Dear Friends,
The DuraSpace Member Summit was held April 10-11 prior to the in San Diego prior to the CNI Spring Member Meeting in San Diego. Slides will be made available
I reported that DuraSpace had its “Best. Year. Ever. “ Accompanying facts, figures, and narrative I told our story in a way that underscores the fact that DuraSpace is a sound investment in the scholarly ecosystem which coincides with the launch of our 2018 Membership Campaign. Thank you to members who have already taken the time to renew their memberships.
This year we added 2 panel presentations focused on current topics of general community interest offered by community presenters.
On Tuesday, Liz Krznarich of ORCiD and John Kunze of the California Digital Library, participated in a panel discussion, “How do persistent identifiers intersect with digital curation, preservation, and discovery activities?” to present their view of why identifiers are important, how they can integrate with other digital workflow components, and how they can be improved.
Wednesday’s panel discussion, “The Future Will Be Open?” looked into the future of scholarly communication. Panelists discussed what it would take to move our distributed system of global scholarly communication to a place where it is both significantly more open and significantly more sustainable? Moderated by Michael Roy, Dean of the Library, Middlebury College, our panel of leading thinkers and practitioners dug into these questions which boiled down to, "Will the future be ours and affordable?" Panelists included Tyler Walters, Dean of University Libraries, Virginia Tech; Virginia Tech, John Willinsky, The Public Knowledge Project at Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Simon Fraser University Library, Stanford University; Martha Hruska, AUL Collection Services, University of California San Diego; and me. Learn more about this presentation and the panelists here.
Both panels were well received and sparked lively audience discussion. Our thanks to all our panelists! Look for future DuraSpace Summits to continue the trend towards being outward-facing and inclusive.
Please join us for the first of three Hot Topics webinars on May 17 entitled, "“The 2.5% Commitment: Investing in Open.” This webinar will focus on the David Lewis’s proposal for a 2.5% investment in open infrastructure and how it aims to make visible the investments academic libraries make in open infrastructure and content. It will also review actions that have taken place in the past nine months to advance these ideas. Register here.
Project reports from DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO were concise and honest with regard to both successes, challenges and forward-thinking solutions.
CASRAI UPDATE
As you may have seen in our recent blog post CASRAI is now a DuraSpace project. We are very excited to bring the Research Management Information (RMI) dimension to our work and to add open standards and open systems to our mandate focus. The CASRAI mission is to change the way management information is collected and communicated in the research community and to strengthen the stewardship role played by universities in this objective. In the coming year CASRAI will continue to strengthen its established national chapters in Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as advancing its newest chapter in Europe. For the mission to be accomplished we need the active engagement and support from as many universities as possible around the world; advancing real and lasting change will require strength in numbers from those most affected. If your institution is based in Canada, UK or Europe and you have a role to play in reducing administrative burden on your researchers and improving information quality for your administrative processes please contact us about how you can help. We are also hoping in the coming year to start a new CASRAI chapter in the US - if you are in the US and would like to explore this opportunity to lead there please contact me <debra> or David Baker <
CASRAI has a number of annual events taking place in our various chapters in Canada, UK and Europe in the coming months. We hope you will see an event near you with a programm that catches your interest: http://duraspace.org/news/attend-upcoming-casrai-community-events-canada-uk-and-europe
DSPACE
Anticipation around the emerging DSpace 7 code base is high, as Kristi Park, Director of the Texas Digital Libray, explained.
FEDORA
VIVO
VIVO has a
VIVO is very different from repository installations in that a major part of the institution has to get behind a VIVO installation so there is very long onramp. Product Director Mike Conlon asked, "is there another OS community that has similar challenges?" It is notable that those institutions with VIVOs are all members anf often active community members
Some high level aspirational DuraSpace goals include interoperability-breaking down project silos, diversity and inclusiveness, long-range economic stability, business development, internationalization and others. In many cases we share these goals wth our member institutions. DuraSpace's pursuit of aspirational goals on behalf of the member community will include communications transparency and clear opportunities for wide participation.
Durapace Board Member and Stanford Libraries AUL Tom Cramer summarized by encouraging members to think of support and participation withDuraSpace from a broader perspective. "We are at an inflection point—our conversations are very different from what they were years ago. We have made a lot of progress. Successes snd structures are reasons to celebrate.
We are nodes in a much wider network where expertise and knowledge are sharable in a wider sphere. DuraSpace has never had a better network—whole is greater than the sum of its parts and interconnectedness is valued. He concluded by urging attendees to think about how each individual's work relates to the wider community.
CNI
The CNI Member Meetings capture and highlight current scholarly ecosystem concerns and undercurrents providing both a platform for coming to shared understandings, and a forum for formal and informal discussion and networking. The meeting in San Diego fit the mold with many more project briefings than usual included in this conference program. Slides and recordings will be made available from CNI.
With many thanks for your support and participation.
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
2018 Membership Campaign
Become a DuraSpace Member: Building Bridges to Worldwide Open Scholarship With Open Source Technologies and Open Standards.
Learn more about DuraSpace in the 2017-2018 Strategic Summary (link).
SERVICES
We are pleased to welcome new DuraCloud customers Fort Hays State University and International Development Research Centre, and new DSpaceDirect customer Delaware State University.
NEW: DuraCloud New Customer Discount for Silver+ Members
DuraSpace members supporting at the Silver level or higher now have a new incentive to try the DuraCloud preservation storage service. DuraSpace member institutions that begin a new DuraCloud subscription in 2018 qualify for a discount on the subscription price for their first year of DuraCloud service:
- 10% Discount for Platinum Members
- 7% discount for Gold Members
- 5% Discount for Silver Members
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 Heather Greer Klein to learn more about any of the web services DuraSpace offers.
WHERE WE'LL BE THIS SPRING (UPDATE)
ANKOS Link 2018, Antalya (Turkey), April 17-20, Michele Mennielli
COAR Annual Meeting, Hamburg (Germany), May 15-17, Michele Mennielli
Fedora Camp at NASA, May 16-18, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods, Danny Bernstein
