DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
February 20
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
This month we take an exciting step towards focusing our efforts to expand collaborations with academic, scientific, cultural, technology, and research communities in support of projects and services to help ensure that current and future generations will have access to our collective digital heritage. The DuraSpace organization seeks a Business Development Manager to cultivate and deepen those relationships and partnerships with international organizations and consortia to elevate the organization’s profile and to expand the services it offers. If you know of someone who would be well-suited to join our dynamic team please point them to the full job description here. Inquires may be sent to me at <dkurtz@duraspace.org>.
We are also working steadily with our Hydra-In-A-Box partners at DPLA and Stanford to release the Hyku repository minimum viable product, a HykuDirect hosted service pilot program, and a higher-performing aggregation system at DPLA this spring. Stay tuned for more information by signing up to receive the bi-monthly Hydra-In-A-Box Update here.
Do you have a few minutes–less than five? We would very much appreciate capturing your ideas about how we can be of greater service to our community through this brief 4-question survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z6ZDN7X. Thank you in advance!
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
DURASPACE MEMBER SUMMIT
DuraSpace Member Summit, April 4-5, 2017
The 2017 DuraSpace Member Summit will be held on April 3-4 directly following the CNI Spring 2017 Meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Be sure and book your hotel room soon!
PROJECTS
FEDORA
Fedora 4 at the University of Alberta, Fedora 4.7.1 Released
DSPACE
Join DSpace 7 Slack, COAR Repository Use Cases
VIVO
VIVO 1.9.2 Available, VIVO Camp Registration Deadline Feb 24, Microsoft Academic
SERVICES
We are pleased to welcome new DSpaceDirect customers University of Tampa, Yakima Valley Libraries, North American Jewish Culture Inc., and Copenhagen School of Design and Technology. We also welcome new DuraCloud customer The Wildlife Conservation Society Library & Archives.
ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud services from DuraSpace are built on solid open source software platforms and require very little effort to start up. DuraSpace staff experts work directly with service customers to provide personalized on-boarding processes and superb customer support. Our services can provide open access to institutional resources, preservation of treasured collections, and simplified data management tools. Contact customersupport@duraspace.org to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers.
