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DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
August 18, 2016

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

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This fall I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at upcoming events and meetings.

Warm regards,

Debra Hanken Kurtz

CEO


2016 Membership update

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Many thanks to our members who have already renewed their membership for 2016, and to those who have joined DuraSpace for the first time as new members. Members have so far contributed $938,750; 117 members joining DuraSpace in the vital effort to provide technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration to the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects. Read more here.

Here's the breakdown:

Total: $938,750; 117 members; 75% of budget

  • DSpace: $174,500; 65% of budget
  • Fedora: $487,250; 84% of budget
  • VIVO: $204,500; 63% of budget
  • General: $72,500; 91% of budget    

PROJECTS

FEDORA 

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DSPACE

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VIVO

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The VIVO community participated in a remarkable conference last month in Denver. If you missed the VIVO conference, catch the keynotes on YouTube!

SERVICES

New service level announcement here

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DuraSpace has solutions. Our suite of reliable, fully hosted cloud-based web services built on open source software are priced to make them affordable. We invite you to consider how DuraCloud, a managed service for archiving content in the cloud;  DSpaceDirect, a hosted, turnkey repository solution; and ArchivesDirect, a complete, hosted archiving solution, might streamline your organization's digital workflow and jump start innovation.
Besides being economical, DuraSpace services are built on solid open source software platforms and require very little effort to start up. Why? Because part of DuraSpace web services value is in personalized on-boarding support and training that are provided at no extra cost. DuraSpace staff experts work directly with service customers to spin up an institutional repository, provide open access to digital collections, and/or to preserve valuable digital content. Our services provide transformative organizational value-global open access to institutional resources, preservation of treasured collections, simplified data management tools, and superb customer service.

DuraSpace Web Services include ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud. Learn more about any of the hosted services DuraSpace offers, please visit their web sites or contact info@duracloud.org.


WHERE WE'LL BE

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