The digital preservation landscape is one of a multitude of choices that vary widely in terms of purpose, scale, cost, and complexity. Over the past year a group of collaborating organizations united in the commitment to digital preservation have come together to explore how we can better communicate with each other and assist members of … Read More
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CALL–Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open
From Open Repositories 2018 Program Co-Chairs Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub Open Repositories 2018 is now calling for proposals around the theme of Sustaining Open. http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/ Research and Cultural Heritage communities have embraced the idea of Open; open communities, open source software, open data, scholarly communications, and open access publications and collections. These projects and communities require … Read More
The 2.5% Commitment
This blog post was contributed by David W. Lewis, Dean of the IUPUI University Library, dlewis@iupui.edu This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license The Commitment: Every academic library should commit to contribute 2.5% of its total budget to support the common infrastructure needed to create the open scholarly commons. Academic Libraries and … Read More
DuraSpace Launches New Web Site
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
Open Repositories 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA
Bozeman, MT Montana State University is pleased to announce the 13th annual Open Repositories conference June 4-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana. We are excited to host Open Repositories 2018 in this beautiful place. We encourage you to discover more aboutBozeman, Montana State University, the state of Montana, Glacier National Park, and Yellowstone National Park as we plan for the conference. Montana State … Read More
DuraSpace Reception Celebrating Community at OR2017
Are you traveling to the 11th Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2017)? Please join DuraSpace, a proud supporting organization of OR2017, at an open reception in celebration of our community: • When: Wednesday, June 28 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM • Where: Stock Exchange Hotel, 131 Edward Street in Brisbane We hope to … Read More
PASIG at Oxford
From Sarah Mason, Bodleian Libraries on behalf of the PASIG Steering Committee We are excited to announce that this year’s PASIG conference will be in Oxford, UK from 11 – 13 September 2017. The event is being hosted and organised by the Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge (DPOC) team. PASIG is a place to share practical … Read More
PARTICIPATE: Beyond the Repository Survey On Distributed Preservation
From the “Beyond the Repository” Team: Laura Alagna, Carolyn Caizzi, Brendan Quinn, Sibyl Schaefer, Evviva Weinraub Northwestern University Libraries and the University of California San Diego Library are investigating the integration of local digital repository services with distributed preservation networks, such as The Digital Preservation Network (DPN), Chronopolis, and the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust). This research … Read More
Welcome New DuraSpace Board Members Kaitlin Thaney and Wolfram Horstmann
Austin, TX The DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce that Kaitlin Thaney and Wolfram Horstmann have accepted appointments to the DuraSpace Board of Directors. Kaitlin Thaney is an open advocate and Senior Fellow at Mozilla. Most recently, Ms. Thaney served as the Director of Mozilla Leadership Networks at the Mozilla Foundation, overseeing community-based programs in science, learning, … Read More
REGISTER for OR2017–Take Advantage of Early Bird Registration ’til April 21
From the organizers of the International Conference on Open Repositories We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 12th International Conference on Open Repositories, to be held on June 26-30, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. Full registration details and a link to the registration form may be found here<https://or2017.net/registration/>. OR 2017 is co-hosted by … Read More