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Charlottetown, PEI, Canada This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your ... [More] accommodation as soon as you can!  We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline has been extended until Monday, March 4th! This year’s conference theme is Use, Reuse, Reproduce. One of the most important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents— whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software—and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be extended to repository infrastructure as well. Many repositories are based on open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community specific reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive fields - in order to promote reproducible research. We are very pleased to announce that the opening keynote this year will be Victoria Stodden of Columbia University and co-founder of http://www.runmycode.org/. See more about Dr. Stodden here: http://www.stodden.net/. More details available on the conference web site: http://or2013.net. Hash tag #OR2013 [Less]

From the TPDL organizing committee The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries constitutes a leading European scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and ... [More] users in the field of digital libraries. The 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) is organized by the University of Malta and it will be held in Valetta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013. Aims and scope Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are produced or transformed into digital form by all fields of science, education, culture, business and government. For this purpose the digital libraries community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such as conceptual models, added value infrastructures, software tools, standards and services. The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is on the centre of the discussions of the community. Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the  development of a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges.   TPDL 2013 under the general theme "sharing meaningful information", invites submissions describing original, unpublished research and not (and will not be)simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere, for the proliferation of scientific and research osmosis in the following categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity in a triple peer review process.   The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). The authors of the best research papers presented to TPDL2013 will be invited to submit substantially extended versions of their paper for publication in a Focused Issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/799). Topics General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four categories, according to a conceptualization that coincides with the four arms of the Maltese Cross: Foundations - Information models - Digital Library conceptual models and formal issues - Digital Library 2.0 - Digital library education curricula - Economic and legal (e.g. rights management), landscape for digital libraries - Theoretical models of information interaction and organization - Information policies - Studies of human factors in networked information - Scholarly primitives - Novel research tools and methods with emphasis on digital humanities - User behavior analysis and modeling - Social-technical perspectives of digital information   Infrastructures - Digital Library architectures - Cloud and grid deployments - Federation of repositories - Collaborative and participatory information environments - Data storage and indexing - Big data management - e-science, e-government, e-learning, cultural heritage infrastructures - Semi Structured data - Semantic web issues in digital libraries - Ontologies and knowledge organization systems - Linked data and their applications   Content - Metadata schemas with emphasis to metadata for composite content (Multimedia, geographical, statistical data and other special content formats) - Interoperability and Information integration - Digital Curation and related workflows - Preservation, authenticity and provenance - Web archiving - Social media, and dynamically generated content for particular uses/communities (education, science, public, etc.) - Crowdsourcing - 3D models indexing and retrieval - Authority management issues   Services - Information Retrieval and browsing - Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval - Personalization in digital libraries - Context awareness in information access - Semantic aware services - Technologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries, e.g., mobile devices - Visualization of large-scale information environments - Evaluation of online information environments - Quality metrics - Interfaces to digital libraries - Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information - Social networks analysis and virtual organizations - Traditional and alternative metrics of scholarly communication - Mashups of resources   Important Dates - Full and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 23, 2013 - Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: March 4, 2013 - Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: May 20, 2013 - Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: April 22, 2013 - Camera Ready Versions: June 9, 2013 - Doctoral Consortium Papers Submission Deadline: June 2, 2013 - Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2013 - End of Early Registration: July 31, 2013 - Conference Dates: September 22-26, 2013 Formatting Instructions Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Therefore all submissions should conform to the formatting instructions described in the "For Authors" webpage (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). In case your paper includes images or screenshots please ensure that you set image compression at 600dpi when you produce your PDF file. Submission Full papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) via the conference's EasyChair submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2013). According to the Registration Regulation for TPDL 2013, inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper. [Less]

From the Repository Fringe Organising Committee Edinburgh, Scotland  The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Edinburgh University Library are delighted to announce that after its temporary incorporation ... [More] into Open Repositories 2012 the Repository Fringe will return as a standalone event this year to be held in the Informatics Forum from 31 July to 2 August 2013. Further sponsors and supporters to be announced. Repository Fringe aims to showcase a range of innovative repository and related developments to coincide with 'preview week' that precedes the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Designed for an audience of developers and coders, repository managers and practitioners, the programme retains an 'unconference' feel to it, and seeks to canvas contribution from a wide range of repository actors for:   • Live demonstrations of innovative work; • "Lightning" presentations on any subject relating to current, or future repository endeavours; • Facilitated Round Table discussions; • Tutorials and presentations on related topics; • Workshops and developer day activities including a 'Code Challenge'; • Last but not least, after a notable presentation at the 2011 event we are also happy to accept presentations with live musical accompaniment! Keynote speakers will open and close Repository Fringe 2013. The dates of the event coincide with the start of the Edinburgh Festival season, which includes the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Festival , Edinburgh International Book Festival, as well as the usual impromptu street theatre, musicians and sideshows. Registration for this free event will open shortly. University accommodation is available on a first-come, first-served basis, details are available at  http://www.book.accom.ed.ac.uk/. Please note, accommodation is in high demand at that time of year so early booking is advisable. Website: http://repositoryfringe.org/ For further enquiries contact: [email protected]. Or follow us on Twitter: @repofringe,  https://twitter.com/repofringe, hashtag #rfringe13. [Less]

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 Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced! Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CA  This year’s Open ... [More] Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can!  We are very pleased to announce that the opening keynote this year will be Victoria Stodden of Columbia University and co-founder of http://www.runmycode.org/. See more about Dr. Stodden here: http://www.stodden.net/.  We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline (Feb 22) is quickly approaching! This year’s conference theme is Use, Reuse, Reproduce. One of the most important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents— whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software—and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be extended to repository infrastructure as well. Many repositories are based on open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community specific reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive fields - in order to promote reproducible research. Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are:   • Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by embedded repository tools and services • Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to support repository development • Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and code • Services making use of repository metadata • Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and infrastructure for use and reuse of content • Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with repositories to provide solutions to specific domains • Added-value services for repositories • Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents • Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem   The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities.

 Submissions can take the form of proposals for presentations, panels, posters, demonstrations, and workshops. We will consider any submission that seems to us sufficiently original and repository-related to merit attention at this event, but we’ll give preference to submissions that address our primary theme. In some cases, papers submitted to the general conference may be referred to user groups if appropriate. 

Key dates and contacts:   • 22 February 2013: Deadline for submissions • 12 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference • 19 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups • 8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference: • 8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops • 9-11 July 2013: General Conference • 11-12 July 2013: DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora user group meetings   Submission process
 • Conference Papers and Panels
 We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that deal with organizational, theoretical, practical, or administrative issues of digital repositories and repository services that are not specific to a particular technical platform. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference’s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as a User Group presentation. 

 • User Group Presentations
 One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms. • 24x7 Presentation Proposals
 We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This forum will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster. • 

Posters and Demos 
We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters and demonstrations. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn’t appropriate for a paper; you’ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference.

 • Workshops and Tutorials
 One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Workshops and tutorials will take place on the Monday before the conference. Please address the following in your proposal:   • The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey • Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?) • How many attendees you plan to accommodate • Technology and facility requirements • Any other supplies or support required • A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session • Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session   • Developer Challenge
 Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2013 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress. If you have any requests that fall outside of the call, such as satellite meetings, please contact the local conference chair, Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island, at [email protected]. PLEASE submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors’ names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system is linked from the conference web site (http://or2013.net/).     [Less]

Pretoria, South Africa  More than one thousand years ago the thriving Iron Age pre-colonial state of Mapungubwe existed where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers came together in an area that would later become the Kingdom of Zimbabwe. The Mapungubwe ... [More] archaeological site is culturally meaningful because it provides evidence of southern Africa’s prehistory. The Mapungubwe Museum and Collection is housed at the University of Pretoria and manages about 156,000 cultural, natural, technological and historical objects related to the Mapungubwe site. The UPSpace DSpace repository serves as the digital research repository for the Mapungubwe Museum, its collections and archive. The UPSpace Mapungubwe Museum Archive consists of research publications, unpublished material such as theses, reports and other documents, photographs, negatives, slides, maps, manuscripts, commercial publications, newspaper clippings, audio-visual material, drawings, site plans, excavation and site reports, and correspondance. With more than 3,500 documents relating to the history and excavations at the Mapungubwe site UPSpace is helping to provide access and preserve a valuable part of African heritage. More information About the Mapungubwe Collection: http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=14724&subid=14724 UPSpace Mapungubwe Museum Archive: http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/589 With thanks to Hettie Groenewald, Institutional Repository Manager, University of Pretoria. [Less]

From Marianne Smith, Director, Internet2 Washington, DC  The Call for Participation for the 2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting is open! This includes calls for Proposals and Working Meetings. Call for ... [More] Participation: http://events.internet2.edu/2013/spring-mm/calls.cfm 2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting web site: http://events.internet2.edu/2013/spring-mm/index.html In 2013 Internet2 is transitioning from twice-yearly Member Meetings to a new annual meeting format. The first Internet2 Annual Meeting will be held April 21–24, 2013 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. Research and education (R&E) leaders from institutions around the world will convene in an environment of open engagement, free exchange, partnership and collaboration. This forum, designed to support advancements in R&E, spur innovation, and accelerate global discovery, will provide a toolkit for community leaders to confront organizational, national, and global challenges in new ways. The thematic focus of the 2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting is Transforming Global Research and Education, with an emphasis on Education at the Margins. Together as a community, we will explore how universities, National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and other organizations are using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and networks to educate students—both domestically and globally—with a particular focus on reaching those in remote areas. Within this context, meeting sessions will examine topics related to innovations in infrastructure, global R&E trends, revolutionary and disruptive applications, and Internet2’s community cloud services.   Full explanations and examples of related topics, as well as the submission form, are provided in the Call for Participation web page. The submission deadline is February 13, 2013. We are also accepting requests for Working Meetings and Meeting Sponsors. Please refer to the website for full details. Meeting registration will open the week of February 4! Register early to get the best rates and start making your travel plans now. [Less]

This year's ACRL 2013 (Association of College and Research Libraries) will be held in Indianapolis, April 10-13. Early registration discounts are available until Feb. 22 (http://conference.acrl.org/). If you are planning to attend please visit ... [More] DuraSpace and @mire at the DSpace booth and "Discover DSpace"—the most widely-used open source digital repository software in the world serving libraries, universities, research centers, government agencies, and companies that manage, collect, and share all types of digital assets including journal articles, research papers, electronic thesis, images, video, datasets, and archives. Find out how DSpace services offered by @mire (http://atmire.com/) and DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), including DSpaceCloud (http://dspacecloud.org/) hosting, can help you make the most of your digital content. More details to follow. [Less]

Summary Towards the end of 2012, DuraSpace organized a series of phone calls with the DSpace community. Sponsors, DCAT members, committers, and service providers participated in one of five meetings scheduled to survey current community perceptions ... [More] of DSpace. Altogether approximately 53 people joined in on the calls, representing 32 organizations. Participants responded to questions such as whether DSpace was currently meeting the needs of their organization, in what ways was it being used, what were the biggest challenges encountered, and what changes or enhancements were most requested. This paper presents the findings from those discussions. Overall, many participants expressed satisfaction with DSpace's abilities to meet the basic institutional repository needs of their organization.  Many institutions had made a long-term investment in the software and were for the most part satisfied with it.  In particular, a number of people were excited about new developments with DSpace.  Recent releases have yielded a dramatic increase in developer contributions and new features described by some as a "DSpace Renaissance".  (One conjecture was that the recent move of the codebase to Github, a popular web-based hosting system for revision control, made it more convenient for developers to access and work on code.)  Several people mentioned that DSpace has been a good fit for new initiatives in support of open access. Speakers expressed a number of challenges as their organization's needs have grown over the years:  As digital preservation has become a priority, several people wished that DSpace could provide more support in that area.  Similarly, a few participants wanted better support for author identity and profiles.  One area of criticism was DSpace's front-end tools and the limitations of the out-of-the-box user interface.  Additionally, growing needs in the area of research data management led some people to question whether DSpace was "the right tool" for new requirements in this space. Another area where participants wished for improvements was scalability. Larger institutions sometimes experience performance issues related to large amounts of content or frequent access.  Others expressed a wish for more and better statistical reporting in future releases.  Still others agreed that improved metadata support would be highly valued. A number of common areas of interest were noted.  Several institutions are interested in the Hydra framework as a possible platform for DSpace (From the Hydra website at http://projecthydra.org:  Hydra is an ecosystem of components that lets institutions deploy robust and durable digital repositories (the body) supporting multiple “heads”: fully-featured digital asset management applications and tailored workflows.  Its principle platforms are the Fedora Commons repository software, Solr, Ruby on Rails and Blacklight). Islandora, the repository platform integrating Fedora with a Drupal front end (http://islandora.ca/), came up as a framework to explore, as well.  Some were interested in DuraCloud integration (https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/SzD7AQ) and others in the new DSpaceCloud offering tendered by DuraSpace (http://dspacecloud.org/).  There was notable interest in a variety of application integration scenarios, including DSpace with BibApp (http://bibapp.org/) and DSpace with VIVO (vivoweb.org). In general, the consensus was that DSpace should not try to "do it all."  Instead, the platform should become more modular, supporting plug-ins rather than becoming bloated with new functions out of the box.  To this end, there was considerable interest in a stable REST API for DSpace that would provide a "repository abstraction level" for external tools to integrate with and build from. Finally, several people expressed the view that the community would strongly benefit from increased collaboration among institutions, rather than individuals acting alone on enhancements that were of shared interest. Along similar lines was an expression of interest in better integration of functional and technology staff. At the conclusion of each session, DuraSpace promised to summarize the overall findings and report back to the community. The discussions revealed a number of potential initiatives, some of which would require substantial development effort. DuraSpace will convene new meetings early in the year with institutions that would like to pursue next steps for meeting the needs expressed during the "DSpace Futures" discussions.   The following points represent specific comments that amplify the summary of observations: Overall Many participants expressed satisfaction with DSpace at its current level of development.  Quite a few users in the community at large have not felt a need  to keep up to date with new DSpace releases.  Others would like to "push the envelope" when it comes to DSpace use cases and are interested in seeing more improvements that increase functionality.  Those for whom DSpace does not satisfy a full range of needs are now running multiple applications (e.g.,DSpace and Fedora) and some wish one repository application could satisfy all their use cases.  On the other hand, the thought was expressed that using multiple "best of breed" applications for varied purposes might be an optimal approach--for example, video storage applications optimized for streaming or art images for sophisticated display. Open Access While some users felt DSpace to be a good fit for meeting open access mandates, others wished for more granular permissions. Their point of view is that while an open access policy is fine for faculty content, it would also be nice to provide more granular embargo options for materials that need it. (In fact, DSpace 3.0 now offers more advanced embargo options which may meet these needs.) One of the drivers requiring this additional flexibility is the mandate to accommodate copyright demands. Digital Preservation While the key DSpace use cases are discovery and open access, many users are now focused on digital preservation.  While DSpace does offer "hooks" for preservation, some think that this is still an underdeveloped area that could use more attention. Generally, they believe that, while much interest is directed towards digital preservation, media, data, and digital collections, DSpace is not always well tailored for this work.  Some institutions do intentionally maintain separate applications for open access and preservation management, with preservation copies kept on a separate server. (It was noted that the methods for backing up DSpace to DuraCloud do now offer preservation options: https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/SzD7AQ.) User Interface A common perception is that the DSpace user interface (UI) is still difficult to customize.  In addition, some feel that the UI looks dated, and that a more modern-looking interface would improve usability and would appeal more to researchers and other new users.  Some related observations: • The awkwardness of the UI tools don't permit agile development • Branding and minor customizations should be easier to accomplish • Accommodating use cases for special collections, audio, and visual materials requires easy-to-use tools and user interfaces.  DSpace should be more competitive in its support for new UI development • DSpace needs improved administrative tools to take the burden off of developers and to provide functions for managing things like multimedia streaming and downloading. Data Management The widespread strategic interest in data management is leading many to consider how DSpace can be better positioned to meet the related needs.  Recent additions in version 3.0–for example, contributions for item versioning and and expanded use of Solr's capabilities to present data in new and different ways–have been driven by these issues.  Some concerns: • Research data management requires that the repository be less a catalog and more a central data store that can be shared, with more active input and output • DSpace can be a bottleneck for ingest of large amounts of research data.  Some organizations are using DSpace as a "proxy" for where the data is actually h, substituting services like Box for the storage • Some see the need for a more distributed environment to store large amounts of data.  This suggests a need for multiple background repositories or a "distributed DSpace" • There is a growing interest in geospatial data and an associated need for associated metadata support in DSpace • Better journal article metadata is also needed. Integration and Related Platforms A number of institutions were interested in exploring possible integration with other software platforms in order to get increased flexibility and ease of development for their DSpace repository.  In particular, some schools are investigating the Hydra framework. Over the past few years, a growing number of institutions have joined a DuraSpace-supported Hydra consortium whose members have been working on local Hydra heads to address a variety of common problems. Thoughts about a "DSpace Hydra head" include a variety of approaches, one of which might be a newly written Ruby-on-Rails DSpace application layered on top of a Fedora repository.  Such an application, it is thought, could take advantage of Fedora's flexible object model and Hydra's rapid development front end tools to create future Hydra solutions for some of the new use cases mentioned, while minimizing the number of technology platforms deployed.   Another approach might entail a front-end development effort leveraging all or some of the Hydra front end tools on top of a conventional DSpace back end that would provide a stable REST API.  This second approach was brainstormed as "Hydra on DSpace" rather than "DSpace on Hydra". This kind of effort would provide more flexibility in the front end while maintaining DSpace back-end assets.   Yet another approach would combine the conventional DSpace user interface with a Fedora back end.  Of course, any of these approaches would require a significant, sustained development project. Islandora was also mentioned as a possible framework for a future DSpace repository application.  Participants were made aware of an upcoming offering from Discovery Garden, a DuraSpace service provider, that provides an Islandora institutional repository application along with optional migration services for DSpace users. Additionally, DuraSpace mentioned that we are currently assessing interest in DSpaceCloud, a hosted version of the DSpace repository aimed at organizations that prefer not to maintain a local implementation of DSpace (http://dspacecloud.org/). Some participants cited other applications used at their institution or of particular interest related to some of the issues mentioned above: • Luna Imaging for special collections and archival material (http://www.lunaimaging.com) • ArtStor for digital images (http://www.artstor.org/) • XTF for audio/video (http://xtf.cdlib.org/) • Fedora for digital library material, audio/video needs, collections (http://www.fedora-commons.org/) • Box for large datasets (http://box.com/) • BibApp for faculty/researcher profiles (http://bibapp.org) • VIVO for semantic web-compliant research discovery and sharing (http://vivoweb.org) Collaboration A couple of participants observed that the DSpace community could profit from increased sharing.  It was evident that topics and issues explored by one school were often of interest to others.  It was clear, as well, that research in these areas was sometimes duplicated, and in some cases independent projects aimed at similar goals were undertaken.  There was no strong consensus as to how to best encourage increased collaboration, but there was agreement that we should collectively address the issue in the new year.  Additionally, a suggestion was made that developer community is as welcoming as possible to new people, both those who want to become more experienced developers and to non-developers who want to communicate directly with them. Conclusion The DSpace community is large and represents a wide range of requirements.  A large portion of the community seems satisfied with the ability of DSpace to meet its institutional repository needs.  Many in this group have made a long term investment in the software and remain fairly static in their use of the repository.  Many users do not see a need to upgrade the software to the most current release. Still others may wish to do so but do not have the resources to accomplish this work. Those who do upgrade are appreciative of the recent surge in developer contributions of new features. Another significant subset of the DSpace community would like to accelerate the rate of development.  Many in this group express common themes and wishes for improvements: • Increased flexibility in satisfying new use cases, minimizing the need to run multiple software platforms • Improved metadata support • More granular permissions, including support for more granular embargo options (Note: Some embargo enhancements were recently released in DSpace 3.0) • A focus on digital preservation and digital asset management • More agile development for user interfaces, more administrative user functions, more varied UIs to support new use cases • Support for research data management • Improved performance for larger institutions • Improved statistical reporting • More integration with other open source software applications Several in this group of users have expressed interest in more ambitious development efforts: • A stable REST API for DSpace that would permit more flexible UI development (Note: Some third-party REST APIs are available) • Exploration of the Hydra platform for possible reworking of the DSpace front- and/or back-ends • Integration with a number of third party open source applications. Some of these potential initiatives would require substantial development effort.   DuraSpace will convene new meetings early in the year with institutions that would like to pursue next steps for meeting the needs expressed during the DSpace Futures discussions.   Acknowledgements DuraSpace would like to thank the following organizations for participating in the DSpace Futures conversations: @mire BioMed Central/Open Repostiories Cambridge University Library Cornell University eIFL.net Enovation Solutions, Ltd George Mason University Georgetown University Harvard University Indiana University Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis Kansas State University MIT Ohio State University Rice University University of Tennessee University of Illinois University of Missouri University of Aukland University of Cambridge University of Delaware University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh University of Guelph University of Illinois University of Michigan University of Missouri University of Montreal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Toronto Virginia Tech York University [Less]

From Heather Morrison, Simon Frasier University Vancouver, BC  2012 was yet another awesome year for open access growth. To illustrate just how far we've come: a BASE search of over 2,400 repositories now searches over 40 million documents. The DOAJ ... [More] article search is inching up to the 1 million article mark, demonstrating that the growth in gold OA is not just in OA journals, but more importantly, in articles published in open access journals. The numbers: Directory of Open Access Journals 8,519 journals 2012 growth: 1,147 journals (3 journals / day) # articles searchable at article level: 955,720 2012 growth in searchable articles: 234,449 (642 articles / day) Directory of Open Access Books 1,259 academic peer-reviewed books from 35 publishers new in 2012 Electronic Journals Library 37,805 journals that can be read free of charge 2012 growth: 5,421 journals (15 journals / day) Highwire Press Free Online Articles 2,151,420 free articles 2012 growth: 41,640 articles (114 articles / day) OpenDOAR 2,253 repositories 2012 growth: 89 repositories (7 repositories / month) Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) 3,340 repositories 2012 growth: 730 repositories (2 repositories / day) Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) 40,506,905 documents 2012 growth: 6,908,293 documents (18,926 documents / day) PubMedCentral 2,600,000 articles (from PMC site) 2012 growth: 300,000 articles (from PMC site - update schedule not known so not sure about accuracy) 1,199 journals deposit all articles in PMC 2012 growth:  220 journals (.6 journals / day arXiv 809,849 e-prints 2012 growth: 83,886 e-prints (230 e-prints / day) E-LIS 14,242 documents as of Dec. 11 - cannot find # of documents on new site (E-LIS migrated to a new e-prints server in the past few days - looks great!) Social Sciences Research Network 372,772 full-text papers 2012 growth: 65,715 full-text papers (180 / day) Open Access Mandate Policies (from Registry of Open Access Material Archiving Policies) 353 open access policies (total) 2012 growth rate: 44 policies  (4 policies / month) Internet Archive 1,110,878 movies 110,448 concerts 1,474,756 recordings 3,781,142 texts (new in 2012) Details and further commentary: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/december-31-2012-dramatic-growth-of.html Thank you to everyone who is making this happen, and all the best to you & your OA endeavours in 2013. [Less]

From David Palmer, Associate University Librarian (Digital Strategies & Technical Services), The University of Hong Kong Libraries Hong Kong  CILEA and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) are pleased to announce the immediate availability for ... [More] download of the first alpha release of the DSpace CRIS module. https://github.com/CILEA/dspace-cris Publications are an important output of the research cycle. They allow communication between scholars, and measurement and decision support of research amongst research administrators. However there are many other equally important entities in research that need description and tracking, such as projects, grants, patents, organization units, researcher profiles (people), etc. Integrating and contextualizing all  of these entities along with publications, adds greater value to each individual piece, in terms of visibility, discovery, and understanding of the total research picture. One name used for such integrations is Current Research Information System (CRIS). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Research_Information_System This DSpace addon enables the ingestion, storage, display and management of metadata & fulltext on these other research entities. This module  produces a smooth integration between native DSpace items (publications) and other CRIS entities. All entities (native DSpace items or new CRIS Entities) can be linked with each other using autocomplete/lookup functions in the submission edit phase and the inter-navigation in visualizations. This is the first public release. Richer versions with more features and functionality will appear soon. These are described in the DSpace CRIS  Roadmap page: https://github.com/CILEA/dspace-cris/wiki/Roadmap Most of these features are now in The HKU Scholars Hub. http://hub.hku.hk The current version works on a customized version of DSpace 1.8.2 JSPUI and can be installed by following the instructions provided here: https://github.com/CILEA/dspace-cris/wiki/Installation We expect to release a complete upgrade of the DSpace CRIS module to DSpace 3 in the coming months. Some of this code base will make its way into general DSpace releases, such as “Solr Discovery for JSPUI” in DSpace 3. However we envision that most of this work will be an optional addon, which DSpace developers can choose to implement, or not. In the spirit of open source, we hope that this DSpace CRIS module will receive wide adoption in the DSpace community. We hope that many will find useful and then build further upon this start. To enable this desired multilateral collaboration, we ask that you send any inquires directly to the dspace mailing lists (mainly dspace [email protected]). Up to now, this has been a collaboration between CILEA and HKU. The HKU side is supported by funding from the HKU Office of Knowledge Exchange and the University Libraries. [Less]