Dear Friends,
The In October DuraSpace look 's work across the scholarly ecosystem landscape includes included several notable highlights:
- We announced a new strategic partnership with OpenAIRE aimed at ensuring that to ensure repositories are using up-to-date technologies and adopting international standards and protocols.
- A Fedora We planned a Fedora and Samvera Camp is Camp that's happening at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts.
- VIVO was recently highlighted at Force 11 in Montreal.
- We welcome Ontocale, our newest participant in the DuraSpace Service Provider (DSP) program. Ontocale is a Certified DuraSpace Contributor offering VIVO services. (link to come)welcomed our newest DSpaceDirect customer, Houston Baptist University.
- We announced As our global community continues to expand DuraSpace is pleased to announce the first Country-specific Webinar Series, offered with the support of Neki IT, focused on DSpace in Brazil. The series will be presented in the Portuguese languageis in Portuguese and you can find more information in the new WIKI space dedicated to the DSpace Brazilian User Group.
Thank you for supporting our work on these and other initiatives aimed at providing enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
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Interim CEO
2018 Membership Campaign
We are in the final days of the active 2018-19 DuraSpace Membership Campaign and are within $53,000 of our goal! Here's where we are towards meeting the 2018 Membership Campaign goals by project:
Total: $1,047087,440773; 159 166 unique members ; 92% of goal (pls update)95% of goal
- DSpace: $291 $299,857524; 61 members ; 116% of goal / I would suggest to consider all the members, including the German ones that form the Consortium. I think the total should be around 86 members. On our website we're listing all of the German institutions because we consider them members. It's also a good message to the community, seeing that we moved from below 60 to over 85
- Fedora: $508,167; 74 members; 89% 58 members ; 113% of goalFedora: $482,167; 71 members; 85% of goal
- VIVO: $174$179,916083; 22 23 members; 84% 86% of goal
General: $98$101,500000; 20 21 members; 95% 97% of goal
If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>.
Register for a Members This week: A Members-Only Hot Topics Webinar Register today for our upcoming Webinar
As a valued DuraSpace member we invite you to attend our upcoming members-only webinar
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, “Securing Community-Controlled Infrastructure: SPARC’s plan of action” on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
In a recently published article, "Securing community-controlled infrastructure," Heather Joseph, SPARC Executive Director, begins to address a common concern that was raised by the Open community in late 2017: “Everything we have gained by opening content and data will be under threat if we allow the enclosure of scholarly infrastructures.” This is a special opportunity to be among the first to hear from Heather on the results of the survey conducted and an update on what has been done to date to further explore this question. Heather will also discuss the possible paths to an ecosystem that encourages community-controlled infrastructure and answer questions from the audience. We invite you to register today ET. This is the second webinar in our members-only Hot Topics webinar series, "The Revolution Will Be Open?" curated by David Lewis, Indiana University Purdue University Indiana, Dean Emeritus of the University Library, and Michael Roy, Dean of the Library, Middlebury College. They will review progress in the drive to make scholarly content open, discoverable, and accessible through initiatives originating outside the US. The Open Access 2020 Initiative, for example, is a global initiative whose strategy is to accelerate the transition to open access by converting subscription expenditures into funds that support open access; it is coordinated by the Max Planck Society on behalf of the research community and counts over 100 national and international funding organizations, university president’s associations, individual research institutions and library consortia from 36 countries across 4 continents. Colleen Campbell who works on OA2020 and Arianna Becerril García from Redalyc.org will share their experiences on the global open access movement bringing insights from where they sit in Europe and South America. Learn more and Register Today!