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The National Library of Wales is pleased to announce an upcoming Fedora conference to be held in Aberystwyth, Wales, October 24, 2005. This conference will be held in conjunction with a METS awareness day on 25th October 2005.

This month's D-Lib has articles on personal digital libraries and collections, OAI harvesting, and Trusted Digital Repositories.

As reported back in April, this conference on historic newspaper digitization will be held July 18 in Denver, Colorado. More information is now available, including a speakers list and agenda.

The Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce that it will be delivering a two-day workshop on long term-curation and persistent identifiers. This event will be held in Glasgow from 30 June - 1 July 2005. This event is being held in cooperation with the Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS) and UKOLN.

The Illinois Digitization Institute at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in partnership with the Illinois State Library and the Illinois Heritage Association, is offering a Basics and Beyond on-line digitization training courses July 11-29, 2005. More information is available at the UIUC Library's website.

As reported on Digitization 101, SearchEngineWatch has a writeup on the University of Michigan's involvement with Google Print and points to the agreement document (which, BTW, is marked "confidential").

This report, published by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) in the UK, is the outcome of a survey of non-national museums, libraries and archives in the North East of England and West Midlands. The goal of the survey was to discover how well prepared these institutions are to deal with the problems of keeping digitized material over the long term. More information is available on the MLA website.

"Access, Preservation, and Interchange: Digital Imaging with JPEG 2000" will take place June 25, 2005, 8:30 - noon. Chicago, IL (Hotel Intercontinental room: Empire Ballroom). For more information, see the JPEG 2000 in Archives and Libraries website.

As announced on the DC-GENERAL email list today, a new version of Using Dublin Core , the official user guide to Dublin Core metadata, is now available. The updated version includes guidance for new terms approved by the Usage Board, as well as new sections on the DCMI Abstract Model and references to newly recommended documentation available for implementers.

If any of you are providing metadata for your collections using the OAI-PMH protocol, you may want to register your collection with the recently improved Institutional Archives Registry, which as of today lists 434 archives. The Registry's focus is on Open Access institutional repositories and eprints archives.