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1. Upcoming DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. April 10
   2. May 8
   3. June 12
2. DSpace 1.8.2 released last week: news piece, full release notes
3. OR12 deadlines: March 8
4. DSpace Developers' Virtual Summit
5. News
   1. DuraSpace Open Technologies By the Numbers: 
      1. over 1200 DSpace repositories in over 100 countries
      2. new countries: Iraq, South Korea, Rwanda, Sudan
      3. biggest growth in Brazil +23, India +18, United States +17, Spain +15, Japan +14, Ukraine +14, Portugal +13
   2. New Open Source Video Digitization Tools from the National Archives
   3. DSpace Repositories in January 2012 CSIC "Top Institutional Repository Ranking"
   4. Sorting Through the Data: BioMed Central Launches "Systematic Reviews"
   5. Fighting Poverty Together: Open Repository Partners with Oxfam
   6. "AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship" White Paper Available
6. New Hot Topics webinar series 
   1. Recordings available for 2 of the 3 "Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning" Series
   2. Upcoming webinar: "Preservation and Archiving Highlights from the Alliance Digital Repository" on Tuesday March 27, 2012
7. Other webinar recordings: "DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education" by Michele Kimpton and Jonathan Markow
8. Other news?
9. Events
   1. Upcoming - 
      1. SPARC OA Meeting in Kansas March 12-13 and Dpace User Group Meeting March 14
         1. conference themes
         2. DSpace user group mtg and Crowdvine
      2. CNI in Baltimore April 2-3
      3. JCDL in Washington June
      4. OR12 in Edinburgh July 9-13

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