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Earlier this month we launched the nomination phase of our Leadership Group election process. Each DuraSpace project has representative, community-based governance model that includes several governing groups with various levels of responsibility. Eligibility to serve in project governance is determined by participation in the DuraSpace Membership Program. Individuals sitting on the Leadership Group for each project play a key role in setting the strategic direction and priorities of the project through the approval of the annual budget allocation and project roadmap and establishing the annual community direction. Leaders also nominate the members of the project Steering Group. Nominations are made by the appointed Community Liaison at each member institution. Their role includes both the nomination of a candidate from your institution (if there is an open Leadership Group seat) and voting in the election on behalf of your institution which will take place later this month. If you have any questions about the Leadership Group election process please contact Kristi Searle.
SERVICES
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Webinar recording: DuraCloud in 2018: What’s New? What’s Next for the Software & the Service?
On Thursday, May 24th DuraSpace Services Coordinator, Heather Greer Klein, presented a one-hour webinar we’ll discuss DuraSpace community webinar, “DuraCloud in 2018: What’s New? What’s Next for the Software & the Service?” Heather shared an overview of the services that DuraSpace offers including DuraCloud, an open source preservation storage system and hosted service designed to make it easy to preserve data in the cloud. Heather detailed DuraCloud’s features, storage options, and hosted service options in the United States and Europe. Participants will also learn more about Attendees also learned about DuraCloud as open source software, the development roadmap, and the new pricing options for storing over 20 TB . and the first year discount available to new DuraSpace members.
The presentation slides and webinar recording are available at https://duraspace.org/webinar/.
New Customers
We are excited to welcome new ArchivesDirect customer CUNY Graduate Center and new DSpaceDirect customer Engineering World Bryan College of Health Sciences.
ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud services from DuraSpace are built on solid open source software platforms and require very little effort to start up. DuraSpace staff experts work directly with service customers to provide personalized on-boarding processes and superb customer support. Our services can provide open access to institutional resources, preservation of treasured collections, and simplified data management tools. Contact Heather Greer Klein to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers, and to learn about special discounts for new DuraCloud subscribers who are DuraSpace members at the Silver level and above.
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