DuraSpace Digest
Vol. 7, Issue 4, April 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

- Far-reaching "Hydra-in-a-Box" Joint Initiative Funded by IMLS 

- Recordings Available: "Integrating ORCID Persistent Identifiers with DSpace, Fedora and VIVO."

 

DuraSpace Projects

DSpace 

- First Speakers for OAI9 DSpace User Group Meetings in Geneva

  

Fedora

- NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.1.1 with Key Design Improvements

- Fedora 4 Upgration Pilot Update

- On the Road with Fedora 4

- AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standards) Announces Fedora 4 Webinar

 

VIVO

- POSITION: Join the VIVO Open Source Software Community-Transforming Open Scholarship

- UPDATE: 2015 VIVO Conference Workshops Announced

 

DuraSpace Services

- Registration Available for Digital Preservation with ArchivesDirect Webinar Series 

 

DuraSpace Registered Service Provider (RSP) Highlights

- Chris Wilper Joins @mire

- Asian Development Bank Embraces Open Access

- CINECA: New Contributions to the DSpace Community

- DSquare Technology News: DSpace 4 and 5 Now Available in Hindi

- Open Repository Welcomes New Client: South African Medical Research Council

 

Community   

- OR2015 Conference Stands Behind Commitment to Ensure All Participants are Treated With Respect

- CALL for SHARE Notify Atom Feed Testers

- NOW AVAILABLE: Digital Preservation Management (DPM) Tools

- ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration Project

- SIGN UP for Current SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) News

- SAVE THE DATES: Trinity College Dublin to Host the 2016 Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories

DSNews DURASPACE NEWS 

Far-reaching "Hydra-in-a-Box" Joint Initiative Funded by IMLS 

A tripartite DPLA, Stanford University, and DuraSpace partnership will produce a turnkey, Hydra-based solution that can be widely and easily adopted by institutions nationwide. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2527 

Related link: http://projecthydra.org/

 

Recordings Available: "Integrating ORCID Persistent Identifiers with DSpace, Fedora and VIVO." 

Curated by ORCID's European Regional Director, Josh Brown, this series provided detailed insights into how ORCID persistent digital identifiers can be integrated with DSpace and Fedora repositories and with the VIVO open source semantic web application that provides an integrated view of the scholarly work of an organization. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2532 

Related link: http://duraspace.org/hot-topics


Visit the DuraSpace Community Calendar or our recent Event Blog Posts 
for a comprehensive online view of upcoming community events.
DSProjects
DURASPACE PROJECTS
DSpace 
First Speakers for OAI9 DSpace User Group Meetings in Geneva 
@mire and Duraspace will be hosting DSpace user group meetings prior to the OAI9 conference in Geneva on June 15th and June 16th. 
Fedora

NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.1.1 with Key Design Improvements 

We are proud to announce the release of Fedora 4.1.1. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2524 

Related link: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.1.1+Release+Notes
 

Fedora 4 Upgration Pilot Update 
 A pilot program to support upgrading to Fedora 4 and migrating content from Fedora 3 to 4 is in progress. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2537 

Related link: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/2015-04-20+Upgration+Pilot+Update


On the Road with Fedora 4  

Fedora's Project Manager, David Wilcox shares his thoughts on recently attended conferences and activities. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2536 


AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standards) Announces Fedora 4 Webinar 

Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, ease of use and more. This webinar will provide an overview of Fedora 4 with a focus on the latest features and developments. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2546 

Related link: http://aims.fao.org/activity/newsletter/new-webinaraims-fedora-4-introduction-and-overview
 

VIVO
POSITION: Join the VIVO Open Source Software Community-Transforming Open Scholarship 
VIVO seeks a dynamic, creative, and innovative Technical Lead for the project. The VIVO Technical Lead will play a major role in a movement that will shape the future of scholarly discovery and collaboration. 

UPDATE: 2015 VIVO Conference Workshops Announced 
The Sixth Annual VIVO Conference will be held August 12-14, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, overlooking Boston. 
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
Registration Available for Digital Preservation with ArchivesDirect Webinar Series 
This series provides detailed insights into developing institutional workflows to get ready, get set and go forward with using ArchivesDirect to preserve and store valuable digital content over time.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2548 
Related link: Register today
RSP 
DURASPACE REGISTERED SERVICE PROVIDER (RSP) HIGHLIGHTS
This section highlights the work of DuraSpace Registered Service Providers.

Chris Wilper Joins @mire 
After being part of the initial Fedora team at Cornell University, Chris was the Fedora tech lead at DuraSpace between 2008 and 2012 and is now a Tech Lead for @mire. 

Asian Development Bank Embraces Open Access 
The Asian Development Bank uses scientific research to optimise the use of available funds. Since February, all of the Asian development bank's publications are collected in the Open Access Repository (OAR) and now, together with the launch of their new repository, the ADB have decided to switch to an open access mindset.

CINECA: New Contributions to the DSpace Community 
New open source contributions that will benefit the DSpace community were the focus of a very prolific month for Cineca. 

DSquare Technology News: DSpace 4 and 5 Now Available in Hindi 

Recently the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi(NII) selected DSpace for hosting its institutional repository, and DSquare Technologies, New Delhi for providing consultancy for educating NII's team for setting up their repository.  

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2543 

Related link: http://www.nii.res.in/

 

Open Repository Welcomes New Client: South African Medical Research Council 
Open Repository is delighted to announce another new client, the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC). They are Open Repository's first client in sub-Saharan Africa. 
Community
COMMUNITY
OR2015 Conference Stands Behind Commitment to Ensure All Participants are Treated With Respect
The Open Repositories 2015 conference will take place June 8-11 in Indianapolis and is wholly committed to creating an open and inclusive conference environment.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2522 
Related link: http://www.or2015.net/code-of-conduct/

CALL for SHARE Notify Atom Feed Testers 
We'd love more feedback on the SHARE atom feed, specifically on how librarians and other consumers of SHARE Notify would like to use it.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2519 
Related link: chrome-extension://nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd/subscribe.html?https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Fshare%2Fatom%2F

NOW AVAILABLE: Digital Preservation Management (DPM) Tools
Digital Preservation Management tools useful to organizations and individuals in developing a right-sized and sustainable digital preservation programs are now available.  
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2528 
Related link: http://dpworkshop.org/workshops/management-tools

ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration Project
The Bentley Historical Library has announced the launch of a blog for the "ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration" project, a collaboration between the Bentley and the University of Michigan Library made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2535 
Related link: http://archival-integration.blogspot.com/

SIGN UP for Current SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) News 

Interested in following SHARE news and events?  To keep up-to-date with the latest news about SHARE sign up. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2540 

Related link: http://www.share-research.org/news/


 

SAVE THE DATES: Trinity College Dublin to Host the 2016 Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories 

The Open Repositories Steering Committee and Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin) are pleased to announce that the Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories will be held at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, the week of June 13th 2016. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2545 

Related link: http://www.or2015.net/
 
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