LYRASIS and DuraSpace Announce Merger: Expanding the Capacity of the Global Scholarly and Scientific Research Ecosystem

March 13, 2019By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized, VIVO

Atlanta, GA – March 13, 2019 – LYRASIS and DuraSpace are pleased to announce that by July 1, 2019, they will officially merge to create one dynamic organization empowered to help drive scalable change, new technologies and vital services. This merger will create a new model for collaboration, innovation and development in the landscape of academic, … Read More

DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event

April 26, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

We’d like to invite you to the first DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event with our Strategic Partner euroCRIS. The DSpace and CRIS Systems one-day Workshop will focus on interoperability between DSpace repositories and CRIS systems prior to the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden, on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. During the DSpace and CRIS systems workshop, DSpace users will have a great opportunity … Read More

Cloud Academy Collaboration to Create Technology Jobs for Disadvantaged Youth

April 26, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

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

Register Today: “Making DSpace Your Own” webinar

April 11, 2018By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

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

DuraSpace Launches New Web Site

June 22, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized, VIVO

DuraSpace has a lot to celebrate in 2017. Our community-supported open source technologies continue to contribute to advancing the access and preservation goals of our member organizations and beyond. The DuraSpace hosted services team is onboarding new customers, while at the same time contributing to efforts to offer new technologies that provide full, hosted access … Read More

PARTICIPATE in Endangered Data Week: April 17-21

March 14, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

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

Moving Towards DSpace 7–Join Us!

February 2, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

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

CALL for Participation in DSpace 7 Development

January 23, 2017By InfoDSpace, Uncategorized

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