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I will serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to help transition DuraSpace to new leadership. I'm very fortunate to have Valorie Hollister, Director of Membership and Finance (Should change to reflect Val's new title, Chief Financial Officer, consistent w/ the Meet the Team page) at DuraSpace and Bill Branan, Services Technical Director assisting with this process.
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- Launching our new website, https://duraspace.org/
- Announcing a collaborative partnership with COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
- Representing our technologies and communities at the Open Repositories conference, VIVO Conference, and CRIS Conference
- Delivering three webinars focused on DuraCloud, VIVO and the 2.5% Commitment: Investing in Open
- Formalizing plans to include entities support in DSpace 7 (waiting on : Statement from the DSpace Steering communication coming soon) Group
We are delighted to share news of these initiatives and our team looks forward to continuing to support projects and advance services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. You may be interested in participating in a new 3-4 month task force initiated by ORCiD aimed at gathering input on repository community needs regarding ORCID and on a set of recommendations for supporting ORCID in repository platforms. More information here.
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