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Making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, DuraSpace has achieved 85% of its membership goals to date. We look forward to keeping that momentum going as we continue our campaign between now and October.
Working with TU Berlin (Technical University Berlin) to create the first consortial membership: we are very pleased to welcome 24 German Institutions to the DSpace community. We are confident that their contributions and participation will help DSpace achieve important goals in the coming year! Special thanks to Pascal-Nicolas Becker, for helping to coordinate with the Technical University Berlin (Pascal has been working on this for TU Berlin, not as a library code) to Berlin to make this achievement possible.
Continuing our international outreach initiatives with a tremendous event in Lima, Peru where about 300 representatives from all Peruvian universities attended a DSpace Workshop (delivered in collaboration with Joan Caparros from CSUC, the Catalan Consortium of Universities). This DSpace Workshop was the first one in the country with the most attendees in DSpace history. The event was hosted by CONCYTEC, the Peruvian Council for Science and Technological Information, as a pre-conference event during their National Conference on Research Information. The conference, attracted more than 500 attendees and was a great opportunity for DuraSpace to meet with the Peruvian community of users, to listen to and learn about their needs and expectations. At the same time it strengthened our international collaboration with other organizations such as euroCRIS, COAR, ORCID, LA Referencia. These organizations all presented their views and activities related to the research information and scholarly ecosystem, as well as our Service Providers who are active in the Region. Among them, 4Science delivered a full DSpace-CRIS workshop too as a pre-conference event (the workshop they delivered was in Peru as well, we shouldn't mention the one in Sweden in this paragraph)event.
Electing new leadership groups and facilitating development sprints for DSpace, Fedora and VIVO.
Providing open project consulting to groups such as the ARKs-in-the-Open project, which recently held its inaugural advisory group meeting to kick-off a new community management approach.
As we continue to work on these initiatives as well as on new and new emerging opportunities, DuraSpace staff and board members remain grateful for our community’s financial support, and for their engagement in our work to provide aimed at providing enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
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WHERE WE'LL BE THIS SUMMER (All Please UPDATE) - should we add September events? Yes Michele Mennielli David Wilcox FALL
ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018, Washington, DC, August 16-17 - Heather Greer Klein
DSpace Anwendertreffen DSPACE ANWENDERREFFEN 2018, Berlin (Germany), September 13, 2018 - Michele Mennielli
Brazilian Repository WorkshopBRAZILIAN REPOSITORY WORKSHOP, Brasilia (Brazil), September 18-19 - Michele Mennielli
Georgia Festival of Science and InnovationGEORGIA FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, Tbilisi (Georgia), September 24-26 - Michele Mennielli
CONCYTEC CRIS DaysDAYS, Lima (Peru), October 1-3 - Michele Mennielli
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