From Michele Mennielli, International Business Developer 4Science Rome, Italy DSpace provides many of the features of a Digital Library Asset Management System (DAMS), indeed it is already used by hundreds of institutions all around the world as a DAMS. DSpace stores, preserves and disseminates digital cultural heritage content fulfilling the four main tasks required … Read More
From Michael Guthrie, KnowledgeArc Hove, UK Oslo and Akershus University College (Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus or HiOA) have deployed their two new institutional repositories, HiOA Open Digital Archive and HiOA Fagarkivet on the KnowledgeArc managed, hosted DSpace platform. Significant in these deployments is that they are both integrated fully with the Joomla Content Management … Read More
Austin, TX How can we help? That’s what we at DuraSpace hope to learn from you, our valued community. We have developed a 4-question survey that should take you no more than 5 minutes to complete aimed at learning more about how DuraSpace might better serve our community. We have heard directly and indirectly from … Read More
From Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Göttingen, Germany COAR is pleased to announce the publication of the initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group for public comment. In April 2016, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) launched a working group to help identify new functionalities and … Read More
From the DSpace 7 UI outreach group Austin, TX Every other Thursday developers from countries around the world gather online to map out priorities and next steps towards getting started on a framework for DSpace 7–with an Angular 2 UI. The group is led by Art Lowel at Atmire. Coding is underway. The group is investigating … Read More
From Tim Donohue, DSpace Tech Lead, on behalf of the DSpace 7 team Austin, TX Over the past month, developers and technologists from DuraSpace, Atmire, 4Science, Texas A&M and other institutions have established a DSpace 7 UI Working Group with the goals of creating a new Angular 2 user interface (UI) and refactoring the REST … Read More
Austin, TX We at DuraSpace are looking forward to a productive year in partnership with our valued community while also looking back over a decade of community development and action, open source technology advances, and organizational growth. We took a moment to dream big. Could we better integrate mindshare? What would thoughtful expansion look like? … Read More
From the Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee The Open Repositories Steering Committee invites applications for the Open Repositories 2017 Scholarship Programme. Scholarships provide support for a small number of full registered places for the 2017 conference in Brisbane through a competitive application process. It is open to librarians, repository managers, developers, and researchers in digital … Read More