Dear Friends,

Along with the onset of cooler weather here is our monthly update on current and ongoing strategic initiatives including:

• We're making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, with thanks to our members DuraSpace has achieved 92% of its membership goals to date. 
  
• We launched a new DuraSpace Service Provider (DSP) Program. Check out the 21 companies who are helping lower barriers to open source software on our new service provider listing page. 
  
• The DSpace Community for the first time ever, published an annual report! The 2017-2018 Annual Report is now available. It provides an overview of the user community, membership, two brief community profiles, a technical overview, governance, finance, and events.
  
• Two camps are coming up this fall.  A Fedora and Samvera Camp is happening at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts, and there will be a VIVO Camp, October 18-20, 2018, in the Butler Library at Columbia University. There's still time to register! For the Fedora and Samvera Camp click: here, or for VIVO Camp click: here.
• Our international outreach initiatives continue with The DSpace Anwendertreffen, an annual meeting of the minds for DSpace users in Germany. We will also participate in a Digitisation and Digital Preservation Workshop Nov 6-9, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.
• A recent announcement that the VIVO 2019 Conference will be held Sept 4-6, 2019 in Podgorica, Montenegro in collaboration with The School of Medicine at University of Montenegro, Clinical Center of Montenegro, and the Institute of Public Health of Montenegro.
  

As we continue to work on these and other new and emerging initiatives, DuraSpace staff and board members remain grateful for our community’s financial support, and for their engagement in our work aimed at providing enduring access to the world’s digital heritage.

Warm regards,

Erin Tripp

Interim CEO

2018 Membership Campaign

Thank you to each of our renewing DuraSpace members for your continued support. You each have joined DuraSpace in the vital effort to provide technical leadership, strategic planning, community outreach, software release coordination, and marketing and communications to the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO open source projects. With a little over two months left in our 2018-19 membership campaign here's where we are towards meeting the goals by project: 

Total: $1,047,440; 159 unique members ; 92% of goal 

• • DSpace: $291,857; 58 members ; 113% of goal
  • Fedora: $482,167; 71 members; 85% of goal
  • VIVO: $174,916; 22 members; 84% of goal
  • General: $98,500; 20 members; 95% of goal

If you have questions about your membership, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>.  

SERVICES (Update)

We are excited to welcome new ArchivesDirect customers the University of Denver, the Glenstone Foundation, and the Archdiocese of Seattle.

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, and to learn about special discounts for new DuraCloud subscribers who are DuraSpace members at the Silver level and above.

WHERE WE'LL BE THIS FALL 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DESIGNING STORAGE ARCHITECTURES MEETING, Washington DC, Sept 17-18 - Bill Branan

BRAZILIAN REPOSITORY WORKSHOP, Brasilia (Brazil), September 18-19 - Michele Mennielli

GEORGIA FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, Tbilisi (Georgia), September 24-26 - Michele Mennielli

CONCYTEC CRIS DAYS, Lima (Peru), October 1-3 - Michele Mennielli

VIVO CAMP, New York City, Oct 18-20 - Mike Conlon

FEDORA AND SAMVERA CAMP, Berlin, Nov 5-8 - David Wilcox, Andrew Woods