DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
October 24, 2016

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO  (please review Debra)

• Farewell to Jonathan (http://duraspace.org/node/2901)
• Strategic planning underway
• Criteria for participating with DuraSpace (project or contract)
• Avalon hosted service announced at HydraConnect

Warmest regards,

Debra Hanken Kurtz

CEO

2016 Membership update (please update Val)

Many thanks to our members who have already renewed their membership for 2016, and to those who have joined DuraSpace for the first time as new members. We are winding down the campaign and only have another $175,334 to raise to reach our annual goal. Here's where we are towards meeting targets by project:

Total: $1,078,750; 143 members; 86% of target

• DSpace: $228,250; 85% of target
• Fedora: $522,250; 90% of target
• VIVO: $245,750; 76% of target
• General: $82,500; 100% of target    
  
  

PROJECTS

FEDORA  (please review David)

NYC Camp; Fedora 4.7.0 release candidate

• An overview of what will be covered on each day of the upcoming Fedora Camp NYC, along with details regarding instructors and scheduling is now available (http://duraspace.org/articles/3015).Register today and join us in New York!
• Fedora 4.7.0 
• Fedora at the 2016 DLF Forum Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 7-9, 2016. Digital Preservation 2016 will be held in conjunction with the Forum, from November 9-10. An Introduction to Fedora 4 workshop will be offered on November 8, along with a project update on November 7.

DSPACE  (please review Jonathan)

A look at DSpace in Finland; DSpace 6.0 release?

• Any news about when DSpace 6.0 is expected?
• Insights into how DSpace is being used at the National Library of Finland to power more than 50 customer organizations which include 5 universities, 26 universities of applied science, state research institutes, all Finnish ministries and other public sector organizations in Finland. (http://duraspace.org/articles/3014)

VIVO (please review Mike)

Save the date for VIVO 2017; VIVO 1.9.1 is available; VIVO 1.10 Planning

• The VIVO 2017 Conference will be held August 2-5 in New York City

• VIVO 1.9.1 has been released and is available here.  Release notes are available here.  VIVO 1.9.1 is a minor maintenance release that addresses several issues:

  • Responsiveness of the Capability Map has been improved
  • Turtle support has been added to the filegraph loader
  • schema.org errors on profile pages have been fixed
  • Maven character set issues on Windows have been fixed
  • Maven now correctly sets Java 1.7 version
  • VIVO now uses the background RDFService correctly in the visualization cache
• Get involved with VIVO 1.10: user interface, internationalization, and technical documentation

SERVICES

Welcome new customers, other?? (Bill or Kristi please add new customers)

DuraSpace Web Services include ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud. Learn more about any of the hosted services DuraSpace offers, please visit their web sites or contact customerservice@duraspace.org.