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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 Chief Financial Officer at DuraSpace and Bill Branan, Services Technical Director assisting with this process.
If we haven’t had a chance to meet allow me to introduce myself.
I’m a Canadian and have been a librarian in . I have worked with open source software (OSS) and communities since 2011. I started my career with in the Islandora community and have worked on more than forty OSS digital repository projects. Before entering into the world of open source, I ran my own small research business called CloudScout Information Services and worked in a small research library at Environment Canada.
My work at DuraSpace to date has been focused on building new initiatives related to grant projects, delivering professional services that support open projects and services, as well as programs that foster collaboration with open source service providers. Recently, in 2018 I participated in the Mozilla Open Leadership Training Series and applied it to building communities efforts around our open source DuraCloud software and the ARKs-in-the-Open project. I’m also an active member of the Research Data Canada (RDC) Infrastructure Committee.
My interim role as DuraSpace CEO will have me coordinating day-to-day operations of DuraSpace over the next few months , and carrying out ongoing initiatives that deliver on DuraSpace’s mission , and assisting in the search for a permanent CEO.with our team.
DuraSpace's Our team has achieved some big goals this past month, including:
- 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, including
Making public new DSpace 7 Updates from OR2018, Including a Recorded DSpace 7 Demo
Participating in a presentation with @euroCRIS_Org & @OCLC global on a survey of research information management practices (RIM) presented at euroCRIS: Link to MM slides to come
- Delivering three webinars focused on DuraCloud, VIVO and the 2.5% Commitment: Investing in Open
- Slides Here are the slides and recordings
- Formalizing plans to include entities support in DSpace 7 (waiting on DSpace Steering communication coming soon) : Statement from the DSpace Steering Group
- Announcing 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.
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.
With many thanks for your support and participation.
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Interim CEO
2018 Membership Campaign (pls update Val-IN PROGRESS)
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Thank you to each of our renewing DuraSpace members for your continued support. With the 2018-19 DuraSpace Membership Campaign only two months old we are are already have 135??? members who have have so far contributed $813,500???. You each have joined DuraSpace in the vital effort to provide technical leadership, sustainability strategic planning, fundraising, community development, community outreach, software release coordination, and marketing and communications , collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration to the DSpaceto the DSpace, Fedora , and VIVO and CASRAI open source projects. We only have another $327,000 to raise to reach our annual goal. HereWith the 2018-19 membership campaign only 2 months old here's where we are towards meeting targets the goals by project:
Total: $813$903,500; 135 141 unique members; 71% 79% of goal ???? update with CASRAI
- DSpace: $208,417; 53 members; 81% of goal
- Fedora: $381$456,667; 56 62 members; 67% 80% of goal
- VIVO: $137$147,416; 19 members; 66% 71% of goal
- CASRAI: ????
- Samvera: ????
- General: $86$91,000; 18 19 members ; 83% 87% of goal
If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace<vhollister@duraspace.org>org>.
Leadership Group
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Elections
In May
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Earlier this month we launched the nomination phase of our Leadership Group election process for our projects. Each DuraSpace project has representative, community-based governance model that includes several governing groups with various levels of responsibility. Eligibility to serve in project governance is determined by participation in the DuraSpace Membership Program. Individuals sitting on the Leadership Group for each project play a key role in setting the strategic direction and priorities of the project through the approval of the annual budget allocation and project roadmap and establishing the annual community direction. Leaders also nominate the members of the project Steering Group. Nominations are made by the appointed The designated Community Liaison at each member institution . Their role includes both takes part in the nomination of a candidate from your institution (if there is an open Leadership Group seat) and voting in the election on behalf of your institution which will take place later this month. If election (if an election is necessary) process. We're pleased to welcome and in some cases, welcome back those members in the Leadership Groups of DSpace (LINK TBD), Fedora, and VIVO. We are now in the process of electing community Leadership Group members for DSpace (LINK TBD), Fedora, and VIVO and will share those results with you next month! If you have any questions about the Leadership Group election process please contact Kristi Searle.
SERVICES
Webinar recording: DuraCloud in 2018: What’s New? What’s Next for the Software & the Service?
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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.
DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event
We’d like to invite you to the first DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event with our Strategic Partner euroCRIS.
The DSpace and CRIS Systems one-day Workshop will focus on interoperability between DSpace repositories and CRIS systems iprior to the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden - on Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
During the DSpace and CRIS systems workshop, DSpace users will have a great opportunity to meet to identify existing examples of integration between DSpace and CRIS systems and to discuss functionalities that DSpace could implement in the future in order to support workflows traditionally associated with Research Information Systems more effectively.
The workshop agenda is now available: http://www.cris2018.se/schedule/ if you’re interested in participating please let us know using this form.
WHERE WE'LL BE THIS SUMMER (All Please UPDATE)CASRAI-CA Reconnect18, Ottawa, Canada, May 23/24 - David Baker
CASRAI-UK Reconnect18, Glasgow, UK, June 25/26 - David Baker
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