The table of DuraSpace Board-Member-at-Large Nominees below will be used for the upcoming election in April. To make a nomination/s please complete the form at http://bit.ly/bod_nominate by April 3. Self-nominations are welcome! For a list of eligible Member organizations, visit http://bit.ly/duraspace_members. After nominations are verified with the nominee they will be added to this page along with the nominee's personal statement. The personal statements should be brief – just a few sentences in length.
| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement (can include an indication of individual's involvement/experience with the DuraSpace opens source projects or services at their institution/s and/or with the broader preservation and archiving community and/or some detail about what he/she believes should be the current priorities and/or long term strategies for DuraSpace). |
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Tim McGeary
| Duke University Libraries | Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Services | "I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for Board-Member-at-Large for the DuraSpace Foundation. Over my nearly 15 year career in higher education, I have found the DuraSpace Foundation, its services, and its administrative support of open source projects to be at the highest level of quality. It has been a privilege to partner with DuraSpace staff and members at each of the three institutions where I have worked. The collaborative spirit and commitment to sustainable and open solutions at DuraSpace is precisely the right type of focus and leadership, as well as the foundation for my leadership as Associate University Librarian at Duke University. I would be honored to work with the DuraSpace Foundation Board of Directors and new CEO Debra Hanken Kurtz to set strategic directions and priorities necessary to continue and enhance our commitment to excellence, openness, and sustainability." |
David W. Lewis | Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis | Dean of the IUPUI University Library | My library is a long time user of DSpace and one of our programmers is a DSpace committer. I have been a member of the DSpace Steering Committee and am currently the committee’s chair. I think DuraSpace will face several challenges in the next several years. First, while there are some European members, DuraSpace needs to expand its reach beyond North America, both in terms of memberships/funding and engagement with projects. This will be important in the near term for the DSpace, but the other projects will likely follow DSpace in this regard. Second, Fedora and DSpace are at some level competitive. DuraSpace needs to balance the two projects or develop a strategy that provides each a place. If Hydra becomes a DuraSpace project this may become more complex. Finally, while DuraSpace has made the transition to a membership-supported organization it is not clear that all of the projects have the support they need for long-term viability. |
| Brian Schottlaender | University of California San Diego | University Librarian | The UC San Diego Library has been involved with DuraSpace projects for many years now. We started with Chronopolis as a DuraCloud option, progressing to actively contributing technical leadership and software development to Fedora, and more recently supporting the move of Hydra to DuraSpace for legal support. We have also contributed financially since 2011/12, increasing our membership steadily to the Gold Member level. |
