The DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce that Evviva Weinraub has been elected to the DuraSpace Board of Directors as the Board-Member-at-Large representative. Evviva is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies at Northwestern University. She provides leadership and advocacy for Information Technology, Digital Initiatives, Repository and Digitization Services, Metadata, Resource Discovery, User Experience, and … Read More
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CALL–Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open
From Open Repositories 2018 Program Co-Chairs Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub Open Repositories 2018 is now calling for proposals around the theme of Sustaining Open. http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/ Research and Cultural Heritage communities have embraced the idea of Open; open communities, open source software, open data, scholarly communications, and open access publications and collections. These projects and communities require … Read More
DSpace-CRIS and DSpace-GLAM: The Community is Expanding
From Claudio Cortese, 4Science More and more institutions are adopting DSpace-CRIS and DSpace-GLAM worldwide. There is a growing interest around our open source solutions based on DSpace, with more and more institutions adopting them worldwide. Slides from a recent webinar entitled “DSpace-CRIS: How it Works and how to Leverage it” were presented by: Susanna Mornati, … Read More
Open Repository Revamp: The Premium and Affordable DSpace Service
From Bram Luyten, Atmire As the most widely adopted repository platform, supported by a vast international community, DSpace is an open source marvel. However, using it to build and operate a world class repository service has not been a trivial task for many institutions. It has frustrated the Atmire team that countless institutions could just … Read More
German User Group Meeting
From Pascal-Nicolas Becker, The Library Code and Michele Mennielli, DuraSpace On September 21, 2017 The Library Code GmbH, the Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Informationszentrum Raum und Bau IRB organized in Stuttgart the 4th edition of 4th edition of the DSpace Anwendertreffen (German-speaking DSpace User Group meeting). More than 70 attendees from all over Germany … Read More
Reminder: Board-Member-at-Large Nominations Accepted through Friday!
DuraSpace invites the Community to nominate the next Board-Member-at-Large! Nominations accepted through Friday, October 13th. We invite anyone in the community, DuraSpace members or non-members, to nominate an individual who you believe would be a good representative for the community. All nominees must be from DuraSpace member organizations (see full list here) and Board-Member-at-Large candidates … Read More
UPDATE: DuraSpace Migration/ Upgrade Survey: Call for Participation
From Erin Tripp <etripp@duraspace.org >, Business Development Manager The DuraSpace community is sharing their migration and upgrade stories. Now let’s hear from you! We captured 12 migration stories and have 11 more interviews pending. Managers, librarians, application analysts/ engineers, and project managers from the United States, Canada, the UK, and Switzerland talked about migrations and upgrades … Read More
DuraSpace Invites the Community to Nominate the Next Board-Member-at-Large!
Beginning today, we invite anyone in the community, DuraSpace members or non-members, to nominate an individual who you believe would be a good representative for the community. All nominees must be from DuraSpace member organizations (see full list here) and Board-Member-at-Large candidates should be at the senior management level at their organizations, having fiscal and … Read More
Introducing the DuraSpace Code of Conduct
DuraSpace is an international community dedicated to providing a welcoming, inclusive and positive experience for all members of our community. This includes formal gatherings, social settings, and online activities including mailing lists, wikis, web sites, IRC channels, Slack, and/or private correspondence. Accordingly, all community members are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees … Read More
Hot Topics at 4Science: ORCiD API v.2 and New Projects in Four Continents
From Susanna Mornati, 4Science 4Science released DSpace-CRIS 5.8, including the support for ORCiD API v.2. 4Science is more and more international! Plenty of new DSpace and DSpace-CRIS projects began this month, from Africa with the Durban University of Technology to Asia with the University of Kuwait, to Europe with the University College Dublin, the … Read More