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Along with the onset of cooler weather here is our monthly update on current and ongoing strategic initiatives including:
- Making We're making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, with thanks to our members DuraSpace has achieved 90% (update) of 92% of its membership goals to date.
- The We launched a new DuraSpace Registered Service Provider (RSPDSP) Program has been restructured and rebranded in 2018 as the DuraSpace Service Provider (DSP) Program.
. Check out the 21 companies who are helping lower barriers to open source software on our new service provider listing page. - The DSpace Community for the first time ever, published an annual report! The 2017-2018 Annual Report is now available. It 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 Two camps are coming up this fall. A Fedora and Samvera Camp at is happening at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts, and offering a VIVO there will be a VIVO Camp, October 18-20, 2018, in the Butler Library at Columbia University. There's still time to register for ! For the Fedora and Samvera Camp click: here, or for VIVO Camp click: here.
- Continuing successful Our international outreach initiatives continue with The DSpace Anwendertreffen (more details from Mic and upcoming South American event?). , an annual meeting of the minds for DSpace users in Germany. We will also participate in a Digitisation and Digital Preservation Workshop Nov 6-9, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- The A recent announcement that 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.
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Interim CEO
2018 Membership Campaign (Update)
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:
Total: $1,024047,940440; 157 159 unique members ; 90% 92% of goalgoal
- DSpace: $271 $291,857; 57 58 members ; 106% 113% of goal
- Fedora: $479$482,667167; 70 71 members; 84% 85% of goal
- VIVO: $174,916; 22 members; 84% of goal
- General: $98,500; 20 members; 95% of goal
If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace<vhollister@duraspace.org>org>.
SERVICES (Update)
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.
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