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Project reports from DSpace, Fedora and VIVO were concise and honest with regard to both successes, challenges and forward-thinking solutions.
CASRAI UPDATE
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 <
CASRAI has a number of annual events taking place in our various chapters in Canada, UK and Europe in the coming months. We hope you will see an event near you with a programme that catches your interest: http://duraspace.org/news/attend-upcoming-casrai-community-events-canada-uk-and-europe
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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