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I was able to report that DiraSpace had its “Best. Year. Ever. “ Accompanying facts, figures and narrative told our story in a way that, underscores the fact that DuraSpace is a sound investment in the scholarly ecosystem launch of the 2018 Membership Campaign. This year we added 2 panel presentations focused on current topics of general community interest (identifiers and the future of “open”) offered by community presenters. Both were well received snd sparked more audience discussion than I have ever heard at a Summit.In 2019 look for the DuraSpace Summit to continue the trend towards being more outward-facing and inclusive.
Project reports from DSpace, Fedora and VIVO were concise and honest with regard to both successes, challenges and forward-thinking solutions. CASRAI became a project of DuraSpace earlier this month.
As you may have seen in our recent blog post CASRAI is now a DuraSpace project. We are very excited to bring the Research Management Information (RMI) dimension to our work and to add open standards and open systems to our mandate focus. The CASRAI mission is to change the way management information is collected and communicated in the research community and to strengthen the stewardship role played by universities in this objective. In the coming year CASRAI will continue to strengthen its established national chapters in Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as advancing its newest chapter in Europe. For the mission to be accomplished we need the active engagement and support from as many universities as possible around the world; advancing real and lasting change will require strength in numbers from those most affected. If your institution is based in Canada, UK or Europe and you have a role to play in reducing administrative burden on your researchers and improving information quality for your administrative processes please contact us about how you can help. We are also hoping in the coming year to start a new CASRAI chapter in the US - if you are in the US and would like to explore this opportunity to lead there please contact me <debr> or David Baker <
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VIVO is very different from repository installations in that a major part of the institution has to get behind a VIVO installation so there is very long onramp. Product Director Mike Conlon asked, "is there another OS community that has similar challenges?" It is notable that those institutions with VIVOs are all members anf often active community members
Some high level aspirational organizational goals include interoperability-breaking down project silos, diversity and inclusiveness, long-range economic stability, business development, internationalization and others. In many cases we share these goals wth our member institutions. DuraSpace's pursuit of aspirational goals on behalf of the member community will include communications transparency and clear opportunities for wide participation.
Durapace Board Member and Stanford Libraries AUL Tom Cramer summarized by encouraging members to think of support and participation withDuraSpace from a broader perspective. "We are at an inflection point—our conversations are very different from what they were years ago. We have made a lot of progress. Successes snd structures are reasons to celebrate.
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