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I was so pleased to report that DuraSpace had its “Best. Year. Ever.“ in 2017. The facts, figures, and narrative underscore the fact that DuraSpace is a sound investment in the scholarly ecosystem just in time for the launch of our 2018 Membership Campaign. Thank you to members who have already taken the time to renew their memberships.
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Stefano Cossu, Director of Application Services at The Art Institute of Chicago, gave the Fedora update. The Fedora Project is focused on several key initiatives while investigating ways to work together as a community more effectively and take advantage of opportunities to establish greater interoperability. As a community-supported open source project successful interoperation strategies rely on engaging committers as a fundamental part of creating a team dedicated to interoperation. The Fedora community is Increasingly focused on developing strategies to facilitate collaboration with projects, organizations and initiatives worldwide that includes designating funding for cross-technical work, and especially for collaboration external to DuraSpace and its members. Funding to address efficient cross technical work will enable flexibility in assigning people to projects/tasks.
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VIVO
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 "on ramp" to a launch. Product Director Mike Conlon asked, "is there another OS community that has similar challenges?" It is notable that those institutions with VIVOs are all DuraSpace members in support of VIVO, and are often active community members.
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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)ANKOS Link 2018, Antalya (Turkey), April 17-20, Michele Mennielli
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 - others?