DuraSpace Digest
Vol. 7, Issue 3, March 2015
The DuraSpace Digest highlights recent events, releases, and opportunities of interest to the DuraSpace community.
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in this issue

DuraSpace News

- Accomplishments Highlighted in 2014 DuraSpace Annual Report

- PARTICIPATE: DuraSpace Board-Member-at-Large Elections 

- A View from the DuraSpace Summit

- Tune in to DuraSpace Quickbyte Broadcasts  

 

DuraSpace Projects

DSpace 

- UPDATE: Toward a Strategic Vision and Technical Roadmap for DSpace

- "Developments with DSpace and ORCID" Webinar Recording Available

  

Fedora

- Quarterly Report from Fedora, October - December 2014

- Hydra Europe Digital Repository Events, Spring 2015 

- Northeast Fedora User Group Meeting at Yale, May 11-12

- Hydra in the House

- ATTEND the Fedora 4 Workshop at Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

 

VIVO

- ANNOUNCEMENT: Mike Conlon Appointed VIVO Project Director

- VIVO Strategic Plan Lays Foundation for 2015-2016

 

DuraSpace Services

- DSpaceDirect Information Sessions in 2015

- Sign-Up for the ArchivesDirect Information Session April 1st

 

DuraSpace Registered Service Provider (RSP) Highlights

- CINECA Community Developments

- Open Repository Welcomes Another Georgia Galileo Knowledge Repository Member, Savannah State University

- VIVO Harvester: New Updates from Symplectic

 

Community   

- OR2015 NEWS: Registration Opens; Speakers from Mozilla and Google Announced

- REGISTER for the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

DSNews DURASPACE NEWS 

Accomplishments Highlighted in 2014 DuraSpace Annual Report 

The 2014 DuraSpace Annual Report tells the story of organizational accomplishments and milestones with overviews of DSpace, Fedora and VIVO open source project advances, and DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect and Archives Direct hosted services development and deployment. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/node/2516 

Related link: http://duraspace.org/sites/duraspace.org/files/2014%20DuraSpace%20Annual%20Report.pdf

 

PARTICIPATE: DuraSpace Board-Member-at-Large Elections  

As a part of the new governance model, DuraSpace is officially launching the nominations phase of our Board-Member-at-Large elections.  

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/node/2508 

Related link: Nomination Form

 

A View from the DuraSpace Summit  

The fast-paced and energetic DuraSpace Summit was an opportunity for members to participate in strategic updates, discussions and open source project planning sessions. 

Read the post:  http://duraspace.org/articles/2507 

Related link: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSP/2015+Membership+Summit+Meeting%2C+March+11-12%2C+2015

 

Tune in to DuraSpace Quickbyte Broadcasts  

Current community topics of interest are the subject of the new DuraSpace Quickbyte YouTube channel dedicated to presenting three minute broadcasts that provide a quick look at what's emerging in and around DuraSpace. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2478 

Related link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCL5BJiUntcrxbH5OyydQBg

 


Visit the DuraSpace Community Calendar or our recent Event Blog Posts 
for a comprehensive online view of upcoming community events.
DSProjects
DURASPACE PROJECTS
DSpace 
UPDATE: Toward a Strategic Vision and Technical Roadmap for DSpace 
The DSpace Steering Group, working with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) and DuraSpace, has organized an initiative to present a strategic vision and technical roadmap for DSpace, representing significant community contributions during the past two years.  

"Developments with DSpace and ORCID" Webinar Recording Available 
DSpace 5 brings native support for ORCID integrations, and existing code libraries can be easily adapted to take advantage of information from ORCID records and to support authenticated connections between author records in DSpace and ORCID iDs. 
Fedora

Quarterly Report from Fedora, October - December 2014 

In the past quarter, the development team released the production release of Fedora 4.0. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2477


Hydra Europe Digital Repository Events, Spring 2015 

The Hydra Project is pleased to announce two Hydra Europe events for 2015, taking place this coming April, at LSE Library, London. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2481 

Related link:  https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Hydra+Europe+Spring+Events+2015 


Northeast Fedora User Group Meeting at Yale University 

A Northeast Fedora User Group meeting will be held at Yale University on May 11-12. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2494 

Related link: Register Here

Hydra in the House  

DuraSpace and The Hydra Project are pleased to announce that DuraSpace will serve as a fiscal sponsor for the Hydra Project in 2015 in order to facilitate banking, legal and administrative functions. Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2502 

Related link: http://projecthydra.org/

 

ATTEND the Fedora 4 Workshop at Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 

Fedora team members Andrew Woods and David Wilcox will be presenting a Fedora 4 Training Workshop at the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) to be held April 27-28 in Austin, Texas. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2512 

Related link: Registration

VIVO
ANNOUNCEMENT: Mike Conlon Appointed VIVO Project Director
We are pleased to announce that DuraSpace and the VIVO Steering Group have appointed Dr. Mike Conlon, University of Florida and member of the DuraSpace Board of Directors, as the new VIVO Project Director. 

VIVO Strategic Plan Lays Foundation for 2015-2016 
During the past two and a half months, the VIVO Strategic Planning Group has developed a prioritized written strategy document for the VIVO project. 
DSServices
DURASPACE SERVICES   
Interested in learning more about how DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect, or both may be a good fit for you? Simply submit your information and we will get back to you shortly!
For more information about DuraCloud, please visit: http://duracloud.org/account-inquiry
To request details about DSpaceDirect, simply to go: http://dspacedirect.org/inquiry
DSpaceDirect Information Sessions in 2015 
DSpaceDirect Information Sessions, conducted the last wednesday of every month, aim to familiarize interested individuals with DSpaceDirect's features, functionality, and the web interface. 
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2505 
Related link: http://dspacedirect.org/register

Sign-Up for the ArchivesDirect Information Session April 1st
The information session will cover the basics of the new ArchivesDirect service, including features and functionality, a quick demonstration of the ArchivesDirect dashboard, and will also address subscription plan options and pricing. 
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/node/2504 
Related links: http://www.archivesdirect.org/, Register here
RSP 
DURASPACE REGISTERED SERVICE PROVIDER (RSP) HIGHLIGHTS
This section highlights the work of DuraSpace Registered Service Providers.

CINECA Community Developments 
A few months ago The HongKong Polytechnic University launched an International Tender to choose a new CRIS (Current Research Information System) for their Institution. 

Open Repository Welcomes Another Georgia Galileo Knowledge Repository Member, Savannah State University 
At the end of 2012, Open Repository announced an agreement with five participating Galileo Knowledge Repository member institutions based in Georgia, USA, to build and host their institutional repositories.  

VIVO Harvester: New Updates from Symplectic 
Symplectic has been a supporter of the VIVO project for many years. 
Community
COMMUNITY
OR2015 NEWS: Registration Opens; Speakers from Mozilla and Google Announced 
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, to be held on June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2492 
Related link: http://www.or2015.net/registration/

REGISTER for the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 
Don't miss out on the exciting opportunities available through the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (#tcdl2015), taking place April 27-28.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2509 
Related link: https://conferences.tdl.org/tcdl/index.php/TCDL/TCDL2015
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