DuraSpace presents a community webinar, “Open Source Repository Upgrades: Top Advice from Practitioners” on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 12:00p.m. EST. Presented by Erin Tripp, Business Development Manager, DuraSpace Many in the DuraSpace and affiliate communities are preparing for major upgrades to their digital repositories. For some, the upgrades will impact underlying technologies, data models, standards … Read More
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Call for Papers extension—Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open
The 13th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2018, will be held on June 4th-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA. The call for papers and scholarships have been extended until the 15th January 2018. The theme for Open Repositories 2018 is 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, … Read More
From Ethiopia to Portugal: Say Goodbye to 2017 and Welcome to 2018
From Claudio Cortese, 4Science 4Science is in Africa to support VLIR-UOS. VLIR-UOS is a Flemish initiative that supports partnerships between universities in Flanders (Belgium) and in developing countries, looking for innovative responses to global and local challenges. In the framework of the institutional cooperation with Bahir Dar University (BDU), Ethiopia, and particularly the Phase 1 Transversal Institutional … Read More
Migrating to DSpace
From Atmire Are your considering to migrate your current repository to DSpace but you are wondering what the options are? Over the years, Atmire has carried out migrations from a variety of platforms such as EPrints, Fedora, Digital Commons, CONTENTdm, DigiTool, Equella and homegrown software. Because of its wide array of commonly used import facilities … Read More
Research and Cultural Heritage Ecosystems Better Supported by 4Science
From Claudio Cortese, 4Science 4Science is pleased to announce that we have joined, as the first participant, the Certified DuraSpace Partner Program to deliver DuraCloud services. This partnership will facilitate delivery of DuraCloud digital preservation and content storage services in Europe, offering cloud-hosted services and application support in additional time zones and languages. At 4Science, … Read More
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
DSpace-CRIS and DSpace-GLAM: The Community is Expanding
From Claudio Cortese, 4Science More and more institutions are adopting DSpace-CRIS and DSpace-GLAM worldwide. There is a growing interest around our open source solutions based on DSpace, with more and more institutions adopting them worldwide. Slides from a recent webinar entitled “DSpace-CRIS: How it Works and how to Leverage it” were presented by: Susanna Mornati, … Read More
Open Repository Revamp: The Premium and Affordable DSpace Service
From Bram Luyten, Atmire As the most widely adopted repository platform, supported by a vast international community, DSpace is an open source marvel. However, using it to build and operate a world class repository service has not been a trivial task for many institutions. It has frustrated the Atmire team that countless institutions could just … Read More
Hot Topics at 4Science: ORCiD API v.2 and New Projects in Four Continents
From Susanna Mornati, 4Science 4Science released DSpace-CRIS 5.8, including the support for ORCiD API v.2. 4Science is more and more international! Plenty of new DSpace and DSpace-CRIS projects began this month, from Africa with the Durban University of Technology to Asia with the University of Kuwait, to Europe with the University College Dublin, the … Read More
4Science: Improve and Spread the Use of DSpace in Different Contexts
It has been a busy summer here at 4Science, with the new release of DSpace-CRIS and the ongoing development of DSpace 7. September will be even more exciting, with two important appointments, in order to share our ideas about the best way to use DSpace in different contexts. During the last months 4Science developers released … Read More