DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
June 14, 2017
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
OR2017 I wish you safe travels if you are preparing, as I am, to attend Open Repositories 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. It looks like an exciting program with plenty of time built-in to catch up with DuraSpace friends who will be participating: Erin Tripp, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods, Mike Conlon, and Graham Triggs—Please be sure to say hello! If you are still making plans to attend the last day to register for OR2017 is June 21.
Reception at OR2017 DuraSpace is a proud supporting organization of OR2017. Please join us at open reception hosted by DuraSpace on Wednesday, June 28 from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM at the Stock Exchange Hotel located at 131 Edward Street in Brisbane.
Thank you to renewing members of DuraSpace, and a warm welcome to new members. We very much appreciate those members who have elected to upgrade their memberships in support of our open source projects. We have raised 62% of our 2017 fundraising goal so far in this year's campaign with 100 unique members.
DSpace-CRIS Web Seminar Tomorrow we are offering a web seminar beginning at 11:30 AM EDT in collaboration with our friends at 4Science, "DSpace-CRIS: How it works and how to leverage it". Be sure to tune to learn more DSpace-CRIS which allows creation and management of any kind of entity–researchers, organizations, projects–and the relationships among those entities. There's still time to register for this free web seminar here.
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
DSpace
Expect to learn more about DSpace 7 UI at OR2017. A half-day workshop aimed at familiarizing developers with DSpace 7 Angular UI will be presented on June 27, providing updates, next steps, and information about how to contribute. More information here.
There's still time to to propose lightning talks and breakout sessions for the North American DSpace User Meeting hosted by Georgetown University Library Aug 22-23. More information here.
The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2017 (formally known as German DSpace User Group Meeting) will take place at Stuttgart University Library on September 21, 2017 hosted by Stuttgart University Library, Fraunhofer IRB and The Library Code. This informal information exchange will be organized in "Round table" discussion focused on specific topics. The deadline for topic proposals is June 21. More information here.
Fedora
A full-day workshop, Using and Extending Fedora, will be offered at OR2017 on June 27. Using pre-configured virtual machines, participants will learn how to create and manage content in Fedora in accordance with linked data best practices, how to search and run SPARQL queries against content in Fedora using the included Solr index and triplestore, and how to install and interact with API-X extensions. More information here.
Find out what will be covered in the Fedora and Samvera (formerly Hydra) Camp curriculum–now available. The Camp will be held at Oxford University, Sept 4 - 8, 2017. Registration is available here with an early bird discount until July 10. The camp will be hosted by Oxford University Oxford, UK and is supported by Jisc.
Registration is also available for Fedora Camp Texas, co-hosted by Texas Digital Library and the University of Texas Libraries, Austin, October 16-18, 2017. Local accommodations are available at a reduced rate–early bird discounts until Aug. 14.
VIVO
Become an institutional sponsor of the 2017 VIVO Conference to be held in NYC Aug 2-4. Why? Sponsoring the 2017 conference is a great way to promote your organization while supporting the VIVO community. Details on a variety of sponsorship packages and benefits are available in the Sponsorship Prospectus.
VIVO Project Director Mike Conlon who is also a Member of the DuraSpace Board of Directors and an Emeritus Faculty member of the University of Florida, is the author of a new monthly column aimed at providing in-depth information on topics related to VIVO. The May article entitled, "Who Should Have a Profile" lays out a variety of use cases for why an institution might encourage faculty members to maintain a discoverable profile. Read more here. In the June article entitled, "Why Ontology" Dr. Conlon explains what is gained from using ontologies to connect people, data and meaning. Read more here.
Do you use VIVO or are you considering using VIVO at your institution? The VIVO Community Survey Team would appreciate your help in understanding how institutions and organizations use VIVO–it only takes a few minutes. Fill out the survey.
SERVICES
We are pleased to welcome new DuraCloud customers Tri-College Consortium and Drexel University and new DSpaceDirect customers National Center for Victims of Crime, Austin Peay State University, and Southern New Hampshire University.
ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud services from DuraSpace are built on solid open source software platforms and require very little effort to start up. DuraSpace staff experts work directly with service customers to provide personalized on-boarding processes and superb customer support. Our services can provide open access to institutional resources, preservation of treasured collections, and simplified data management tools. Contact customersupport@duraspace.org to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers.
WHERE WE'LL BE (please update)
OR2017, June 26-30, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Tim Donohue, Andrew Woods, David Wilcox, Mike Conlon, Graham Triggs, Erin Tripp
SAA Archives 2017, July 25-29, Heather Greer Klein
VIVO2017, Aug 2-4, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Mike Conlon, Graham Triggs
North American DSpace User Group Meeting, Aug 22-23, Tim Donohue
Fedora and Samvera (formerly Hydra) Camp, Sept 4-8, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods
The DSpace Anwendertreffen, Sept 21
Fedora Camp Texas, Oct 16-18, David Wilcox
