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DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO=
This month I am pleased to welcome new DuraSpace Board members
Ms. Thaney is an open advocate and Senior Fellow at Mozilla. Most recen= tly she served as the Director of Mozilla Leadership Networks at the Mozill= a Foundation, overseeing community-based programs in science, learning, adv= ocacy, Internet of Things, and women and web literacy. She also founded and= directed Mozilla's first science program=E2=80=93the Mozilla Science Lab= =E2=80=93 empowering thousands of researchers, developers, and librarians t= o collaborate through fellowships, open source, and project-based learning.
Dr. Horstmann is the University=
Librarian at Georg-August-Universit=C3=A4t G=C3=B6ttingen,
The 2017 Membership Campaign kicks= off in April. As current members you will be emailed information prior to = your renewal date. We value and appreciate your continued financial support= , which is critical to ad= vance the DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO open source software projects. While Dur= aSpace proudly provides these applications for free for anyone to use, our = projects rely on your membership dollars to pay for the staff who provide t= echnical leadership, direct strategic planning, organize community outreach= , and coordinate timely software releases.
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
DURASPACE MEMBER SUMMIT<= /p>
DuraSpace Memb= er Summit, April 4-5, 2017
We are looking forward to seeing you soon at the 2017 DuraSpace Member S= ummit will be held on April 3-4 directly following the CNI Spring 2017 Meeting to be held the&nbs= p;Hyatt Regency in Albu= querque, New Mexico.
PROJECTS
FEDORA
Focus on Fedora Contributors, Museums and the Web Workshop
Th= e first article in the monthly Fedora Repository Contributor Profile serie<= /span>s highlights new contributor Danny Bernstein's interes= ts and accomplishments. His current focus is on core Fedora performance iss= ues particularly as they relate to development of the new Hyku repository.&= nbsp;Read more here.
Museums and the Web will be hosted in Cleveland, OH from Apri= l 19-22. The conference features advanced research and exemplary appli= cations of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. = This year's conference includes a workshop on Hydra-in-a-box for museums&= nbsp;led by David Wilcox and Stefano Cossu. Workshop seats are limited so p= lease register in advance.
DSPACE
Face-to-Face with DSpace 7, DSpace 7 Webinar Recordings=
DS= pace community members will be attending conferences and meetings this spri= ng where DSpace 7 UI development will be discussed. If you will be attendin= g as well please reach out to them, "ask about DSpace 7," and find out how = to get involved with community efforts around the development of DSpace 7. = Read more here.
DuraSpace concluded its latest Hot To= pics Webinar Series, "Introducing DSpace 7: Next Generation UI.=E2=80=9D &n= bsp;Curated by Claire Knowles, Library Digital Development Manager, The Uni= versity of Edinburgh, this three-part series began by showcasing the effort= s of the team behind the next generation UI for DSpace highlighting aspects= of DSpace 7 development. Presentation s= lides and webinar recordings are available here: http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.
VIVO
The deadline for presentation abstrac= ts, workshops, posters and demos for the 8th Annual VIVO Conference has bee= n extended until . Submit your proposal now!
David Eichmann, Director and Associat=
e Professor in the School of Library Science at the University of Iowa and =
Rebecca Bryant, Senior Program Officer at OCLC Research will be presenting =
plenary talks at the 8th International V=
IVO Conference. Learn more ab=
out them at the conference website
SERVICES
We are pleased to welcome new DSpaceDirect customer Ashesi Universit= y College and new DuraCloud customer Colorado College= a>.
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 cust= omers to provide personalized on-boarding processes and superb custome= r support. Our services can provide open access to institutional resources,= preservation of treasured collections, and simplified data management tool= s. Contact customersupport@duraspace.org&nb= sp;to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers.