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The summer has flown by–I hope everyone has had some vacation time to recharge! I enjoyed seeing many of you in Charlottesville at the SHARE Annual Meeting in July. The presentations were interesting, and as usual, conversations at breaks helped spark new ideas for collaborations. This summer we've focused on establishing greater working relationships with global partners in talks with Mark Leggott at Research Data Canada, Kathleen Shearer at COAR, and Michele Mennielli at CINECA about ways to collaborate to promote open data and research internationally. I look forward to sharing details about these efforts in the coming months.
This week I am traveling to in Denver, Colorado to participate in the 7th Annual VIVO Conference. The conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with researchers and administrators from around the world to learn more about VIVO at their institutions, and to explore new opportunities. A detailed conference schedule can be found online at http://www.vivoconference.org/.
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Many thanks to our members who have already renewed their membership for 2016, and to those who have joined DuraSpace for the first time as new members. Members have so far contributed $908$938,750; 113 117 members joining DuraSpace in the vital effort to provide technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration to the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects. Read more here.
Here's the breakdown:
Total: $908$938,750; 113 117 members; 72% 75% of budget
- DSpace $172DSpace: $174,000500; 64% 65% of budget
- Fedora $459: $487,750; 58; 79%250; 84% of budget
- VIVO: $204,500; 15; 63%63% of budget
- General: $72,500; 15; 91% of budget
PROJECTS
FEDORA
Fedora project community members are on the road all over the world this fall–from Germany, Switzerland, and all over the US you can touch base face-to-face with team members in multiple locations. See "Where We'll Be" below. Activities include training and opportunities to learn more about the growing Fedora community of users and developers.
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- A major refactor of our underlying Java API (supporting UUIDs and Hibernate) which will help ease ongoing maintenance efforts and better support future roadmap goals and new UI implementation. See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Service+based+api
- Enhanced configuration system, supporting auto-reloadable configurations and easier management of local settings (via a local.cfg file). See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Enhanced+Configuration+Scheme
- Enhanced file (bitstream) storage plugins, including support for Amazon S3 file storage. Seehttps://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Storage+Layer#StorageLayer-ConfiguringtheBitstreamStore
- Configurable site healthcheck (i.e. repository status) reports via email. See https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2659
- REST API enhancements:
- Robust quality control reports for collection managers built on the REST API. See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/REST+Based+Quality+Control+Reports
- Support for all authentication methods via REST (e.g. Shibboleth, LDAP, etc)
- XMLUI enhancements:
- New framework for metadata import from external sources (including out-of-the-box plugins supporting PubMed and ScienceDirect). This concept was previously only supported in JSPUI.
- Extensible administrative control panel
- Export of XMLUI search results to CSV (for bulk metadata editing). This feature was previously only supported in JSPUI.
(Tim Donohue and Jonathan Markow please review and add any dspace-related events you or other staff will attend below "Where We'll Be")
VIVO
This week the VIVO community kicks off the 7th Annual VIVO Conference in Denver with workshops, keynotes, invited speakers, panels, project sessions and more. A focus on OpenVIVO, a VIVO that anyone can join, and a panel discussion, "Persistent Identifiers: Where we are now and the role of Networking Profile Systems in Shaping Their Future" are among many conference highlights.
VIVO 1.9 was released on August 8, 2016 with several significant new features that will improve the user experience and make it simpler to implement VIVO. The new Capability Map feature matches research areas with experts in a visual interface that allows users to see the relationship between research areas and researchers. Read more here.
You can help VIVO by participating in a short survey of all organizations considering VIVO, implementing VIVO or maintaining VIVO. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete and does not require technical expertise. Please help us set new directions for VIVO by sharing your thoughts and experiences with us. The survey is anonymous. We would be happy to hear from each member of the VIVO community. Survey results will be tabulated and presented in a poster at the VIVO Conference and on this wiki following the conference.
Please take 10 minutes to share your thoughts about VIVO with us. The survey is here: https://goo.gl/rkr964(Mike Conlon please edit/add and list any VIVO-related events you or other staff will attend below "Where We'll Be")
SERVICES
New users and the The suite of DuraSpace Web Services
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DuraSpace Web Services include ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud. Learn more about any of the hosted services DuraSpace offers, please visit their web sites or contact info@duracloud.org.
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