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The 2017 DuraSpace Membership Campaign closed at the end of October. By joining DuraSpace this year 163 members are now connected with the DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO projects they depend on. DuraSpace members become open source project part-owners who actively help advance project goals by participating in project governance and software planning and development. Thank you to all our members for believing, as we do, in working together to strengthen the open scholarly ecosystem in order to provide enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
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DuraSpace has been honored to partner with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Stanford University and to and to extend the existing Samvera (formerly Hydra (now Samvera) project codebase and its vibrant and growing community to build, bundle, and promote a feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository that is easy to install, configure, and maintain is work hss been made possible with generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. As the 30 month grant period comes to a close we are pleased to share the fulfillment of project goals which included working toward offering a cloud-based, hosted version of the application to lower the barrier of entry and expand the number and diversity of institutions capable of leveraging the powerful Hyku digital repository platform (Read more here)
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The group drafted a Digital Preservation Declaration of Shared Values that is now being released for community comment. The document is available is available here and the comment period will be open until March 1, 2018. In addition, we welcome suggestions from the community for next steps that would be beneficial as we continue our work together. I encourage your comments, suggestions and observations which may be communicated to the group at comdigpres@googlegroups.com. We also welcome volunteer efforts to translate this declaration into additional languages.
Just a reminder that proposals for OR2018 are due on Jan 5, 2182018. The 13th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2018, will be held on June 4th-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA. Submit proposals in all categories around the theme of Sustaining Open by January 5, 2018. Details here: http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/
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