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DSpace Developer Show and Tell Meetings (more) http://duraspace.org/news/dspace-launches-developer-show-and-tell-meetings - DEBRA'S NOTE: This seems like an unfinished thought.Meetings are a new type of community meeting that showcases what DSpace Developers are up to and gives developers an opportunity to share tools, processes and recent work with everyone in the DSpace community (Read more).
We are pleased to announce that the California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace are collaborating to build an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem. Learn more about the ARKs in the Open Project in recent project updates:http://duraspace.org/news/arks-open-project-update-1; http://duraspace.org/articles/3377
DuraSpace has launched its 2018 webinars program. Workshop webinars will be offered free of charge each month focused on applied use of our open source technologies. Workshop webinar slides and recordings are available after each presentation. In February David Wilcox presented "Getting Started with Fedora." This presentation provided an overview of the software and basic concepts, examples of deployments, and an overview and demonstration of the core and extended features. Slides and recording available: http://duraspace.org/articles/3371. Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, will offer DSpace users and potential users a simple introduction to the customization process during an April 24 webinar, "Making DSpace Your Own". On March 28 Erin Tripp will present Open Source Repository Upgrades: Top Advice from Practitioners summarizing advice Practitioners. Erin will summarize advice gathered from a DuraSpace upgrade and migration survey project undertaken in fall 2017 so participants can benefit from the experience of their peers and plan for the best project possible FINISH THIS THOUGHT: http://duraspace.org/articles/3353. Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, will offer DSpace users and potential users a simple introduction to the customization process on April 24 http://duraspace.org/articles/3372.possible migration outcome (Read more).
DuraSpace is managing a pilot led by Research Graph and VIVO aimed at collecting, augmenting, and making discoverable patterns of faculty collaboration and research outputs (Read more).
We are excited to be co-hosting 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 in advance of the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden - on Wednesdayon Wednesday, June 13, 2018. (USE CONSISTENT STYLE, bold or don't bold all dates.)
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.
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With many thanks for your support and participation.
Warm regards,
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We're looking forward to seeing many of our members at our Annual Member Summit on April 10 and 11 in San Diego, California. Those attending will receive the agenda and additional materials by April 6th. We'll be sure to provide all of our members with a complete Summit Summary in April's member newsletter. If you have any questions regarding the summit please contact Kristi Searle.
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SERVICES
We are pleased to welcome new DuraCloud customers Fort Hays State University and International Development Research Centre, and new DSpaceDirect customer Delaware State University.
NEW: DuraCloud New Customer Discount for Silver+ Members
DuraSpace members supporting at the Silver level or higher now have a new incentive to try the DuraCloud preservation storage service. DuraSpace member institutions that begin a new DuraCloud subscription in 2018 qualify for a discount on the subscription price for their first year of DuraCloud service:
- 10% Discount for Platinum Members
- 7% discount for Gold Members
- 5% Discount for Silver Members
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.
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