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• News

• • IT'S A WRAP: The 2013 DuraSpace Community Sponsorship Campaign: Raised $716,370 from 98 sponsors, 71% or $298,620 growth largely due to increased investment from Fedora community
  • Call: DSpace Interest/User Group Meeting at Open Repositories 2014
  • Get Ready to Submit Your OR2014 Proposal!  
  • Dig Into the Registry of DSpace and Fedora Project Repositories  
  • REPORT: Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation  
  • Welcoming DSpace 4.0: Cineca’s Contribution  
  • NOW AVAILABLE: DSpace 4.0–New REST API, SWORDv2 Module Update, JSPUI Look and Feel+++
  • Mirage 2: A fresh look and feel for DSpace 4
  • Register for the Open Repository Workshop at the ALA Midwinter Meeting  

• Upcoming Webinars

  • DuraSpace Solutions Webinar: The National Agenda for Digital Stewardship: Coordinated National Planning for Preserving Our Shared Digital Assets

• Upcoming Events
  
  • SPARC 2014 Open Access Meeting, March 2-4, Kansas City, MO; DSpace user group mtg to follow
  • Open Repositories 2014, June 9-13 in Helsinki, Finland
• Other?
  • The DSpace Committers are designing a new policy to make minimal documentation a requirement for new contributions. You are welcome to comment on a new documentation template & associated checklist.

• Welcome new members
  • Felicity A Dykas - University of Missouri
  • Lilly Li, Texas A&M University
  • Roger Weaver - University of Missouri
  • Kathleen Schweitzberger - University of Missouri
• Make a community-wide call for new members?

Suggested solicited topics – any others?

• OAI 2.0 and DRIVER/OpenAIRE compliance for DSpace repositories: João Melo/Ivan Masar

• DSpace 4.0 - Release Team: Mark H. Wood, Hardy Pottinger and Andrea Bollini

• REST web service API: Peter Dietz Bootstrap (new JSPUI): Andrea Bollini

• Mirage 2: @mire Other 4.0 feature presentations?

• CRIS module: Andrea Bollini

• Adding ORCID to DSpace: University of Missouri and @mire Supporting eResearch
  with DSpace

• Work session for metadata improvements project (led by DCAT)

• Provide update on current work
  • The most imminent need is to get rid of hard coded dependencies to qualified dublin core fields, such as dc.contributor.author
  • It will not be required to move away from all old fields from the dc schema. Both DC and DCTerms fields can be used together
• Need for a review group yet?
  • Too early
• Opportunities at SPARC and OR for community discussion or project work?
  • Yes!
• Next metadata team mtg? 
  • Tue Jan 28th?

• Pick 2 to discuss: http://bit.ly/volunteer-details-needed