DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
October 24, 2016
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO (please review Debra)
This month we welcome Heather Greer Klein as our hosted services customer specialist and bid a fond farewell to chief strategy officer Jonathan Markow who is retiring to resume a performing career as a jazz pianist.
In the third and fourth quarters our organization undertook strategic planning for the next three years with input from board, staff, and community members. SWOT and PEST analyses helped us understand DuraSpace's organizational strengths, emerging opportunities, and where we can improve service to our community. We will share the strategic plan on the website, pending approval from the Board at our November 30th meeting. I look forward to your feedback as the results of this work are shared widely over the coming months.
Our discussions have led us to consider what DuraSpace's role might be in the growth and diversification of the digital scholarly ecosystem. It is clear that an expanding landscape of projects and initiatives will require various kinds of organizational support. DuraSpace is well-suited to lead and support these new endeavors in the evolving ecosystem. We are in various phases of pursuing potential projects, affiliations, and partnerships with the shared goal of facilitating the acquisition, analysis, organization, and discoverability of digital assets to showcase, share, and preserve scholarly information and research outputs.
Anything about Avalon hosted service or other emerging services; HydraDirect??
Warmest regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
2016 Membership update (DONE)
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. This is the final month of our 2016 campaign. We only have another $155,000 to raise to reach our annual goal. Here's where we are towards meeting targets by project:
Total: $1,098,750; 150 members; 88% of target
- DSpace: $230,750; 85% of target
- Fedora: $537,250; 93% of target
- VIVO: $245,750; 76% of target
General: $85,000; 106% of target
PROJECTS
FEDORA (please review David)
NYC Camp; Fedora 4.7.0 release candidate
The Fedora project continues to engage committers and new users by reaching out nationally and internationally with workshops for beginners and those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Fedora's unique strengths. Whether you are in interested in the deep or overview look at Fedora these upcoming events may be of interest:
- An overview of what will be covered on each day of the upcoming Fedora Camp NYC, along with details regarding instructors and the content that will be presented on each day is now available (http://duraspace.org/articles/3015).Register today and join us in New York!
- Fedora at the 2016 DLF ForumMilwaukee, Wisconsin, November 7-9, 2016. Digital Preservation 2016 will be held in conjunction with the Forum, from November 9-10. An Introduction to Fedora 4 workshop will be offered on November 8, along with a project update on November 7.
Fedora 4.7.0 is now available as a release candidate–your feedback is welcome: In addition the API Extension Architecture working group (API-X) is set to release a demonstration of the framework for a round of evaluation and feedback. An overview and evaluation guide for this demo is in development with an initial skeleton available on the wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/QpioB. Please place your name as an evaluator on the page if you are interested in evaluating the demo when it is released to provide this valuable feedback.
DSPACE (please review Jonathan)
DSpace 6.0 in the house; A look at DSpace in Finland
- TK today
- Insights into how DSpace is being used at the National Library of Finland to power more than 50 customer organizations which include 5 universities, 26 universities of applied science, state research institutes, all Finnish ministries and other public sector organizations in Finland. (http://duraspace.org/articles/3014)
VIVO (please review Mike)
Save the dates for VIVO 2017; VIVO 1.9.1 is available; VIVO 1.10 Planning
Stay tuned for more information about the the VIVO 2017 Conference which will be held August 2-5 in New York City at Weill Cornell. Alex Viggio, will serve as the 2017 Conference Co-Chair, and Violeta Ilik will be the Program Co-chair. Consider joining the VIVO 2017 Conference Planning Task Force.
VIVO 1.9.1 has been released and is available here. You will find the release notes here. VIVO 1.9.1 is a minor maintenance release that addresses these issues:
- Responsiveness of the Capability Map has been improved
- Turtle support has been added to the filegraph loader
- schema.org errors on profile pages have been fixed
- Maven character set issues on Windows have been fixed
- Maven now correctly sets Java 1.7 version
- VIVO now uses the background RDFService correctly in the visualization cache
VIVO 1.10 is in the planning stages. Get involved with key community design issues such as user interface, internationalization, and technical documentation:
SERVICES
Welcome new customers, other?? (Bill or Kristi please add new customers) FROM VAL: Not sure the format you want they new customers in - but we had 2 new ones for Sept/Oct: Culpeper County Library-DSpaceDirect, The Five Colleges of Ohio-DuraCloud
While not supported directly by our members DuraSpace Hosted Services provide our community with cost effective, simple and direct solutions for high quality digital preservation services that include ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud. To learn more about any of the hosted services DuraSpace offers, please visit their web sites or contact customerservice@duraspace.org.
