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 We're making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, with thanks to our members DuraSpace has achieved 85% of 92% of its membership goals to date. We look forward to keeping that momentum going as we continue our campaign between now and October.
- Electing new leadership groups and facilitating development sprints for DSpace, Fedora and VIVO.
- 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, 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 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 event strengthened our international collaboration with other organizations such as euroCRIS, COAR, ORCID, LA Referencia, as well as, service providers such as 4Science. The delivered a full DSpace-CRIS workshop as a pre-conference event.
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- We launched a new 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 provides an overview of the user community, membership, two brief community profiles, a technical overview, governance, finance, and events.
- Two camps are coming up this fall. A Fedora and Samvera Camp is happening at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts, and there will be a VIVO Camp, October 18-20, 2018, in the Butler Library at Columbia University. There's still time to register! For the Fedora and Samvera Camp click: here, or for VIVO Camp click: here.
- The 5th edition of DSpace Anwendertreffen is in Berlin this year, hosted by the Library of the Technical University Berlin. Over 100 people from Germany, Austria and Switzerland met last week to discuss DSpace case studies and best practices. This was a very important meeting for the DSpace community and for DuraSpace because at this User Group meeting in 2017 the idea of a German Consortium for DSpace membership was launched. As a result today there are 25 new DSpace members in Germany.
- 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. It was announced recently 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.
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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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 just about a month left in our 2018-19 membership campaign only 2 months old here's where we are towards meeting the goals by project:
Total: $903$1,047,500440; 141 159 unique members ; 79% 92% of goalgoal
- DSpace: $208$291,417857; 53 58 members ; 81% 113% of goal
- Fedora: $456$482,667167; 62 71 members; 80% 85% of goal
- VIVO: $147$174,416916; 19 22 members; 71% 84% of goal
General:
$91$98,
000500;
1920 members;
87%95% of goal
If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace<vhollister@duraspace.org>org>.
SERVICES
We are excited to welcome new ArchivesDirect customers the University of Denver, the Glenstone Foundation, and the Archdiocese of Seattle.
Register for a Members Only Hot Topics Webinar
Register today for our upcoming members-only webinar! The “Beyond North America: Widening Access and Participation” webinar will be presented on September 26th at 12:00 p.m. ET. This is the second webinar in our members-only Hot Topics webinar series, "The Revolution Will Be Open?" curated by David Lewis, Indiana University Purdue University Indiana, Dean Emeritus of the University Library, and Michael Roy, Dean of the Library, Middlebury College. They will review progress in the drive to make scholarly content open, discoverable, and accessible through initiatives originating outside the US. The Open Access 2020 Initiative, for example, is a global initiative whose strategy is to accelerate the transition to open access by converting subscription expenditures into funds that support open access; it is coordinated by the Max Planck Society on behalf of the research community and counts over 100 national and international funding organizations, university president’s associations, individual research institutions and library consortia from 36 countries across 4 continents. Colleen Campbell who works on OA2020 and Arianna Becerril García from Redalyc.org will share their experiences on the global open access movement bringing insights from where they sit in Europe and South America.
Learn more and Register Today!
SERVICES
Webinar Registration Open: ArchivesDirect Overview: Standards-Based Preservation with Hosted Archivematica
On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. ET, Sarah Romkey, Archivematica Program Manager from Artefactual Systems and Heather Greer Klein, Services Coordinator from DuraSpace will present a one-hour webinar, “ArchivesDirect Overview: Standards-Based Preservation with Hosted Archivematica.”
This webinar will provide an overview of ArchivesDirect, a hosted instance of Archivematica that includes DuraCloud preservation storage and is provided by DuraSpace in partnership with Artefactual Systems. We’ll cover what hosted Archivematica can do for your organization; how it integrates with other systems and services; and the training and support provided with an ArchivesDirect subscription.
Archivematica is an integrated suite of open-source software tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access in alignment with the OAIS reference model. Together, Archivematica and DuraCloud provide a powerful, fully-hosted digital preservation software and storage solution. ArchivesDirect also includes onboarding and training by digital preservation experts to support your digital preservation goals and processes.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Register today!
DuraCloud 5.0 Release Integrates HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
DuraCloud customers can now select HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) an option for streaming files. HLS is widely supported by browsers and mobile devices and allows for non-Flash video and audio players. HLS is supported by HTML5 video and audio tags. Both open and secure streaming options are available for HLS through DuraCloud.
Development work for this new feature was supported by an Andrew W. Mellon foundation grant awarded to UNC Libraries, titled Extending the Reach of Southern Audiovisual Sources: Implementation.
Detailed release and deployment notes can be found on the DuraCloud GitHub repository.
New Service Customers
We are excited to welcome new DuraCloud customers Surry Community College and Figshare.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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WHERE WE'LL BE THIS FALL
ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DESIGNING STORAGE ARCHITECTURES MEETING, Washington , DC, August 16-17 - Heather Greer Klein
DSPACE ANWENDERREFFEN 2018, Berlin (Germany), September 13, 2018 - Michele Mennielli
Sept 17-18 - Bill Branan
First Brazilian meeting on Open Science and RepositoryBRAZILIAN REPOSITORY WORKSHOP, Brasilia (Brazil), September 18-19 - Michele Mennielli
GEORGIA FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, Tbilisi (Georgia), September 24-26 - Michele Mennielli
iPRES 2018, Boston, MA, Sept. 24-27 - David Wilcox
CONCYTEC CRIS DAYS, Lima (Peru), October 1-3 - Michele Mennielli
SAMVERA CONNECT, Salt Lake City, UT, October 8-12 - David Wilcox
VIVO VIVO CAMP, New York City, Oct 18-20 - Mike Conlon
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