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The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
The table of DSpace Leadership Group Nominees below will be used for the upcoming election. To make a nomination/s please complete the form at http://bit.ly/LGnomination. Self-nominations are welcome! After nominations are verified with the nominee they will be added to this page along with the nominee's personal statement. For a list of eligible Member organizations, visit http://bit.ly/dspace_members.
| Member Level Candidacy | Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement (can include an indication of individual's involvement/experience with DSpace at their institution and with the broader DSpace community and/or some detail about what he/she believes should be the current priorities and/or long term strategies for the project0. |
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| Bronze | Amy Buckland
| The University of Chicago Library | Institutional Repository Manager | "I have been involved with the repository community for over six years and in my new position at UChicago, am charged with implementing DSpace to meet current researcher needs. I therefore bring both fresh eyes to DSpace and what it is like to implement, as well as a deep understanding of the issues currently facing academic institutions, especially with regards to new policies around federally-funded research and preservation of research output and how repositories like DSpace fit into the scholarly ecosystem. Given the current repository environment, I think it is essential that DSpace work towards collaboration with other systems and integration into as many workflows as possible. Deposit requirements from funding agencies will soon become the norm internationally, and institutions will be eager to work with robust format-agnostic tools.” |
| Bronze | Sara Lee | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library | Digital Repository Librarian | "I'm currently the Digital Repository Library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I've only recently taken the reins from a manager who has been growing our DSpace repository, ScholarSpace, since 2007. So, I'm still learning about DSpace and also about how to best manage, expand, and promote institutional repositories. I am also still learning about current concerns and future directions for repositories and repository software, but am very interested in better understanding and developing DSpace goals going forward."
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| Bronze | Wally Grotophorst | George Mason University | Associate University Librarian | "I set up our initial DSpace instance in 2004 and since that time have been actively involved in both our campus IR and the development of the DSpace platform. While the platform has evolved, the basic idea of what DSpace should be hasn't really changed all that much: a sustainable, open-source digital archiving system that systematizes workflows, preserves bitstreams and exposes metadata in standard ways. Going forward I believe we should adhere to those basics while focusing on how we integrate the content within our DSpace collections with external services. For example, my personal interest involves populating an Omeka-based front-end with content stored in DSpace (e.g., an API that would let me pull a primary bitstream from DSpace) but I am certain there are many other sorts of intersections that could be beneficial to the platform. Focusing on integration of DSpace with library publishing programs is another area of personal interest." |
Bronze | Andrew Preater | Imperial College London | Team Leader, Systems and Innovation Support Services | I am nominating Andrew to serve the DSpace community on the leadership group as he has a broad range of strategic and technical knowledge and expertise that make him well-placed for this role. At Imperial College, Andrew is business owner for our DSpace research repository and a point of liaison between colleagues in IT, Library Services, and our Research Office for development and promotion of our DSpace service. As such he understands community needs around Open Access publishing, scholarly communication, and current issues affecting the development of DSpace as well as the more specific repository needs of staff and student users at a research-intensive university. In previous roles in higher education Andrew has led technical and customer-facing systems projects including systems migrations, implementation of library discovery systems, and performed technical support and management of repository systems. These projects have included budget responsibility for systems implementations and development of technical project roadmaps. Additionally he has experience engaging with broad communities of stakeholders in the United States and elsewhere from work on an open source library systems project with the Kuali Foundation at a previous workplace." |
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