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The winter holiday season is upon us. I am happy to extend warm greetings from everyone here at DuraSpace and sincere best wishes for a healthy and prosperous New Year! We've had an incredible 2018 and are also finishing the year with news of some incredible initiatives, such as:
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- DuraSpace received a grant to connect preservation storage services through a common deposit layer based on DuraCloud open source software, to research data preservation in Canada. The project “DuraCloud Canada: Linking Data Repositories to Preservation Storage” is a collaboration with the University of Toronto Libraries , Scholars Portal and COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) is funded by CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation. Read more here.
- The Leadership Group chairs for the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO communities shared with us news of their upcoming priorities here.
- The Fedora 5.0 third release candidate is out. We're anticipating the release to be out before the new year! Release testing information here.
- The 2019 North American DSpace User Group Meeting will be held at the University of Minnesota April 22, 2019.
- The VIVO Project planned an architectural fly-in meeting to develop architectural approaches to addressing the statement of direction for 2019. You can read more about the fly-in here 2019 Architectural Fly-in.
- The Arks in the Open Project reports progress toward their goal to transition the ARK specification and registry from the California Digital Library to a community supported and managed activity.
- The creation of two new DSpace User Groups in India and Peru which both held inaugural events the week of Dec 3 with a combined attendance of almost 300 people!
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