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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
The summer has flown by and I by–I hope everyone has had some vacation time to recharge! I enjoyed seeing many of you in Charlottesville at the SHARE Annual Meeting in July. The presentations were interesting, and as usual, the conversations at breaks helped spark new ideas for new collaborations. This summer we've focused on establishing greater working relationships with global partners in talking talks with Mark Leggott at Research Data Canada, Kathleen Shearer at COAR, and Michele Mennielli at CINECA about ways to collaborate to promote open data and research internationally. I look forward to sharing details about these efforts in the coming months.
This week I am traveling to Denver, Colorado to attend participate in the 7th Annual VIVO Conference. The conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with researchers and administrators from around the world to learn more about VIVO at their institutions, and to explore collaborative new opportunities. A detailed Conference conference schedule can be found online at http://www.vivoconference.org/.
Finally, thanks to all of you for renewing your DuraSpace memberships and for your commitment to community support of -supported open source software. If you have colleagues at institutions who are have not yet become members, please let me know and I will reach out to them.
It is always good to remember that while While we need paid memberships to sustain our work together, we also need strong, vibrant communities to grow our projects and meet vital, ongoing needs. Thank you to all of you who are involved in leadership, training, code contribution, and other vital community activities. You are the reason we're here!
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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.
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- 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 and Jonathan Markow please review and add any dspace-related events you or other staff will attend below "Where We'll Be")
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.
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(Mike Conlon please edit/add and list any VIVO-related events you or other staff will attend below "Where We'll Be")
SERVICES
New users and the suite of DuraSpace Web Services
DuraSpace would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest DuraCloud users: (Kristi Searle please add any new customers)
DuraSpace offers a full suite of flexible hosted services that allow you to easily access, manage, process, and preserve actively used digital content at the same time as taking advantage of all the benefits of the cloud. DuraCloud–the comprehensive, hosted digital preservation service–has been compared with other cloud services and has received high marks for data integrity, reliability, scalability, retention and portability. Specifically, the Digital POWRR Project’s white paper noted DuraCloud’s ease-of-use, quick customer service and competitive pricing.
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