DuraSpace Digest
Vol. 7, Issue 6, June 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

- DuraSpace Joins Hague Declaration

- Be the Power Behind Community Source-Tune in to a DuraSpace Quickbyte to Learn More

- Which DuraSpace Repository Platform or Cloud Service is Right for Me?

 

DuraSpace Projects

DSpace 

- The DSpace Technology Roadmap at OR2015

- Watch the DSpace Roadmap Talk, Send Feedback and Get Involved

- Welcome Terry Brady, Georgetown University: New DSpace Committer

- DSpace in Vietnam with Registered Service Provider D & L Technology Integration and Consulting 

  

Fedora

- REGISTRATION IS OPEN for Fedora Camp at Duke University

- MOVING Content: Institutional Tools and Strategies for Fedora 3 to 4 Upgrations

- NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 3.8.1 for Institutions Running Fedora 3 as a Production Service

- UPDATE: Integrating Islandora and Fedora 4

 

VIVO

- VIVO Keynote announced: Dr. James Onken

- VIVO Conference Update: Invited Speaker Justin Starren

 

DuraSpace Services

- Figshare and DuraCloud Announce New Partnership

- ArchivesDirect Information Sessions Now Available

 

DuraSpace Corporate Sponsors & Registered Service Provider (RSP) Highlights

- DSpace User Group Highlights from OAI9

-Tecnalia Research and Innovation Launches its Institutional Repository

- Meet the Open Repository Team at the CILIP Conference, 2-3rd July!

 

Community   

- Ten Years After: Open Repositories Conferences Fulfill the Promise of "Open"

- SAFE Archiving Federation Private LOCKSS Network: International Preservation and Access Solution

- Amy Brand Named New Director of the MIT Press

 

DuraSpace Joins Hague Declaration  

DuraSpace has joined global organizations in signing the Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age. The document advocates for rapid changes to intellectual property (IP) law in order to promote wide and equal access to data. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2592 

Related link: http://thehaguedeclaration.com/

 

Be the Power Behind Community Source-Tune in to a DuraSpace Quickbyte to Learn More  

Check out the most recent DuraSpace Quickbyte, "You Are the Power Behind Community Source" and hear about the opportunities a DuraSpace membership provides you and your institution. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2595 

Related link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H86N4MQ9hEA&feature=youtu.be

 

Which DuraSpace Repository Platform or Cloud Service is Right for Me?  

Two new, simple comparison tables are available at DuraSpace.org to help you think through selecting a repository platform or a cloud service that will work for your institution or organization from among DuraSpace project and service offerings. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2607 

Related link: http://duraspace.org/technologies/whats-the-repository-for-me


Visit the DuraSpace Community Calendar or our recent Event Blog Posts 
for a comprehensive online view of upcoming community events.
DSProjects
DURASPACE PROJECTS
DSpace 
The DSpace Technology Roadmap at OR2015 
At last week's Open Repositories Conference Tim Donohue, DSpace Technical Lead, presented the DSpace Technology Roadmap for 2015-2016 on behalf of Roadmap Working Group members. Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2608 

Watch the DSpace Roadmap Talk, Send Feedback and Get Involved 
If you are interested in where DSpace is going in the next few years, I'd highly recommend reviewing the Roadmap and providing us with any feedback you may have. 

Welcome Terry Brady, Georgetown University: New DSpace Committer 
Terry Brady is a software developer for the Georgetown University Library customizing open source and commercial library applications including DigitalGeorgetown. 

DSpace in Vietnam with Registered Service Provider D & L Technology Integration and Consulting
D & L Technology Integration and Consulting, a new DuraSpace Registered Service Provider located in Hanoi-Vietnam is part of the worldwide effort to provide open access to global culture and scholarship. 
Related link: http://dlcorp.com.vn/
Fedora

REGISTRATION IS OPEN for Fedora Camp at Duke University 

Come to Fedora Camp, November 16-18 (Monday-Wednesday) at Duke University where participants will have a chance to dive in and learn all about Fedora 4. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2602 

Related link: Registration
 

MOVING Content: Institutional Tools and Strategies for Fedora 3 to 4 Upgrations  

The Fedora team has made tools that simplify content migration from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 available to assist institutions in establishing production repositories. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2606 

Related links: Fedora-Migrate, Fedora Migration Utilities

 

NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 3.8.1 for Institutions Running Fedora 3 as a Production Service 

On June 11, 2015 Fedora 3.8.1 was released with bug fixes and improvements that include performance improvements, code cleanup and reorganization, and upgrades of library dependencies to the most modern versions possible for stability. 

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2611 

Related link: 

 https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA38/Fedora+Repository+3.8.1+Release+Notes

 

UPDATE: Integrating Islandora and Fedora 4 

The Open Repositories 2015 Conference marked the completion of the first phase of the Islandora 7.x-2.x (Fedora 4 integration) project.  

Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2620 

Related link: http://islandora.ca/content/fedora-4-project-update-v

VIVO
VIVO Keynote announced: Dr. James Onken 
We are delighted to welcome Dr. James Onken, Senior Advisor to the NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, to deliver a keynote talk at the 2015 VIVO Conference. 

VIVO Conference Update: Invited Speaker Justin Starren 
Justin Starren, M.D., Ph.D., FACMI. Dr. Starren is founding Chief of the Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Deputy Director of the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) and Director of the Feinberg Center for Data Science and Informatics (CDSI). 
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
Figshare and DuraCloud Announce New Partnership 
The collaboration will combine the end-user experience of 
figshare.com with the powerful storage, management, and preservation functionalities of DuraCloud.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2610 
Related link: http://figshare.com/

ArchivesDirect Information Sessions Now Available 
Monthly information sessions are now available and aim to familiarize interested individuals with ArchivesDirect's features and functionality.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2619 
Related link: http://archivesdirect.org/register

RSP 
DURASPACE CORPORATE SPONSORS & REGISTERED SERVICE PROVIDER (RSP) HIGHLIGHTS
This section highlights the work of DuraSpace Corporate Sponsors and Registered Service Providers.

DSpace User Group Highlights from OAI9 
DSpace users from all over Europe gathered to catch up with each other's ideas and use cases. Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2621

Tecnalia Research and Innovation Launches its Institutional Repository 
Tecnalia Research & Innovation Foundation, a technological applied-research centre with over 1500 employees, teamed up with Arvo Consulting, to build its Institutional Repository

Meet the Open Repository Team at the CILIP Conference, 2-3rd July! 
Our team will be on hand to demo Open Repository's enhanced DSpace platform and discuss any open access requirements. 
Community
COMMUNITY
Ten Years After: Open Repositories Conferences Fulfill the Promise of "Open" 
A look back over ten years of Open Repositories (OR) conferences to see what has changed and what's stayed the same is also a story about the open access, open source repository communities that the conference serves. 
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2614 
Related link: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/

SAFE Archiving Federation Private LOCKSS Network: International Preservation and Access Solution
 
SAFE-PLN (SAFE Archiving Federation Private LOCKSS Network)
 partners are glad to announce their data archiving grid is open to international partners.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2597 
Related link: http://www.safepln.org./

Amy Brand Named New Director of the MIT Press 
The MIT Press has named Amy Brand PhD '89, an executive with a wide array of experience in academic publishing and communications, as its new director.
Read the post: http://duraspace.org/articles/2616 
Related link: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/
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