Dear Friends,
As DuraSpace staff join community members everywhere in celebrating summer holidays we want to provide you with an update you on current and ongoing initiatives.
We are focused on ongoing strategic initiatives, including:
Making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, DuraSpace has achieved 85% of its membership goals to date. We look forward to keeping that momentum going as we continue our campaign between now and October.
Working with TU Berlin (Technical University Berlin) to create the first consortial membership: we are very pleased to welcome 24 German Institutions to the DSpace community. We are confident that their contributions and participation will help DSpace achieve important goals in the coming year! Special thanks to Pascal-Nicolas Becker, The Library Code GmbH, for helping to coordinate with the Technical University Berlin (please check this sentence for accuracy Michele Mennielli) to make this achievement possible.
Continuing our international outreach initiatives with a tremendous event in Lima, Peru where about 300 representatives from all Peruvian universities attended a DSpace Workshop (delivered in collaboration with Joan Caparros from CSUC, the Catalan Consortium of Universities). This DSpace Workshop was the first one in the country with the most attendees in DSpace history. The event was hosted by CONCYTEC, the Peruvian Council for Science and Technological Information, as a pre-conference event during their National Conference on Research Information. The conference, attracted more than 500 attendees and was a great opportunity for DuraSpace to meet with the Peruvian community of users, to listen to and learn about their needs and expectations. At the same time it strengthened our international collaboration with other organizations such as euroCRIS, COAR, ORCID, LA Referentia. These organizations all presented their views and activities related to the research information and scholarly ecosystem, as well as our Service Providers who are active in the Region. 4Science organized a workshop focused on DSpace-CRIS within the one-day DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event held on June 13, 2018 which focused on interoperability between DSpace repositories and CRIS systems.
Electing new leadership groups and facilitating development sprints for DSpace, Fedora and VIVO.
Providing open project consulting to groups such as the ARKs-in-the-Open project, which recently held its inaugural advisory group meeting to kick-off a new community management approach.
As we continue to work on these initiatives and new emerging opportunities, DuraSpace staff and board members remain grateful for our community’s financial support, and for their engagement in our work to provide enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
Warm regards,
Erin Tripp
Interim CEO
2018 Membership Campaign (pls update Valorie Hollister)
Thank you to each of our renewing DuraSpace members for your continued support. You each have joined DuraSpace in the vital effort to provide technical leadership, strategic planning, community outreach, software release coordination, and marketing and communications to the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO open source projects. With the 2018-19 membership campaign only 2 months old here's where we are towards meeting the goals by project:
Total: $903,500; 141 unique members; 79% of goal
- DSpace: $208,417; 53 members; 81% of goal
- Fedora: $456,667; 62 members; 80% of goal
- VIVO: $147,416; 19 members; 71% of goal
- General: $91,000; 19 members ; 87% of goal
If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>.
SERVICES
We are excited to welcome new ArchivesDirect customers the University of Denver, the Glenstone Foundation, and the Archdiocese of Seattle.
Visit us in the exhibit hall August 17th and 18th at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018, booth 412, to learn more about DuraSpace services!
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 Heather Greer Klein to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers, and to learn about special discounts for new DuraCloud subscribers who are DuraSpace members at the Silver level and above.
WHERE WE'LL BE THIS SUMMER (All Please UPDATE) - should we add September events? Yes Michele Mennielli David Wilcox
ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018, Washington, DC, August 16-17 - Heather Greer Klein
VIVO CAMP, New York City, Oct 18-20 - Mike Conlon
FEDORA AND SAMVERA CAMP, Berlin, Nov 5-8 - David Wilcox, Andrew Woods