Dear Friends,
It is with some sadness and deep gratitude for the values we share that I am announcing that I will leave her my post as CEO at DuraSpace to serve as the Associate University Librarian for Technology Services at Arizona State University Library, effective June 25, 2018.
As As DuraSpace CEO , Ms. Hanken Kurtz led the organization to had its strongest fiscal year ever in 2017 and built a team of community and technology experts. She I continued the work of her my predecessor, Michele Kimpton, to build a robust membership program that currently enjoys a 94% retention rate. She has formalized and strengthened relationships Relationships with the Samvera Project have been formalized and strengthened and most recently, partnered DuraSpace entered a partnership agreement with CASRAI. Under Ms. Hanken Kurtz’s leadership the DuraSpace hosted services business has matured providing much needed archiving and preservation services to the community as well as additional support for our open source projects through revenues from hosted services.
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The DuraSpace Board of Directors is discussing recruitment planning and will announce an interim leadership plan by June 1.
With many thanks for your support and participation.
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
2018 Membership Campaign (please update Val)
We offiicially launched our 2018-19 Membership Campaign earlier this month. Most of our current members should have received renewal notices last week and invoices will be sent out shortly. If it is at all possible for your institution to increase your financial commitment this year, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>. Learn more about DuraSpace in the 2017-2018 Strategic Summary (link).
SERVICES (please update Heather)
DuraCloud Selected as a Featured Open Source Project for Mozilla Global Sprint
DuraSpace is excited to announce that its project, Open Sourcing DuraCloud: Beyond the License has been selected as a featured project for the Mozilla Foundation Global Sprint to be held May 10th - 11th, 2018. The Global Sprint is a collaborative event meant to “hack and build projects for a healthy internet.” The Sprint will allow people from many backgrounds -- students, journalists, librarians, educators, and anyone else interested in supporting the open internet -- to come together for two days and work to improve open projects that make the internet better, safer and healthier. See our blog post to learn more and sign up to participate.
ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud services from DuraSpace are built on solid open source software platforms and require very little effort to start up. DuraSpace staff experts work directly with service customers to provide personalized on-boarding processes and superb customer support. Our services can provide open access to institutional resources, preservation of treasured collections, and simplified data management tools. Contact Heather Greer Klein to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers, and to learn about special discounts for new DuraCloud subscribers who are DuraSpace memebers at the Silver level and above.
DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event
We’d like to invite you to the first DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event with our Strategic Partner euroCRIS.
The DSpace and CRIS Systems one-day Workshop will focus on interoperability between DSpace repositories and CRIS systems iprior to the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden - on Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
During the DSpace and CRIS systems workshop, DSpace users will have a great opportunity to meet to identify existing examples of integration between DSpace and CRIS systems and to discuss functionalities that DSpace could implement in the future in order to support workflows traditionally associated with Research Information Systems more effectively.
The agenda of the workshop we’ll be published soon, if you’re interested in participating please let us know using this form.
WHERE WE'LL BE THIS SPRING (UPDATE)
COAR Annual Meeting, Hamburg (Germany), May 15-17, Michele Mennielli
Fedora Camp at NASA, May 16-18, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods, Danny Bernstein
CASRAI-CA Reconnect18, Ottawa, Canada, May 23/24 - David Baker
Canadian Association of Research Administrators (CARA) Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 27-30 - David Baker
CASRAI-UK Reconnect18, Glasgow, UK, June 25/26 - David Baker
CASRAI-EU Reconnect18, Porto, Portugal, June 29 - David Baker, Michele Mennielli
EuroCRIS Conference, Umea, Sweden, June 13-16 - Michele Mennielli, Mike Conlon, David Baker