DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
August 18, 2016
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
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DEBRA PLEASE EDIT
This fall I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at upcoming events and meetings this fall to share information about our activities and learn more about how DuraSpace can continue to meet your needs. We are investigating several new opportunities for partnerships with organizations nationally and internationally to provide our members with access to new types of technologies and user communities. I look forward to sharing details about these exciting initiatives as they emerge.
Our 2016 financial goals are within reach as our annual membership campaign winds down. We deeply appreciate your support! If you have any questions about DuraSpace Membership, and specifically how it benefits the DSpace, Fedora or VIVO open source projects please feel free to contact me.
This month the DuraSpace hosted services team launched the DuraCloud Enterprise Chronopolis subscription plan offering customers a new level of TRAC-Certified long-term digital preservation in trusted academic repositories. DuraCloud Enterprise Chronopolis is the result of a collaboration with the University of California at San Diego’s Chronopolis service. Read more here.
Our work as a partner with DPLA (The Digital Public Library of America) and Stanford University in the Hydra-In-A-Box project resulted in significant progress over the summer. Through November our efforts will be focused on repository product development based on results of an extensive design phase that will culminate in a MVP (minimum viable product) for a locally installed product testing. MVP repository features will include batch editing of metadata, a new UI, administrative sets, mediated deposit, an administrative dashboard, and complex object support.
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
2016 Membership update
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We appreciate everyone's support. Many thanks to our members who have already renewed their membership for 2016, and to those who have joined DuraSpace for the first time as new members. Members have so far contributed $986,250; 119 members joining DuraSpace in the vital effort to provide technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration to the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects. Here's where we are towards meeting budget amounts:
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FEDORA
NYC Camp-out
Don't forget to register Want to learn how to twist the dials and push the buttons on Fedora? Register for Fedora Camp in NYC, hosted by Columbia University Libraries at Columbia University's Butler Library, New York City November 28-30, 2016. More Instructor information about the instructors and a full training schedule are available here: Register today and join us in New York!
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This release will be the last release built against a version of Modeshape that uses Infinispan for data storage. Release notes and downloads are available on the wiki.
Check out the new Fedora Repository web site
The site was designed in consultation with members of the Fedora Leadership Group and reflects a modern, mobile-friendly approach that makes it easy to find key items first. Read more here.
Reusing Fedora resources
The community has been working on import and export Fedora tooling to enhance reuse of Fedora resources in other contexts. The result of this effort will mean that users can export to a separate preservation system, as well as migrate resources across Fedora installations, such as from a LevelDB backend to PostgreSQL. Half of the problem is solved with the existing GET/POST interactions for RDF and non-RDF resources provided by the Linked Data Platform API. The other half will addressed by tooling external to Fedora.
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