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Anticipation around the emerging DSpace 7 code base is high, as Kristi Park, Director of the Texas Digital Libray, explained. Community interest in COAR work around aligning repository infrastructure. Ms. Park reported that In an effort to engage additional support institutions (and their developers) with new strategies designed to ramp up development on DSpace 7, the first DSpace 7 Virtual Community Sprint will be held May 7-18, 2018. More information here.
Enhancements to the DSpace Data Model with New Entities are being considered by The DSpace Steering Group and the Entities Working Group and whether to include this as part of the DSpace 7 efforts to better align the DSpace roadmap with the COAR Next Generation Repositories recommendations, This improvement would meet OpenAIRE v4 guidelines and make DSpace a more competitive option compared to proprietary solutions (like Bepress). Expanding the DSpace data model would support new object types (aka entities) such as Authors. .
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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"on ramp." 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 DuraSpace members in support of VIVO, and are often active community members.
Some high level aspirational 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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