Dear Friends,
As DuraSpace staff join community members everywhere in celebrating summer holidays we want to provide you with an update you Along with the onset of cooler weather here is our monthly update on current and ongoing initiatives.We are focused on ongoing strategic initiatives, strategic initiatives including:
- Making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, with thanks to our members DuraSpace has achieved 90% (update) of its membership goals to date. We look forward to keeping that momentum going as we continue our campaign between now and October.
- The DuraSpace Registered Service Provider (RSP) Program has been restructured and rebranded in 2018 as the DuraSpace Service Provider (DSP) Program.
- Electing new leadership groups and facilitating development sprints for DSpace, Fedora and VIVO. The DSpace Community Annual Report 2017 – July 2018 is now available. The Report provides an overview of the user community, membership, two brief community profiles, a technical overview, governance, finance, and events.
- Offering a Fedora and Samvera Camp at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts, and offering a VIVO Camp, October 18-20, 2018, in the Butler Library at Columbia University.
- Working with TU Berlin (Technical University Berlin) to create our first consortial membership 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, for helping to coordinate with the Technical University Berlin 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 and had 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 event strengthened our international collaboration with other organizations such as euroCRIS, COAR, ORCID, LA Referencia, as well as, service providers such as 4Science who delivered a full DSpace-CRIS workshop as a pre-conference event.
- There's still time to register for Fedora and Samvera Camp here, or for VIVO Camp here.
- Continuing successful international outreach initiatives with The DSpace Anwendertreffen (more details from Mic and upcoming South American event?). We will also participate in a Digitisation and Digital Preservation Workshop Nov 6-9, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya
- 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. The VIVO 2019 Conference will be held Sept 4-6, 2019 in Podgorica, Montenegro in collaboration with The School of Medicine at University of Montenegro, Clinical Center of Montenegro, and the Institute of Public Health of Montenegro.
As we continue to work on these initiatives as well as on and other new and emerging opportunitiesinitiatives, DuraSpace staff and board members remain grateful for our community’s financial support, and for their engagement in our work aimed at providing enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
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2018 Membership Campaign (UPDATE COMPLETE AS OF 8/15Update)
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 a little over two months left in our 2018-19 membership campaign here's where we are towards meeting the goals by project:
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If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>.
SERVICES (Update)
We are excited to welcome new ArchivesDirect customers the University of Denver, the Glenstone Foundation, and the Archdiocese of Seattle.
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WHERE WE'LL BE THIS FALL
ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018, Washington, DC, August 16-17 - Heather Greer Klein
DSPACE ANWENDERREFFEN 2018, Berlin (Germany), September 13, 2018 - Michele Mennielli
BRAZILIAN REPOSITORY WORKSHOP, Brasilia (Brazil), September 18-19 - Michele Mennielli
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