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2016 Membership update (needs update0update)
Many thanks to our members who have already renewed their membership for 2016, and to those who have joined DuraSpace for the first time as new members. To date we have $813,750 or 65% of our $1,254,084 goal.
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Total: $813,750 with 93 unique members
DSpace: $179,500 with 36 members
Fedora: $394,750 with 51 members
VIVO: $177,000 with 14 members
General: $62,500 with 12 members
PROJECTS
FEDORA
Fedora project community members are on the road all over the world this fall–from Germany, Switzerland, and all over the US you can touch base face-to-face with team members in multiple locations. See "Where We'll Be" below. Activities include training and opportunities to learn more about the growing Fedora community of users and developers.
DSPACE
Now that summer holidays are coming to a close work continues toward the public release of DSpace 6.0 due later this month. Thanks to those members who have pitched in to test release candidates and identify areas of improvement over the last two months.
What to look for in DSpace 6.0:
- A major refactor of our underlying Java API (supporting UUIDs and Hibernate) which will help ease ongoing maintenance efforts and better support future roadmap goals and new UI implementation. See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Service+based+api
- Enhanced configuration system, supporting auto-reloadable configurations and easier management of local settings (via a local.cfg file). See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Enhanced+Configuration+Scheme
- Enhanced file (bitstream) storage plugins, including support for Amazon S3 file storage. Seehttps://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Storage+Layer#StorageLayer-ConfiguringtheBitstreamStore
- Configurable site healthcheck (i.e. repository status) reports via email. See https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2659
- REST API enhancements:
- Robust quality control reports for collection managers built on the REST API. See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/REST+Based+Quality+Control+Reports
- Support for all authentication methods via REST (e.g. Shibboleth, LDAP, etc)
- XMLUI enhancements:
- New framework for metadata import from external sources (including out-of-the-box plugins supporting PubMed and ScienceDirect). This concept was previously only supported in JSPUI.
- Extensible administrative control panel
- Export of XMLUI search results to CSV (for bulk metadata editing). This feature was previously only supported in JSPUI.
(Tim Donohue and list any dspace-related events you or other staff will attend below)
VIVO
This week the VIVO community kicks off the 7th Annual VIVO Conference in Denver with workshops, keynotes, invited speakers, panels, project sessions and more. A focus on OpenVIVO, a VIVO that anyone can join, and a panel discussion, "Persistent Identifiers: Where we are now and the role of Networking Profile Systems in Shaping Their Future" are among many conference highlights.
You can help VIVO by participating in a short survey of all organizations considering VIVO, implementing VIVO or maintaining VIVO. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete and does not require technical expertise. Please help us set new directions for VIVO by sharing your thoughts and experiences with us. The survey is anonymous. We would be happy to hear from each member of the VIVO community. Survey results will be tabulated and presented in a poster at the VIVO Conference and on this wiki following the conference.
Please take 10 minutes to share your thoughts about VIVO with us. The survey is here: https://goo.gl/rkr964
(Mike Conlon please edit/add and list any VIVO-related events you or other staff will attend below)
SERVICES
New users and the suite of DuraSpace Web Services
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DuraSpace Web Services include ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud. Learn more about any of the hosted services DuraSpace offers, please visit their web sites or contact