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The DuraSpace Member Summit was held April 10-11 prior to the in San Diego prior to the CNI Spring Member Meeting in San Diego. Slides will be made available
I was able to report that DiraSpace reported that DiuaSpace 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 which coincides with the launch of the our 2018 Membership Campaign. Thank you to members who have already taken the time to renew their memberships.
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 offered by community presenters.
On Tuesday, Liz Krznarich of ORCID and John Kunze of the California Digital Library, participated in a panel discussion, “How do persistent identifiers intersect with digital curation, preservation, and discovery activities?” to present their view of why identifiers are important, how they can integrate with other digital workflow components, and how they can be improved.
Wednesday’s panel discussion, “The Future Will Be Open?” looked into the future of scholarly communication. Panelists discussed what it would take to move our distributed system of global scholarly communication to a place where it is both significantly more open and significantly more sustainable? Moderated by Michael Roy, Dean of the Library, Middlebury College, our panel of leading thinkers and practitioners dug into these questions which boiled down to, "Will the future be ours and affordable?" Panelists included Tyler Walters, Dean of University Libraries, Virginia Tech; Virginia Tech, John Willinsky, The Public Knowledge Project at Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Simon Fraser University Library, Stanford University; Martha Hruska, AUL Collection Services, University of California San Diego; and myself. Learn more about this presentation and the panelists here.
Both panels were well received and sparked lively audience discussion. Our thanks to all our panelists! Look for future DuraSpace Summits to continue the trend towards being more outward-facing and inclusive.
Please join us for the first of three Hot Topics webinars on May 17 entitled, "“The 2.5% Commitment: Investing in Open.” This webinar will focus on the David Lewis’ proposal for a 2.5% investment in open infrastructure and how it aims to make visible the investments academic libraries make in open infrastructure and content. It will also review actions that have taken place in the past nine months to advance these ideas. Register here.
Project reports from DSpace, Fedora and VIVO were concise and honest with regard to both successes, challenges and forward-thinking solutions.
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 <
DSPACE
Anticipation around the emerging DSpace 7 code base is high, as Kristi Park, Director of the Texas Digital Libray, explained.
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VIVO
VIVO has a
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 DuraSpace 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.
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