Dear Friends,
As DuraSpace staff join community members everywhere in celebrating summer holidays we want to provide you with an update you on current and ongoing initiatives.
We are focused on ongoing strategic initiatives, including:
Making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, DuraSpace achieved 85% of its membership goals to date. We look forward to keeping that momentum going as we continue our campaign between now and October.
Working with TU Berlin to create a German DSpace consortia and consortial membership [need details from Mic - can we include this here? ]
Continuing our international outreach initiatives with a tremendous event in Lima, Peru co-organized with COAR and CONCYTEC, the Peruvian Council for Science and Technological Information. [need details from Mic]
Electing new leadership groups and facilitating development sprints for DSpace, Fedora and VIVO.
Providing open project consulting to groups such as the ARKs-in-the-Open project, which recently held its inaugural advisory group meeting to kick-off a new community management approach.
As we continue to work on these initiatives and new emerging opportunities, DuraSpace staff and board members remain grateful for our community’s financial support, and for their engagement in our work to provide enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
Warm regards,
Erin Tripp
Interim CEO
2018 Membership Campaign (pls update)
Thank you to each of our renewing DuraSpace members for your continued support. You each have joined DuraSpace in the vital effort to provide technical leadership, strategic planning, community outreach, software release coordination, and marketing and communications to the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO open source projects. With the 2018-19 membership campaign only 2 months old here's where we are towards meeting the goals by project:
Total: $903,500; 141 unique members; 79% of goal
- DSpace: $208,417; 53 members; 81% of goal
- Fedora: $456,667; 62 members; 80% of goal
- VIVO: $147,416; 19 members; 71% of goal
- General: $91,000; 19 members ; 87% of goal
If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>.
Leadership Group Election Results (pls update)
SERVICES (pls update)
Webinar recording: DuraCloud in 2018: What’s New? What’s Next for the Software & the Service?
On May 24th DuraSpace Services Coordinator, Heather Greer Klein, presented a DuraSpace community webinar, “DuraCloud in 2018: What’s New? What’s Next for the Software & the Service?” Heather shared an overview of the services that DuraSpace offers including DuraCloud, an open source preservation storage system and hosted service designed to make it easy to preserve data in the cloud. Heather detailed DuraCloud’s features, storage options, and hosted service options in the United States and Europe. Attendees also learned about DuraCloud as open source software, the development roadmap, and the new pricing options for storing over 20 TB and the first year discount available to new DuraSpace members.
The presentation slides and webinar recording are available at https://duraspace.org/webinar/.
New Customers
We are excited to welcome new DSpaceDirect customer Bryan College of Health Sciences.
ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud services from DuraSpace are built on solid open source software platforms and require very little effort to start up. DuraSpace staff experts work directly with service customers to provide personalized on-boarding processes and superb customer support. Our services can provide open access to institutional resources, preservation of treasured collections, and simplified data management tools. Contact Heather Greer Klein to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers, and to learn about special discounts for new DuraCloud subscribers who are DuraSpace members at the Silver level and above.
WHERE WE'LL BE THIS SUMMER (All Please UPDATE)
ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018, Washington, DC, August 12-18 - Heather Greer Klein
