DuraSpace is collaborating with Digital Divide Data (DDD), a non-profit social enterprise creating sustainable digital and technology jobs for disadvantaged, underprivileged, and underserved youth communities worldwide. DDD provides technical training for youth by partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Together they formed a Cloud Academy in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2017 with a goal to teach AWS … Read More
CALL for Participation: The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2018
From Pascal-Nicolas Becker, The Library Code GmbH The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2018 will take place at the university library of Technische Universität Berlin, on Thursday, 13th September 2018. It is organized by the university library of Technische Universität Berlin and The Library Code GmbH. This meeting is about informal exchange between DSpace users. After the success of the … Read More
Call for participation: DSpace Anwendertreffen 2018
From Pascal-Nicolas Becker, The Library Code GmbH The DSpace User Meeting 2018 will take place at the University of Berlin, on Thursday, 13th September 2018. It is organized by the University of Berlin and The Library Code GmbH, a DSpace Registered Service Provider. This meeting is about informal exchange between DSpace users. After the success of the program last year, we kindly ask … Read More
Announcing the first DSpace 7 (Virtual) Development Sprint May 7 – 18
From Tim Donohue, DSpace Tech Lead I’m proud to announce our first DSpace (Virtual) Development Sprint on the DSpace 7 codebase from May 7 to 18. We are in search of developers interested in joining us for a two week sprint (you need not be available for the entire two weeks). Sprint developers/participants will help us make enhancements … Read More
Register Today: “Making DSpace Your Own” webinar
There are a few spots left for the DuraSpace community webinar, register today! “Making DSpace Your Own” on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 12:00p.m. EST. Presented by Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, Applications Programmer Analyst, Department of Library Information Technology While there are many exciting changes under development with the future DSpace 7 User Interface, this … Read More
Become a DuraSpace Member: Building Bridges to Worldwide Open Scholarship With Open Source Technologies and Open Standards
Today we officially launch the 2018 DuraSpace Membership Campaign. The campaign raises funds to support the continued advancement of the DuraSpace projects – DSpace, Fedora, VIVO, and CASRAI. While DuraSpace, a non-profit, proudly provides both the software and standards for free for anyone to use, we rely on the financial support and collaboration of our members to continue to … Read More
Announcement: CASRAI to Become a DuraSpace Project
The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) improves the flow of information within and between research stakeholders by developing and maintaining standard information agreements among various stakeholders in the research enterprise. The DuraSpace organization and CASRAI are pleased to announce that CASRAI is now a project of DuraSpace. Together they will work to enable … Read More
DEADLINE April 9 for DSpace repository and CRIS systems Event Proposals
DuraSpace and euroCRIS will co-host a one-day event to focus on interoperability between DSpace repository and CRIS systems in advance of the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden – on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. In February 2017 DuraSpace and euroCRIS signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the intent of working with the respective communities in order to share ideas and best practices … Read More
3 Million Medical Downloads per Month
From Bram Luyten, Atmire WHO Library in Geneva releases new features for IRIS, the extensive public health DSpace repository, including statistics and automated recommendations. Introducing IRIS The Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) is the digital library of WHO’s published material and technical information in full text produced since 1948. Its content is freely accessible and searchable … Read More
4Science Brings You New Features and Areas of Use for DSpace
From Claudio Cortese, 4Science 4Science has several new projects for 2018 and will participate in significant conferences for the repository community. We’re looking forward to Open Repositories 2018 where 4Science will participate as a sponsor. At OR2018 we will present some of our main projects, either recently completed or in progress. Presentations may include: Hasselt University (Belgium) … Read More