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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO (please review Debra)
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This month we welcome Heather Greer Kline as our hosted services customer specialist, and bid a fond farewell to chief strategy officer Jonathan Markow who is retiring to resume a performing career as a jazz pianist.
In the third and fourth quarters out organization undertook strategic planning for the next 3-5 years with input from board, staff and community members who have performed SWAT and PEST analyses to understand DuraSpace organizational strengths, emerging opportunities, and where we can improve services to our community. I look forward to your feedback as the results of this work are shared widely over the coming months.
Some of our discussions have included strategizing for what DuraSpace's role will be in the growth and diversification of the digital scholarly ecosystem. It is clear that an expanding landscape of projects and initiatives will require various kinds of organizational support. DuraSpace is well suited to play a role in this expansion by adding to the portfolio of mission-aligned partnerships and projects that we steward. We are developing a set of guidelines for potential projects, affiliates and partners who may wish to participate in DuraSpace, and who in turn aim to offer our community aspects of end-to-end solutions, services and technologies which acquire, analyze, organize, share, make discoverable, showcase and preserve scholarly information and data.
Anything about Avalon hosted service or other emerging services??
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Warmest regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
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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. We are winding down the campaign and only have another $175,334 This is the final month of our 2016 campaign. We only have another [$ ] to raise to reach our annual goal. Here's where we are towards meeting targets by project:
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NYC Camp; Fedora 4.7.0 release candidate
The Fedora project continues to engage committers and new users by reaching out nationally and internationally with workshops for beginners and those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Fedora's unique strengths. Whether you are in interested in the deep or overview look at Fedora these upcoming events may be of interest:
- An overview of what will be covered on each day of the upcoming Fedora Camp NYC, along with details regarding instructors and scheduling the content that will be presented on each day is now available (http://duraspace.org/articles/3015).Register today and join us in New York!Fedora 4.7.0
- Fedora at the 2016 DLF Forum Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 7-9, 2016. Digital Preservation 2016 will be held in conjunction with the Forum, from November 9-10. An Introduction to Fedora 4 workshop will be offered on November 8, along with a project update on November 7.
Fedora 4.7.0 is now available as a release candidate–your feedback is welcome: In addition the API Extension Architecture working group (API-X) is set to release a demonstration of the framework for a round of evaluation and feedback. An overview and evaluation guide for this demo is in development with an initial skeleton available on the wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/QpioB. Please place your name as an evaluator on the page if you are interested in evaluating the demo when it is released to provide this valuable feedback.
DSPACE (please review Jonathan)
DSpace 6.0 is in the house; A look at DSpace in Finland; DSpace 6.0 release?
- TK todayAny news about when DSpace 6.0 is expected?
- Insights into how DSpace is being used at the National Library of Finland to power more than 50 customer organizations which include 5 universities, 26 universities of applied science, state research institutes, all Finnish ministries and other public sector organizations in Finland. (http://duraspace.org/articles/3014)
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