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DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
sent by September 14, 2017

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

Dear Friends,

It has been an eventful summer. DuraSpace welcomed two new staff members from Canada and Italy. We look forward to working with Erin Tripp and Michele Mennielli to engage more effectively with our international adopters and potential partners. We traveled to Brisbane, Wrocław, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC to talk about preserving and making accessible and discoverable our collective cultural heritage and academic record. The DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO projects held user group meetings, workshops, and conferences to learn more about your work and to connect people with each other to fortify an already vibrant community of developers, endusers, and administrators. We are most grateful to our hosts at Georgetown, Texas A&M, and Cornell for their generosity in organizing and providing venues for these events. Your support makes it possible for a greater diversity of institutions and individuals to participate in Open Source Software community activities. We congratulate the University of Houston Libraries who were awarded an IMLS grant to develop migration tooling to Hyku from CONTENTdm. When they received the news as they were cleaning up after some flooding from Harvey. As I write, our nation braces for the arrival of Irma and we extend our thoughts and support for our colleagues in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

On a more solemn note, we mourn the loss of Heather Heyer and with our colleagues around the world condemn the acts of violence and bigotry by white supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups in Charlottesville responsible for her death. We have strengthened our resolve to promote and provide inclusive communities and to advocate for All Things Open. We double down on our commitment to serve libraries, museums, archives, and scholars of every stripe to share freely and without fear the collections, perspectives, and ideas that illustrate the beauty in our differences and unite us in our shared mission to promote civil discourse and academic freedom for all.

We look forward to seeing you this fall at conferences and meetings wherever you call home.

Warm regards,

Debra Hanken Kurtz

CEO

2017 Membership Update UPDATED 9/7/17


Many thanks to our members who have already renewed their membership for 2017 and to those who have joined DuraSpace for the first time as new members. New members include:

  • DSpace: ETH Zurich/ETH Library, Naval Postgraduate School and the University of Stirling
  • Fedora: University Library Bern and University of Michigan Medical School
  • VIVO: German National Library of Science and Technology
  • General: Drexel University Libraries

150 members have so far contributed $1,063,333 and joined 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. We are winding down the campaign and only have another $131,667 to raise to reach our annual goal. Here's where we are towards meeting targets by project:

Total: $1,063,333; 156 unique members; 89% of goal

  • DSpace: $229,500; 55 members; 92% of goal 
  • Fedora: $544,750; 71 members; 94% of goal 
  • VIVO: $191,583; 24 members; 68% of goal 
  • General: $97,500; 19 members ; 115% of goal


DSpace

Tim to help complete

Update on North American DSpace User Meeting hosted by Georgetown University Library Aug 22-23. More information here.

Save for October - Update on The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2017 (formally known as German DSpace User Group Meeting) will take place on September 21, 2017 More information here.

Fedora

David to help complete

Update on Fedora and Samvera (formerly Hydra) Camp at Oxford University, Sept 4 - 8, 2017.

VIVO

Mike to help complete

Update on 2017 VIVO Conference to be held in NYC Aug 2-4.  

Update on VIVO Community Survey (help in understanding how institutions and organizations use VIVO). Fill out the survey.

SERVICES

We are pleased to welcome new DSpaceDirect customer California Baptist University.

ArchivesDirectDSpaceDirect, 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.


Call for Participation: Migration/ Upgrade Stories 

DuraSpace is collecting anecdotes from people who have undertaken a migration or a major upgrade in the recent past. We hope to collect stories about how the project went, what resources were used or developed during the process, and whether it turned into an opportunity to update skills, re-engage stakeholders, normalize data, re-envision the service, etc. 

The data will be used by in presentations, blog posts, or other communications that could encourage community members to plan for migrations and major upgrades with an eye toward their benefits. 

The data collection will be done through mediated surveys (interview-style) with Erin Tripp in person, on the phone, or via Skype. If you prefer, you can also fill out the survey online by yourself.  Please express your interest in participating by emailing Erin Tripp at etripp@duraspace.org



WHERE WE'LL BE 

ALL STAFF - Please Update

PASIG, Sept 11-13, Erin Tripp and Michele Mennielli

RDA 10th Plenary MeetingSeptember 19-21, David Wilcox and Mike Conlon

The DSpace Anwendertreffen, Sept 21, Michele Mennielli

iPRESSeptember 25-29, David Wilcox

Fedora Camp Texas, Oct 16-18, David Wilcox

DLF Forum, Oct 23-25, Debra Hanken Kurtz and Erin Tripp

VIVO Camp, Nov 9-11, Mike Conlon and Graham Triggs

CNI Fall 2017 Membership Meeting, Dec 11-12, Erin Tripp and Debra Hanken Kurtz



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