Dear Friends,
November highlights include community and project-focused activities and news about the future of DuraSpace leadership:
- I'm happy to announce I was appointed the DuraSpace Executive Director this month. I'm looking forward to connecting with members at the CNI fall meeting in Washington, D.C. and would love to hear from members before then too. Having emerged from our transition period, the entire team is excited to move ahead with our good work and look ahead to the future of the organization.
- DSpace, Fedora and VIVO Leadership Group chairs discuss priorities here (to come).
- Fedora 5.0 is currently in release testing.
- DSpace seeks host organization for the 2019 North American DSpace User Group Meeting.[needs to be updated with the new host]
Thank you for supporting our work on these and other initiatives aimed at providing enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.
Warm regards,
Erin Tripp
Interim CEO
2018 Membership Campaign (please update)
We are in the final days of the active 2018-19 DuraSpace Membership Campaign and are within $53,000 of our goal! Here's where we are by project:
Total: $1,087,773; 166 unique members ; 95% of goal
- DSpace: $299,524; 85 members ; 116% of goal / I would suggest to consider all the members, including the German ones that form the Consortium. I think the total should be around 86 members. On our website we're listing all of the German institutions because we consider them members. It's also a good message to the community, seeing that we moved from below 60 to over 85
- Fedora: $508,167; 74 members; 89% of goal
- VIVO: $179,083; 23 members; 86% of goal
General: $101,000; 21 members; 97% of goal
If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>.
A Members-Only Hot Topics Webinar
On Wednesday, December 5th at 12:00 p.m. EST, our Hot Topics Series, "The Revolution Will Be Open?" will conclude. Members are invited to register for, "How For-Profit Companies Can Be a Part of the Open Environment.” In this webinar, we'll explore how for-profit business models can be compatible with participating in the Open Access revolution. Please join us to hear from Brian Hole, Ubiquity; Andrew Smeal, Hindawi, and Anita Bandrowski, SciCrunch as they discuss their organizations' roles in the world of open scholarly infrastructure and how their work can benefit the scholarly communication community while both keeping open the infrastructure that they provide and operating in a for-profit mode. Register today! A special thanks to David Lewis and Michael Roy the curator of this series and to all of the webinar presenters. The recordings and presentation slides of this series are available at https://duraspace.org/webinar/.
Where We'll Be (please update with upcoming engagements through Dec.)
