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It has been an eventful summer. DuraSpace welcomed two new staff members from Canada and Italy. We look forward to working with Erin Tripp and Michele Mennielli to engage more effectively with our international adopters and potential partners. We traveled to Brisbane, Wrocław, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC to talk about preserving and making accessible and discoverable our collective cultural heritage and academic record. The DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO projects held user group meetings, workshops, and conferences to learn more about your work and to connect people with each other to fortify an already vibrant community of developers, endusers, and administrators. We are most grateful to our hosts at Georgetown, Texas A&M, and Cornell Cornell, and the University of Oxford for their generosity in organizing and providing venues for these events. Your support makes it possible for a greater diversity of institutions and individuals to participate in Open Source Software community activities.
To promote inclusivity and a safe and welcoming environment for all, this spring DuraSpace worked with leaders on the various projects and with the Board of Directors to draft a code Code of conductConduct to guide us in all our activities. Thanks, to those of you who contributed to the text. We will review it at the Board meeting next spring and I will solicit input from the community closer to the date of that reviewmeeting.
We congratulate the University of Houston Libraries who in August were awarded an IMLS grant to develop migration tooling for ingesting collections to Hyku from CONTENTdm. When they received the news as they were cleaning up after sustaining flood damage from Hurricane Harvey. As I write, our nation braces for the arrival of Irma and we We extend our thoughts and support for our colleagues in Floridathe Carolinas, Georgia, and the Carolinas.especially Florida who were directly in Hurricane Irma's path only a couple of weeks later.
On a On an even more solemn note, we mourn the loss of Heather Heyer and with our colleagues around the world condemn the acts of violence and bigotry by white supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups in Charlottesville responsible for her death. We have strengthened our resolve to promote and provide inclusive communities and to advocate for All Things Open. We double down on our commitment to serve libraries, museums, archives, and scholars of every stripe to share freely and without fear the collections, perspectives, and ideas that illustrate the beauty in our differences and unite us in our shared mission to promote civil discourse and academic freedom for all.
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CEO
2017 Membership Update UPDATED 9/7/17
Many thanks to our members who have already renewed their membership for 2017 and to those who have joined DuraSpace for the first time as new members. New members include:
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The data collection will be done through mediated surveys (interview-style) with Erin Tripp in person, on the phone, or via Skype. If you prefer, you can also fill out the survey online by yourself. Please express your interest in participating by emailing Erin Tripp at etripp@duraspace.org.
WHERE WE'LL BE
ALL STAFF - Please Update - Let's normalize display for all events before publishing. -dhk - Added locations and alphabetized attendees, no 'and' just commas to separate names.
VIVO Camp
Want to find out more about VIVO, and how it can help your institution showcase it's research and scholarly activity? VIVO Camp is the place to be! Come and join us and experienced teachers at beautiful Duke University for two and a half days of in depth training. Camp runs from November 9th through 11th. Regsitration is currently open at: https://goo.gl/ocvznb
DSpace North American User Group Meeting
On Aug 22-23, 2017 the Georgetown University Library hosted a DSpace North American User Meeting in Washington. The idea was to offer the DSpace Community the possibility to share ideas, best practices and use cases at a Regional level (in this specific case, the US Region) and, at the same time, to present the vision and roadmap for the new DSpace 7 UI project. There were 39 attendees from 22 different institutions at the meeting and the discussion was vibrant and engaging. All the detail information about the meeting, the slides presented and the content shared are publicly available at: https://github.com/terrywbrady/dspaceUserMeeting/blob/master/README.md
Fedora Camp Texas
Fedora Camp Texas, co-hosted by Texas Digital Library and the University of Texas Libraries, will be offered at the University of Texas at Austin's Perry-Castañeda Library in Austin October 16-18, 2017. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Fedora experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep dive Fedora learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers and Fedora gurus.
Register today and join us in Austin! Local accommodations are available at a reduced rate.
WHERE WE'LL BE THIS FALL
PASIG, Oxford, U.K., Sept September 11-13, Erin Tripp and Michele Mennielli
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The DSpace Anwendertreffen, Stuttgart, Germany, Sept September 21, Michele Mennielli
iPRES, Kyoto, Japan, September 25-29, David Wilcox
It Takes a Village Forum, Baltimore, MD, October 4, 5, Debra Hanken Kurtz, David Wilcox
Fedora Camp Texas, Austin, TX, Oct October 16-18, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods
North Carolina Library Association Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, October 17th-20th, Heather Greer Klein
DLF Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct October 23-25, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Erin Tripp, David Wilcox
FORCE2017, Berlin, Germany Oct October 25-27, Michele Mennielli
Samvera Connect, Evanston, IL November 6-9, Debra Hanken Kurtz, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods
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CNI Fall 2017 Membership Meeting, Washington, DC, Dec 11-12, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Erin Tripp, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods
NOT INCLUDED IN SEPTEMBER
DSpace
Tim to help complete
Update on North American DSpace User Meeting hosted by Georgetown University Library Aug 22-23. More information here.
Save for October - Update on The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2017 (formally known as German DSpace User Group Meeting) will take place on September 21, 2017 More information here.
Fedora
David to help complete
Update on Fedora and Samvera (formerly Hydra) Camp at Oxford University, Sept 4 - 8, 2017.
VIVO
Mike to help complete
Update on 2017 VIVO Conference to be held in NYC Aug 2-4.
Update on VIVO Community Survey (help in understanding how institutions and organizations use VIVO). Fill out the survey.
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