From Pascal Becker, The Library Code Stuttgart, Germany The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2017 (formally known as German DSpace User Group Meeting) will take place at Stuttgart University Library on Thursday, 21st September 2017. It is organized by Stuttgart University Library, Fraunhofer IRB and The Library Code. This Meeting is about informal exchange between DSpace users. As the number of attendees rose in the … Read More
Data curation
PARTICIPATE in Endangered Data Week: April 17-21
From Bethany Nowviskie, Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) at CLIR and Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Virginia Washington, DC DLF and CLIR invite you to participate in Endangered Data Week, a distributed network of events running from April 17th-21st, 2017: endangereddataweek.org Endangered Data Week is a new, annual, grassroots effort to: raise awareness of threats to publicly available data of … Read More
Managing Cultural Heritage with DSpace–Yes We Can!
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
DuraSpace at Your Service
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
COAR Seeks Comments on Vision for Next Generation Repositories
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
CALL for Participation in DSpace 7 Development
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
AVAILABLE: DSpace-CRIS 5.6 and DSpace-CKAN
From Andrea Bollini, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer,4Science On November 16, 4Science announced to the DSpace Community the release of the 5.6(.1) version of DSpace-CRIS built on top of DSpace JSPUI 5.6: https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/tree/dspace-cris-5.6.1 Together with the new version, at the same time we released a new add-on module for DSpace(-CRIS) named DSpace-CKAN: https://github.com/4Science/dspace-ckan You can take … Read More
NOW AVAILABLE: DSpace 6.0–API Enhancements and New Features
From Tim Donohue, DSpace Tech Lead for DuraSpace, on behalf of the DSpace developers I would like to formally announce that DSpace 6.0 is now available! DSpace 6 provides significant API enhancements and new features to the DSpace platform. DSpace 6.0 can be downloaded immediately from: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-6.0 6.0 Release notes are available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Release+Notes In addition, you … Read More
Telling DSpace Stories at The National Library of Finland with Samu Viita
“Telling DSpace Stories” is a community-led initiative aimed at introducing project leaders and their ideas to one another while providing details about DSpace implementations for the community and beyond. The following interview conducted by Carol Minton Morris with Samu Viita includes personal observations that may not represent the opinions and views of the National Library … Read More
Michele Kimpton: Vision and Skill Marked Tenure as DuraSpace CEO
Winchester, MA Debra Hanken Kurtz became the new CEO of DuraSpace on February 16, 2015, taking the reigns from outgoing CEO Michele Kimpton. Ms. Kurtz looks forward to leading the organization in new directions while building on the solid foundation established by Ms. Kimpton. Recently Kimpton paused to reflect on key accomplishments and changes during her … Read More