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"We take our role as long-term stewards of digital resources seriously. We had a goal of developing a very feature-rich, flexible institutional repository, and building our own front end on top of Fedora’s strong foundation enabled us to do that quite quickly. We have been able to respond nimbly to user requests for changes and new features, which helped us promote the repository as a useful and valuable service. Because others in the Fedora community share our goals we do not have to negotiate a lot of changes to a big code base. Because our DAMS strategy sits around Fedora we are able to provide flexible support to our user community." Read more here.
DSPACE
Join the New DSpace 7 Efforts–Sign Up for DSpace Slack
DSpace tech lead for DuraSpace Tim Donohue says, "Much remains to be done to have an alpha version of DSpace 7 available for testing in 2017. Stay tuned for broad calls for participation in DSpace 7 development." To join day-to-day conversations please join a new slack dedicated to DSpace 7 development–sign up here. To receive DSpace 7 updates subscribe to the DSpace mailing list updates and follow DSpacetweets on twitter. Read more here.
The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) met recently to discuss and review COAR user stories that outline priority functionalities for next generation repositories. Notes may be found here.
The DSpace 7 UI Outreach Group is working on streamlining communications and outreach tools and tactics focusing on the need for multi-lingual communications to DSpace users in many parts of the world. In support of DSpace 7 technical development the group is reviewing search and browse use cases. if you are interested in joining discussions on Feb, 22 at 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00 please contact Carol Minton Morris <cmmorris@duraspace.org>. COAR Repository Use Cases
VIVO
VIVO 1.9.2 Available, VIVO Camp Registration Deadline Feb 24, Microsoft Academic, Submit Your VIVO17 Proposal
VIVO 1.9.2 was released earlier this month. This is a minor release that addresses an ORCID integration issue, and a problem with creating new items.
Are considering attending VIVO Camp in Albuquerque, Ap 6-8 immediately following CNI and the DuraSpace Summit? Registration ends on Feb 24–reserve your spot now
Could Microsoft Academic be a new data source for VIVO? We are always looking for new data sources for VIVO–Microsoft Academic has an open API and documentation encouraging reuse of the data they have assembled. Their API meets several important criteria for VIVO: 1) It is "open" – you can make open queries up to some limits and then pay fees for higher volume. 2) It identifies works, people and institutions using its own internally consistent keys, 3) Given information about a person, or a collection of people, it can find publications that have a high probability of being authored by those people. You may want to take a look at http://academic.microsoft.com At the present time it is difficult to determine what fees might apply for use of the API in particular institution settings.
Mark your calendars–abstracts for presentations, workshops, posters and demos for the 8th Annual VIVO Conference are due by March 26, 2017!
SERVICES
We are pleased to welcome new DSpaceDirect customers University of Tampa, Yakima Valley Libraries, North American Jewish Culture Inc., and Copenhagen School of Design and Technologycustomers International Development Research Centre, Centenary University, and Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. We also welcome new DuraCloud customer The Wildlife Conservation Society Library & Archivescustomer Georgia College.
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 customersupport@duraspace.org to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers.