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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
Dear Friends,
Fall is underway as As the winter holidays approach DuraSpace staff, partners and collaborators areon have been on the road sharing news, community accomplishments, information, and technical developments.. We are pleased to report the successful conclusion of the 2027 Membership Campaign.
Recently current and past DuraSpace CEOs (Left to right Debra Hanken Kurtz, Michele Kimpton, and Sandy Payette met at the CNI fall meeting in Washington, DC.
The 2017 DuraSpace Membership Campaign closed at the end of October. By joining DuraSpace this year --- members are now connected with the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects they depend on. DuraSpace members become open source project part-owners who actively help advance project goals by participating in project governance and software planning and development. Thank you to all our members for believing, as we do, in working together to strengthen the open scholarly ecosystem in order to provide enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
While our open source projects proudly provide these applications for free for anyone to use, DuraSpace relies on membership fees to pay for staff who provide technical leadership, strategic planning, financial and business services, and communications, outreach and marketing.
Please join me and the DuraSpace staff in wishing our entire community a joyous holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous new year!
Our thanks and appreciation to you, our members for your support and DuraSpace staff recently completed a 4-day retreat where we set the stage forSince May of Since May 2015 DuraSpace has been honored to partner with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Stanford University and to extend the existing Hydra (now Samvera) project codebase and its vibrant and growing community to build, bundle, and promote a feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository that is easy to install, configure, and maintain is work hss been made possible with generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. As the 30 month grant period comes to a close we are pleased to share the fulfillment of project goals which included working toward offering a cloud-based, hosted version of the application to lower the barrier of entry and expand the number and diversity of institutions capable of leveraging the powerful Hyku digital repository platform (Read more here)
We look forward to seeing you this fall at upcoming conferences and meetings (see "Where We'll Be" below).
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