From Tim Donohue, DuraSpace Technical Lead for DSpace and DSpaceDirect Per the DSpace Steering Group’s June statement on the DSpace 7 Data Model [1] and the DSpace 7 Update talk at OR2018 [2], we are now establishing a DSpace 7 Entities Working Group whose role will be to: • Define an implementation roadmap for DSpace … Read More
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Free Publications from 2018 Shanghai Ranked Institutions in DSpace
From Atmire A wide uptake of institutional repositories facilitates open access access to scientific research. The latest edition of the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities, aka Shanghai Ranking, came out last week. As the list below shows, a large number of these world-renowend make their research outputs freely available for online consultation, through their DSpace … Read More
DSpace Workshop at CONCYTEC–the Peruvian National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation Conference
From Michele Mennielli, International Membership and Partnership Manager for DuraSpace On July 18, 2018 CONCYTEC (the Peruvian National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation) hosted the first DSpace workshop in Peru as a pre-conference event during the National Conference on Research Information. The event was most likely the most attended DSpace workshop ever organized, with … Read More
DSpace Anwendertreffen 2018
The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2018 will take place on Thursday, September 13th, 2018 from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm. It is followed by a meeting of members of DSpace Konsortium Deutschland until 4:30 pm. The DSpace Anwendertreffen is organized by the University Library of Technische Universität Berlin and The Library Code GmbH. This meeting is an … Read More
VIDEO: June DSpace Developer Show & Tell; July Show & Tell on July 31
From Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library The video from the June Developer Show and Tell (OR 2018 Recap) has been posted. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Dev+Show+and+Tell+-+June+26%2C+2018+-+1500UTC+-+OR+2018+Recap The July Developer Show and Tell scheduled for July 31 at 15:00 – 16:30 UTC (11AM ET – 12:30PM ET) will focus on Tools for working with a REST API. The meeting agenda … Read More
Now Available: DSpace 5.9 release, providing bug fixes to 5.x
From Tim Donohue, DSpace and DSpaceDirect Tech Lead, on behalf of the DSpace Committers As you may have seen earlier this week (in the JSPUI security notice email), DSpace 5.9 is now available! DSpace 5.9 provides bug fixes and improvements to the DSpace 5.x platform. DSpace 5.9 can be downloaded immediately from: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-5.9 5.9 Release … Read More
SIGN UP for DSpace 7 (Virtual) Development Sprint #2, July 9-20
From Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect Just a reminder that our Second DSpace Community Sprint is coming up on July 9-20! This is a great opportunity to get familiar with DSpace 7 and also help us complete DSpace 7 more quickly. As of right now, our signup list is still a bit … Read More
KAUST Repository Now Live with ORCIDv2 API
From Bram Luyten, Atmire Originally launched in 2012, KAUST Research Repository has grown to over 18,000 items of KAUST research. KAUST Library and Atmire have worked together on the latest KAUST Repository upgrade featuring ORCIDv2 support, audiovisual streaming and other improvements. ORCIDv2 and Author authority control The majority of new items coming into KAUST Repository is mediated … Read More
4Science Updates from the Open Repositories and EuroCRIS Conferences
From Claudio Cortese, 4Science In June two major events were held involving the Repositories Community: Open Repositories OR2018 in Bozeman, MT (USA), and CRIS2018 in Umeå (Sweden). In Bozeman 4Science took part in presentations related to providing updates on DSpace 7 development (here you can find all the talks/workshops). 4Science co-led the workshop on DSpace 7 … Read More
Call for DSpace Leadership Group Nominations
The DSpace project is seeking two individuals from the community to be an active participant in the future of DSpace by serving as a member of the DSpace Leadership Group. We invite anyone in the DSpace community, DuraSpace members (whose institution doesn’t already have a Leadership Group seat) or non-members of DuraSpace, to nominate … Read More