DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
December 15, 2016
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Thank you to our 2016 Members
The 2016 DuraSpace Membership Campaign closed at the end of October. By joining DuraSpace this year 159 members are now connected with the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects they depend on. DuraSpace members become open source project part-owners who actively help advance project goals by participating in project governance. Thank you to all our members for believing, as we do, in working together to provide enduring access to the world’s digital heritage forever.
Save the dates for the 2017 DuraSpace Member Summit, April 4-5, 2017
The 2017 DuraSpace Member Summit will be held on April 4-5 directly following the CNI Spring 2017 Meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 3-4. More information to follow in January.
A few items of interest:
• Report from Fedora Camp in NYC
A team of six expert instructors offered a three-day Fedora Camp at Columbia University in New York City. Participants learned about core features, external Integrations, data modeling and linked data, Hydra and Islandora, migrating to Fedora 4, and deploying Fedora 4 in production. Read more here.
• Greetings from the 2017 VIVO Conference Organizers
The organizers of the 2017 VIVO Conference are planning an exciting event that will be held at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City August 2-4, 2017. Stay tuned to the conference web site at http://vivoconference.org for program details as they become available. Look for the call for proposals early in the new year.
• Introducing the Hydra-In-A-Box Update
This month the Hydra-In-A-Box team launched the Hydra-In-A-Box Update. The newsletter is a guide to news and information about community progress, plans, and pilots. The first issue includes an announcement of the repository product name: Hyku, along with tech updates and more. Sign-up here to receive the Hydra-In-A-Box Update.
• Institutional Treasures Preserved with DPN and DuraCloud Vault
The 60+ members of DPN have come together around a commitment to preserve vital scholarly, historic and cultural digital collections as the basis for a transformative understanding of how and why we are who we are as a nation far into the future using DuraCloud Vault. DPN is focused on developing tools and services to ensure that the cultural and research assets of today are available to scholars in the future. Numerous notable collections are now permanently preserved and will last beyond the life spans of individuals, technological systems, and organizations. Read about some of them here.
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Kristi Searle
Since this newsletter is going to members I suggest removing the following text and not including it in this NL but instead if we include the card in the Digest or another email.
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It’s never too late to join us.In order to achieve each community’s ambitious plans we must have your financial support. By joining DuraSpace at anytime during the year you will have the opportunity to support the projects that are of interest to you, and also to have a voice in project governance.Become a DuraSpace member by simply completing the on-line membership form:http://duraspace.org/become_a_member. If you have any questions or need more information about membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>. Read more here. "