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
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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
KnowledgeArc Welcomes
From Michael Guthrie, KnowledgeArc KnowledgeArc welcomes new NHS Trusts archives to the managed hosting platform We are pleased to welcome Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to the KnowledgeArc managed DSpace and Docman hosting. Along with Derbyshire Trusts and Nottinghamshire Trust this brings the number of NHS trusts with … Read More
Important updates to DuraSpace’s privacy policy
GDPR is coming! At DuraSpace we have always cared about protecting your privacy. In order to meet the new General Data Protection Regulation that goes into effect Friday May 25, 2018, we have made a few changes to our Privacy Policy. Our primary objective in meeting these requirements is service to our community. Our approach … Read More
Recording and Slides Available from the Hot Topics Series: The 2.5% Commitment: Investing in Open
Members of Duraspace are among leaders of institutions from all over the world who share a belief that our digital scientific and cultural heritage should be preserved and made accessible for future generations. Members of DuraSpace have been invited to become part of a conversation that aims to begin an investigation into what it will … Read More
Neki IT in Latin-American Free Software Installation Festival (FLISoL) 2018
Neki IT participated in the Latin-American Free Software Installation Festival (FLISoL in Portuguese) this April. Neki IT represented DSpace at the event, providing its perspective and experience of working with the open source repository platform since 2005. The FLISoL festival takes place in several cities in Latin America and it aims to promote the use … Read More
SCHEDULE Available: One-day DuraSpace and euroCRIS DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event
The schedule for the DuraSpace-euroCRIS Interoperability Event focused on interoperability between DSpace repository and CRIS systems on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 (in advance of the CRIS 2018 Conference in Umeå, Sweden) is now available: http://www.cris2018.se/schedule/ The CRIS 2018 Conference offers both DuraSpace and euroCRIS the right opportunity to bring the two communities together. This first … Read More