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
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
DSpace User Group at The Repository Fringe Conference, July 2-3
From Bram Luyten, Atmire The annual Repository Fringe Conference is taking place on the 2nd and 3rd of July in Edinburgh. The organizers of the repository fringe are kindly making the Kelvin Room at RSE Edinburgh available from 2.00 to 3.30pm on Tuesday July 3rd for a DSpace User Group meeting. If you are interested … Read More
Participate: ORCID in Repositories Task Force
Background and group scope Over the past several years, new ORCID features and increased community uptake have introduced opportunities for ORCID to serve as open infrastructure for automating aspects of repository workflow. While some repositories have developed sophisticated infrastructure that leverages ORCID to automate workflow, support for ORCID is available out of the box in … Read More
DSpace 7 Updates from OR2018, Including a Recorded DSpace 7 Demo
From Tim Donohue, Technical Lead for DSpace and DSpaceDirect In case you were not able to join us last week at the Open Repositories Conference (http://or2018.net) in Bozeman, Montana, or just want to review conference materials, we’ve collected information from all the major DSpace presentations and workshops below. (Please note, there were many other presentations … Read More
Revitalizing DSpace at Duke
From Sean Aery, Digital Projects Developer, Duke University Near the tail end of 2017, the Duke Libraries committed to a major multi-version upgradefor DukeSpace (powered by the open-source repository platform DSpace), and assembled an Avengers-like team to combine its members’ complementary powers to conquer it together. The team persisted through several setbacks and ultimately prevailed in its mission. The … Read More