri5

Ghent, Belgium  Registration is open for a joint OpenAIRE/LIBER workshop that will explore where the library sits in relation to supporting research data management, and what future expectations for libraries might be. The workshop is an ELAG (European Library Automation Group) 2013 free pre-conference event to be held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-31, 2013.

Web site:

Winchester, MA  Members of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Technical Team presented an overview web seminar on March 20, 2013.

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, CNI 

Washington, DC  Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?, a project briefing presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC and Sara Snyder of the Smithsonian Institution, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/a6Qs-_51Qko
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/61522767

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr, Publisher, Digital Scholarship

Houston, TX  Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement:

http://digital-scholarship.org/dcbw/s1/dcbw-s1.htm

The 2012 supplement to the Digital Curation Bibliography: