Dear Friends,
The In October DuraSpace look 's work across the scholarly ecosystem landscape includes included several notable highlights:
- We announced a new strategic partnership with OpenAIRE aimed at ensuring that to ensure repositories are using up-to-date technologies and adopting international standards and protocols.
- A Fedora We planned a Fedora and Samvera Camp is Camp that's happening at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts.
- VIVO was recently highlighted at Force 11 in Montreal.
- We welcome Ontocale, our newest participant in the DuraSpace Service Provider (DSP) program. Ontocale is a Certified DuraSpace Contributor offering VIVO services. (link to come)welcomed our newest DSpaceDirect customer, Houston Baptist University.
- We announced As our global community continues to expand DuraSpace is pleased to announce the first Country-specific Webinar Series, offered with the support of Neki IT, focused on DSpace in Brazil. The series will be presented in the Portuguese languageis in Portuguese and you can find more information in the new WIKI space dedicated to the DSpace Brazilian User Group.
Thank you for supporting our work on these and other initiatives aimed at providing enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
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We are in the final days of the active 2018-19 DuraSpace Membership Campaign ! We and are within $53,000 of our DuraSpace goal. ! Here's where we are towards meeting the goals by project:
Total: $1,087,773; 166 unique members ; 95% of goal
- DSpace: $299,524; 61 members ; 116% of goal / I would suggest to consider all the members, including the German ones that form the Consortium. I think the total should be around 86 members. On our website we're listing all of the German institutions because we consider them members. It's also a good message to the community, seeing that we moved from below 60 to over 85
- Fedora: $508,167; 74 members; 89% of goal
- VIVO: $179,083; 23 members; 86% of goal
General: $101,000; 21 members; 97% of goal
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