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Dear Friends,
As we prepare for the the DuraSpace Member Summit which will be held April 10-11 in San Diego prior to the CNI Spring Member Meeting we have several exciting initiatives to tell you about.
We are in the process of ensuring that the data in the DuraSpace Registry, a a community driven database that identifies which institutions and organizations around the world use DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO, is current. In 2018 there are more than 2,900 installations registered worldwide. We need your help to update this valuable tool to learn who is using what software, how they are using it, and how their use case may be similar to yours. Please take a moment to see if your organization’s repository or VIVO installation is listed on the registry. If If not, let us know that you are using DSpace, Fedora or VIVO by sharing information about the software you’re using through our registry. If you find your information is outdated, please use the email link provided at the bottom of your registry entry to tell us what’s new or contact Kristi Searle to update your information. (Read more)
DSpace Developer Show and Tell Meetings (more) http://duraspace.org/news/dspace-launches-developer-show-and-tell-meetings - DEBRA'S NOTE: This seems like an unfinished thought.
We are pleased to announce that the California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace are collaborating to build an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem. Learn more about the ARKs in the Open Project in recent project updates:http://duraspace.org/news/arks-open-project-update-1; http://duraspace.org/articles/3377
DuraSpace has launched its 2018 webinars program. Workshop webinars will be offered free of charge each month focused on applied use of our open source technologies. Workshop webinar slides and recordings are available after each presentation. In February David Wilcox presented "Getting Started with Fedora." This presentation provided an overview of the software and basic concepts, examples of deployments, and an overview and demonstration of the core and extended features. slides Slides and recording available: http://duraspace.org/articles/3371. On March 28 Erin Tripp will present Open Source Repository Upgrades: Top Advice from Practitioners Practitioners summarizing advice so participants can benefit from the experience of their peers and plan for the best project possible FINISH THIS THOUGHT: http://duraspace.org/articles/3353. Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, will offer DSpace users and potential users a simple introduction to the customization process on April 24 http://duraspace.org/articles/3372.
We are excited to be co-hosting the first DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event with our Strategic Partner euroCRIS. The DSpace and CRIS Systems one-day Workshop will focus on interoperability between DSpace repositories and CRIS systems in advance of the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden - on Wednesday, June 13, 2018.(USE CONSISTENT STYLE, bold or don't bold all dates.)
During the DSpace and CRIS systems workshop, DSpace users will have a great opportunity to meet to identify existing examples of integration between DSpace and CRIS systems and to discuss functionalities that DSpace could implement in the future in order to more effectively support workflows traditionally associated with Research Information Systems more effectively.
Members of the DSpace community are encouraged to send their workshop proposal using this form.
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We're looking forward to seeing many of our members at our Annual Member Summit on April 10 and 11 in San Diego, California. Those attending will receive the agenda and additional materials by April 6th. We'll be sure to provide all of our members with a complete Summit Summary in April's member newsletter. If you have any questions regarding the summit please contact Kristi Searle.
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