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The DuraSpace Member Summit was held April 10-11 prior to the in San Diego prior to the CNI Spring Member Meeting in San Diego. Slides will be made available
I reported that DiuaSpace DuraSpace had its “Best. Year. Ever. “ Accompanying facts, figures, and narrative I told our story in a way that underscores the fact that DuraSpace is a sound investment in the scholarly ecosystem which coincides with the the launch of our 2018 Membership Campaign. Thank you to members who have already taken the time to renew their memberships.
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On Tuesday, Liz Krznarich of ORCID ORCiD and John Kunze of the California Digital Library, participated in a panel discussion, “How do persistent identifiers intersect with digital curation, preservation, and discovery activities?” to present their view of why identifiers are important, how they can integrate with other digital workflow components, and how they can be improved.
Wednesday’s panel discussion, “The Future Will Be Open?” ” looked into the future of scholarly communication. Panelists discussed what it would take to move our distributed system of global scholarly communication to a place where it is both significantly more open and significantly more sustainable? Moderated by Michael Roy, Dean of the Library, Middlebury College, our panel of leading thinkers and practitioners dug into these questions which boiled down to, "Will the future be ours and affordable?" Panelists included Tyler Walters, Dean of University Libraries, Virginia Tech; Virginia Tech, John Willinsky, The Public Knowledge Project at Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Simon Fraser University Library, Stanford University; Martha Hruska, AUL Collection Services, University of California San Diego; and myselfme. Learn more about this presentation and the panelists here.
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Please join us for the first of three Hot Topics webinars on May 17 entitled, "“The 2.5% Commitment: Investing in Open.” This webinar will focus on the David Lewis’ Lewis’s proposal for a 2.5% investment in open infrastructure and how it aims to make visible the investments academic libraries make in open infrastructure and content. It will also review actions that have taken place in the past nine months to advance these ideas. Register here.
Project reports from DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO were concise and honest with regard to both successes, challenges and forward-thinking solutions.
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As you may have seen in our recent blog post CASRAI is now a DuraSpace project. We are very excited to bring the Research Management Information (RMI) dimension to our work and to add open standards and open systems to our mandate focus. The CASRAI mission is to change the way management information is collected and communicated in the research community and to strengthen the stewardship role played by universities in this objective. In the coming year CASRAI will continue to strengthen its established national chapters in Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as advancing its newest chapter in Europe. For the mission to be accomplished we need the active engagement and support from as many universities as possible around the world; advancing real and lasting change will require strength in numbers from those most affected. If your institution is based in Canada, UK or Europe and you have a role to play in reducing administrative burden on your researchers and improving information quality for your administrative processes please contact us about how you can help. We are also hoping in the coming year to start a new CASRAI chapter in the US - if you are in the US and would like to explore this opportunity to lead there please contact me <debr> <debra> or David Baker <
CASRAI has a number of annual events taking place in our various chapters in Canada, UK and Europe in the coming months. We hope you will see an event near you with a programme programm that catches your interest: http://duraspace.org/news/attend-upcoming-casrai-community-events-canada-uk-and-europe
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Anticipation around the emerging DSpace 7 code base is high, as Kristi Park, Director of the Texas Digital Libray, explained.
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