Dear Friends,
As the winter holiday season approaches I am happy to extend warm greetings from everyone here at DuraSpace and sincere best wishes for a healthy and prosperous New Year! We look forward to working with you in 2019.
- DuraSpace received a grant to connect preservation storage services through a common deposit layer based on DuraCloud open source software to to research data preservation in Canada. The project “DuraCloud Canada: Linking Data Repositories to Preservation Storage” is a collaboration with the University of Toronto Libraries , Scholars Portal and COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) is funded by CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation.
- DSpace, Fedora and VIVO Leadership Group chairs discuss their upcoming priorities here.
- Fedora 5.0 is currently in release testing. (update with release info)
- The 2019 North American DSpace User Group Meeting will be held at the University of Minnesota April 22, 2019
- The VIVO Project is planning an invited architectural fly-in to develop architectural approaches to addressing the statement of direction for 2019. You can read more about the fly-in here 2019 Architectural Fly-in
We are grateful for your support of our work on these and other initiatives aimed at providing enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
Warm regards,
Erin Tripp
Executive Director
The 2019 DuraSpace Summit
Country-specific Webinar
Report here on numbers, recording Kristi Searle
Where We'll Be please update with upcoming engagements through Jan.
