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- Making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, DuraSpace has achieved 85% 90% 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.
- Offeirng Offering a Fedora and Samvera Camp at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Fedora or Samvera experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep dive into a Fedora and Samvera learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers from both communities. Register here. 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 the our 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 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. The delivered who delivered a full DSpace-CRIS workshop as a pre-conference event.Offering a VIVO Camp, October 18-20, 2018, in the Butler Library at Columbia University. This multi-day training event is designed specifically for new and prospective users. VIVO Camp will begin with an introduction to VIVO leading to a comprehensive overview over two and a half days. Register here.
- 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.
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