The DuraSpace organization is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization . The organization that is the result of the joining of Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two not-for-profits originally established to sustain the their open source repository systems that bear their names (i.e., Fedora and DSpace)software. The two organizations joined combined forces to pursue a common mission and to expand their offerings into cloud computing and scholarly/scientific "cyberinfrastructure" for universities, libraries and research institutions, archives, museums, NGOs, and more.
DuraSpace is committed to providing technologies and services that help ensure that our digital heritage is accessible over the long term. Accordingly, the DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue of durability of digital content. Durability is not only essential for high integrity access to digital information, but it is also a necessary pre-requisite to the process of digital preservation as expressed in the DuraSpace organizational byline, "Open technologies for durable digital content."
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