Dear Friends,
It was great seeing many of you in St. Louis at the DuraSpace Summit this month. With your support our organization took significant steps forward in 2018. The 2018 DuraSpace Annual Report is now available with an overview of accomplishments, finances, and global membership. Download the Annual Report here. Also, for the benefit of members who were not in attendance, I'm sharing slides and speaking notes from the Summit.
- President's Welcome, State of DuraSpace, Panel Discussion "Supporting Open Infrastructure in an Evolving Landscape"
- DSpace Report
- Fedora Report
- VIVO Report
Our annual membership campaign is underway. I want to thank you in advance for your continued support of DuraSpace as we complete our merger with LYRASIS. I'm pleased to report that we have reached 78% of our overall goal with contributions totaling $847,000 in one month.
The preview release of DSpace 7 is now available (5/15–more to come).
DuraSpace staff members are looking forward to seeing some of you at OR2019, June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany where DuraSpace projects, partners and initiatives will be represented in workshops and presentations.The complete program including links to abstracts can be browsed via ConfTool. Here is a list of a few of many OR2019 workshops that may be of interest:
June 10, Docker for DSpace – Lowering the Barrier of Entry for New Contributors
June 10, DSpace 6 Repository Data Management with GLAMpipe
June 10, Repository and CRIS Interoperability
June 10, Getting Started with DSpace 7
June 10, Introduction to Fedora 5.0 and the API Specification
In addition, we are pleased to invite you to submit proposals by June 21 for the upcoming North American DSpace Users Meeting to be held September 23 and 24, 2019 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or feedback.
Warm regards,
Erin Tripp
Executive Director
Where We'll Be
LYRASIS Leaders Circle, Pittsburg, PA, May 30, 2019, Andrew Woods, Carol Minton Morris
Fedora Camp, Atlanta, Georgia May 20 – 22, 2019, Andrew Woods, David Wilcox, Danny Bernstein
euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Espoo/Helsinki, May 27-29, Michele Mennielli
Open Repositories 2019, Hamburg, Germany, June 10-13, 2019, Andrew Woods, David Wilcox, Michele Mennielli, Tim Donohue
VIVO Conference, Podgorica, Montenegro September 4-6, 2019, Michele Mennielli, Andrew Woods
