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DuraSpace is pleased to announce the latest DuraSpace Hot Topics Webinar Series, "Introducing DSpace 7: Next Generation UI". The series is curated by Claire Knowles, Library Digital Development Manager , The at the University of Edinburgh and will provide a comprehensive overview of DSpace 7 development. More information here–Register today!
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The 2017 DuraSpace Member Summit will be held on April 3-4 directly following the CNI Spring 2017 Meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Be sure and book your hotel room soon!
PROJECTS
FEDORA
Fedora 4.7.1 Released; Content In and Out; Fedora at the University of Alberta,
This month the Fedora team released Fedora 4.7.1 Released
DSPACE
.1–now available. This is a backwards compatible refinement of the previous release, focused on improvements and bug fixes to the REST-API and the core code base.
One of the design goals of Fedora is to simplify the process of getting resources into and out of Fedora in a standardized way. This enables the reuse of Fedora resources in other contexts, such as exporting to a separate preservation system, as well as provides a pathway for migrating across Fedora installations, such as migrating from a LevelDB backend to PostgreSQL. Due to a significant level of community interest in this functionality the third import/export sprint towards developing related tooling was completed in December. Stakeholders have had an opportunity to test the new functionality and provide feedback. If you would like to try out the utility please check out the README file for instructions.
A recent blog post, "Telling Fedora 4 Stories at the University of Alberta with Geoff Harder, Peter Binkley, and Leah Vanderjagt" explains how Fedora was able to help meet strategic institutional goals at U of A:
"We take our role as long-term stewards of digital resources seriously. We had a goal of developing a very feature-rich, flexible institutional repository, and building our own front end on top of Fedora’s strong foundation enabled us to do that quite quickly. We have been able to respond nimbly to user requests for changes and new features, which helped us promote the repository as a useful and valuable service. Because others in the Fedora community share our goals we do not have to negotiate a lot of changes to a big code base. Because our DAMS strategy sits around Fedora we are able to provide flexible support to our user community." Read more here.
DSPACE
Join the New Join DSpace 7 Slack, COAR Repository Use Cases
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