DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
October 2425, 2016
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO (please review Debra)CEO
This month we welcome Heather Greer Kline Klein as our hosted services customer specialist, and and bid a fond farewell to chief strategy officer Jonathan Markow who is retiring to resume a performing career as a jazz pianist.
In the third and fourth quarters our organization undertook strategic planning for the next 3-5 three years with input from board, staff, and community members. SWAT SWOT and PEST analyses helped us understand DuraSpace's organizational strengths, emerging opportunities, and where ways we can improve services service to our the community. I look forward to your feedback as the results of this work are shared widely over the coming months.We will share the strategic plan on the website, pending approval from the Board at our November 30th meeting.
Our discussions have led us to consider Some of our discussions have included looking into what DuraSpace's role might be in the growth and diversification of the digital scholarly ecosystem. It is clear that an expanding landscape of projects and initiatives will require various kinds of organizational support. DuraSpace is well-suited to play a role in this expansion by adding to the portfolio of mission-aligned partnerships and projects that we steward. We are developing a set of guidelines for potential projects, affiliates and partners who may wish to participate in DuraSpace, and who in turn aim to offer our community aspects of end-to-end solutions, services and technologies which acquire, analyze, organize, share, make discoverable, showcase lead and support these new endeavors in the evolving ecosystem. We are in various phases of pursuing potential projects, affiliations, and partnerships with the shared goal of facilitating the acquisition, analysis, organization, and discoverability of digital assets to showcase, share, and preserve scholarly information and data.Anything about Avalon hosted service or other emerging services; HydraDirect??research outputs.
I look forward to your feedback as the results of our strategic planning work is shared widely over the coming months.
Warmest regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
2016 Membership update (DONE)
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. This is the final month of our 2016 campaign. We only have another $155,000 to raise to reach our annual goal. Here's where we are towards meeting targets by project:
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- DSpace: $230,750; 85% of target
- Fedora: $537,250; 93% of target
- VIVO: $245,750; 76% of target
General: $85,000; 106% of target
PROJECTS
FEDORA (please review David)FEDORA
NYC Camp; Fedora 4.7.0 release candidate; API Extension Architecture Demo
The Fedora project continues to engage committers and new users by reaching out nationally and internationally with with workshops for beginners and those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Fedora's unique strengths. Whether you are in interested in the a deep dive or overview look at Fedora these upcoming events may be of interest:
- An overview of what will be covered on each day of the upcoming Fedora Camp NYC, along with details regarding instructors and the content that will be presented on each day is now available (http://duraspace.org/articles/3015).Register today and join us in New York!
- An Introduction to Fedora Workshop at the 2016 DLF ForumMilwaukee, Wisconsin, November 7-9, 2016. Digital Preservation 2016 will be held in conjunction with the Forum, from November 9-10. An Introduction to Fedora 4 workshop will be offered on November 8, along with a project update on November 7.
Fedora 4.7.0 is now available as a release candidate–your candidate–your feedback is welcome: In addition the API Extension Architecture working group (API-X) is set to release a demonstration of the framework for a round of evaluation and feedback. An overview and evaluation guide for this demo is in development with an initial skeleton available on the wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/QpioB. Please place your name as an evaluator on the page if you are interested in evaluating the demo when it is released to provide this valuable feedback.
DSPACE (please review Jonathan)
DSpace 6.0 is in the house; A look at DSpace in Finland
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DSpace at the National Library of Finland
Check out the new release of DSpace 6.0 (release notes) which features an enhanced configuration system, enhanced file storage plugins, and new quality control/healthcheck reporting features (via REST API and via email). In addition, DSpace 6 has an eye on the future, with a major Java API refactor that adds support for both UUIDs and Hibernate in our database layer. Like its predecessor, DSpace 6 continues to strive to simplify the upgrade process by automatically updating your database to 6.x compatibility (from any prior DSpace version). Read more here.
This month Samu Viita shares his insights into how DSpace is being used at the National Library of Finland to power more than 50 customer
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organizations–5 universities, 26 universities of applied science, state research institutes, all Finnish ministries and other public sector
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organizations–in this "DSpace Story". Read more here.
VIVO
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VIVO (please review Mike)
Save the dates for VIVO 2017; VIVO 1.9.1 is available; VIVO 1.10 Planning
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VIVO 1.10 is in the planning stages. Get involved with key community design issues such as user interface, internationalization, and technical documentation:
SERVICES
Welcome new customers, other?? (Bill or Kristi please add new customers) FROM VAL: Not sure the format you want they new customers in - but we had 2 new ones for Sept/Oct: Culpeper County Library-DSpaceDirect, The Five Colleges of Ohio-DuraCloud
While not supported directly by our members DuraSpace Hosted Services provide our community with cost effective, simple and direct solutions for high quality digital preservation services that include ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud. To learn more about any of the hosted services DuraSpace offers, please visit their web sites or contact customerservice@duraspace.org.
We are pleased to welcome new DSpaceDirect customer Culpeper County Library and new DuraCloud customer The Five Colleges of Ohio.