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1. DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. January 10, 2012
   2. February 14, 2012
2. DSpace 1.8 Released! 
   1. Backup/Restore addon will be available shortly - can be used for DuraCloud and other backup/restore activities 
   w/iTunes U RSS Capability 
3. DuraCloud 
   1. Launch open source cloud service
   2. DuraCloud Preservation Service in the Troposphere: "Meteorology for the cloud computing world"
   3. recent presentations at DLF and EDUCES 
4. PREMIS OWL Ontology now available for review
5. NDSA Collecting stories about data loss 
7. SPARC Conference March 11-13:
   1. conference themes
   2. call for innovation fair proposals
   3. working on a DSpace user group mtg
8. SWORD 2 and Research Data - take the survey
9. Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Launches Website
10. Closing out the DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign - still time to be a sponsor!DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $340.5k with 60 sponsors so far, 20 of which are new for 2011
11. Call for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Conference in 2013 and 2014 Google Summer of Code Report
12. Other news? 
14. Open Access Week activities
    1. news feature on African repos: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5
    2. others?  
       1. Amy: Univ of Missouri - speaker from rival school spoke to faculty about OA, library showed how much journals costing univ
       2. Iryna: eIFL.net had events in 30 countries - she was in Estonia 
Events
DLF in Baltimore - report
1. Digital Preservation Summit in Hamburg
2. iPres 2011 in Singapore
3. Berlin 9 in Washington DC - Bram and Jim attending
4. Digital Curation Conference in Bristol
5. Coalition for Networked Information in D.C.

Minutes

1. New meeting format 

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