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Winchester, MA  We at DuraSpace wish you—our global community of sponsors, committers, collaborators, colleagues and friends—a joyous holiday season. DuraSpace has had a great year working closely with our community to accomplish much more ... [More] together than any single institution could have achieved on its own.  It is the power of this successful collaboration that gives the work of DuraSpace meaning. May 2013 bring renewed innovation, fellowship and success in all of our endeavors. Whether providing: Strategic leadership of DSpace and Fedora including new releases and community growth to more than 1,500 repositories worldwide; New programs in community outreach and education that featured four 2012 Hot Topics community web seminar series and the E-Science Institute; Innovative solutions for durable access to your digital content in DuraCloud; Advocacy on behalf of our community as part of national and international initiatives; DuraSpace is grateful to have shared a very productive year with you. Here is a look back at some highlights: Thanks to our community we raised $417,750 in this year's campaign, with $223,750 coming from the DSpace community, $173,000  from the Fedora community and $21,000 from institutions who do not use either DSpace or Fedora, but who recognize the critical role DuraSpace has in helping to meet the challenge of preserving and providing access to our collective digital heritage (http://duraspace.org/thank-you-our-duraspace-community-supporters-0). The release of Fedora 3.5, the robust framework for building digital repositories, focuses on "under the hood" changes to improve Fedora's ability to be integrated and tested as part of larger repository systems (http://duraspace.org/now-available-fedora-35) The release of DSpace 3.0 provides users with a rich set of mix and match community-developed features and services to further engage and support DSpace repositories worldwide (http://duraspace.org/now-available-rich-features-and-services-dspace-30). The Fedora Futures group came together to undertake a 2-3 year project to develop the next generation of Fedora Repository software (http://duraspace.org/fedora-futures-kicks-cni). Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series presented strategic issues by matching community experts with current topics of interest in professionally-produced web seminar series (http://duraspace.org/hot-topics). The E-Science Institute was hosted by DuraSpace for the first time in the fall of 2012. The hands-on online and in-person course helps academic research libraries match their strengths and natural abilities to all aspects of support for institutional research and data preservation (http://duraspace.org/duraspace-cni-fall-member-meeting). Moving forward with innovative solutions for durable access, DuraCloud, an open source SaaS which runs on cloud infrastructure, now holds 4.8 million files totaling thirty-one terabytes of data in DuraCloud. In 2012 there were six new releases of the DuraCloud open source software including eleven new major features that included the SanDiego Super Computer Cloud integration and automated health checking (http://duraspace.org/duracloud-one-year-later-one-year-better). New features and pricing for simple and cost effective preservation and archiving in the cloud (http://duraspace.org/new-duracloud-digital-archiving-and-preservation-services) DuraCloud is now part of the Net+ provider offering of Internet2 (http://duraspace.org/duraspace-offers-duracloud-access-internet2-members). DuraSpace helped to coordinate and presented at the successful Open Repositories Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland with more than 460 attendees from 40 countries (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/morris/09morris.html). DuraSpace highlights "splendid stuff" in DSpace and Fedora repositories in celebration of Open Access Week 2012 with "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" vignettes (http://duraspace.org/taxonomy/term/23). DuraSpace is part of twelve current partners that make up the the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) "Core implementation team". APTrust is a consortium of academic institutions committed to the creation and management of academic and research content for multiple institutions (http://duraspace.org/duraspace-cni-fall-member-meeting). DuraSpace is providing technical leadership and participation in the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) project (http://duraspace.org/podcast-available-c-lynch-j-hilton-digital-preservation-network-dpn). As a member of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) DuraSpace works with more than 100 government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to preserve our nation's digital resources for the benefit of present and future generations (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/).  All the best, The DuraSpace Team   [Less]

From Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator,  CNI Washington, DC  Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change by Lynne O'Brien of Duke University, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting ... [More] (http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2012/), is now available on CNI's two video channels:  Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/55947847 YouTube:  http://youtu.be/UbK0i4mhpWU Since announcing a partnership with Coursera in July 2012, Duke has launched two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and has eight more in development. Spanning humanities, social sciences and science topics, these courses have over 320,000 enrollments as of October 2012. Duke’s goals in experimenting with MOOCs are to drive teaching innovation in both campus-based and online courses, to extend Duke’s commitment to knowledge in service to society, and to expand Duke’s reach and reputation in a global environment. In this presentation, O'Brien describes how the Coursera partnership has shaped campus discussions about higher education and teaching, and she discusses the impact of MOOCs on library planning and academic technology support. O'Brien also explores the rapidly evolving format of MOOC courses and considers what the implications may be for campus-based courses in the near future. More videos of other sessions from the fall 2012 CNI meeting are forthcoming. All videos from CNI are available on CNI's video channels:  YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).    [Less]

Jyväskylä, Finland  Traditional music is often a grassroots map of the culture and heritage of which it is a part. Folk music can be informal, unpublished and passed from generation to generation as part of oral traditions. The unique University of ... [More] Jyväskylä Finnish Folk Tunes collection, part of the Jyväskylä University Digital Archive powered by DSpace, consists of about 9000 folk tune transcriptions that were published between the years 1898-1933, before recording technology was available.  Most of these transcriptions with notation, key, meter, place of collection, lyrics, and collector are freely available online as the Digital Archive of Finnish Folk Tunes (http://esavelmat.jyu.fi/index_en.html). The collection consists of five main subcollections: 1) Spiritual Folk Songs, 2) Folk songs, 3) Folk dances, 4) Rune Songs, 5) Kantele- ja jouhikko Tunes. The Finnish Folk Tunes collection is musically comprehensive and thoroughly documented. It is nationally important, but will be of interest to international music lovers and folklore researchers. Explore the Finnish Folk Tunes collection: https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/27311   [Less]

The new release of DSpace 3.0 provides users with a rich set of mix and match community-developed features and services to further engage and support DSpace repositories worldwide. Each feature is designed to be turned on or off to ensure that your ... [More] DSpace is configured in the way that works best for your institution. The re-written Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interface features increased performance and now includes full Driver and Open-AIRE compatibility. Item Level Versioning, which is disabled by default, allows you to retain a history of all changes to items. Discovery Search now features snippets and hit highlighting in search results to make it simple for users to quickly locate repository resources. The DSpace Statistcs engine (based on Solr) includes workflow and search statistics to go along with existing usage statistics.  DSpace batch import now supports importing metadata from a variety of standard bibliographic formats, including Endnote, BibTeX, RIS and CSV.  You may now limit access to files and/or metadata to specific groups of users over a period of time with Advanced Embargo Settings. DSpace 3.0 also contains a beta version of a Mobile Theme for XMLUI using HTML5, JS and JQuery Mobile. As user touch points and channels to digital resources in repositories continue to fragment, this innovative feature offers DSpace repository managers an interface for smartphones and tablets that will support development of mobile applications and mobile sites.  Download DSpace 3.0: • SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/
 • GitHub: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/  (see the "dspace-3.0" tag)   DSpace 3.0 Release Notes: • DSpace Release 3.0 Notes   Give DSpace 3.0 a try here: • http://demo.dspace.org/   DSPACE 3.0 FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS • Completely rewritten OAI-PMH interface • Improvements to Solr-based Statistics • Batch import for bibliographic formats  • Controlled Vocabulary support for XMLUI • Google Analytics support for JSPUI • More secure password storage • Enhancements to Discovery Search & Browse  • Item Level Versioning for XMLUI • Advanced Embargo options for XMLUI  • Mobile Theme for XMLUI (beta) • Type-based submissions (show or hide submission fields based on type of content) • ElasticSearch-based Usage Statistics (alternative to Solr Statistics) • Improvements to LDAP authentication   3.0 DOCUMENTATION The DSpace 3.0 documentation is available online at:  https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/ A PDF copy of the documentation is still distributed with the software.   In addition, it can also be downloaded from:  http://www.dspace.org/latest-release/ 3.0 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The DSpace application would not exist without the hard work and support of the community. Thank you to the many developers who have worked very hard to deliver all the new features and improvements. Also thanks to the users who provided input and feedback on the development, as well those who participated in the testathons. A detailed listing of all known people/institutions who contributed directly to DSpace 3.0 is available in the Preface of the DSpace Documentation: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Preface. ABOUT THE DURASPACE ORGANIZATION DuraSpace is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2009 when the Fedora Commons organization and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source repository software, joined to pursue a common mission to preserve our shared scholarly, scientific and cultural record. The DuraSpace community includes more than 1,500 worldwide institutions that use DSpace or Fedora open source repository software to provide durable access to documents, imagery and media. More information at DuraSpace.org. [Less]

Winchester, MA  Heavy fog over Washington caused several attendees to miss the start of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall Member Meeting held on December 10-11, 2012. Clifford Lynch, CNI Executive Director, began with an overview ... [More] of strategic CNI activities in which he reminded the audience that "Scholarly practice does not stand still". This set the stage for several DuraSpace-related presentations that focused on programs, software and services that support access to and preservation of resources for scholarship.    E-Science Institute: An Approach to the Challenge of Digital Research http://www.cni.org/pbs/e-science-institute/   Mackenzie Smith, University of California, Davis, explained that the ARL/DLF/DuraSpace E-Science Institute (ESI) was designed as a hands-on course to help academic research libraries match their strengths and natural abilities to all aspects of the data lifecycle. The terms "E-Science and E-Research" were commingled in this approach where participants did research on their campuses to come up with strategic agendas for their institutions. Taking a wide view of the data lifecyle offered participants a variety of ways to think about moving towards support for research and data preservation.   Part of the issue for libraries is that physical spaces need to be re-envisioned to maximize access to research data for faculty and students with visualization tools such as "walls and caves". Cross-pollination activities such as librarians doing ontology creation for researchers is another non-traditional way to consider expanding library services in support of E-Science.   Smith pointed out that support for E-Science is a logical part of libraries' traditional mission: collecting, preserving and making information available for scholars. The E-Science Institute provides methods and tools to complete the analysis and planning required to fit institutional abilities with aspects of support for the data lifecycle.   ESI was first offered in 2011 because demand for help in this area from research libraries had grown. The fall 2012 offering of the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute was conducted online and in-person with a face-to-face capstone event that concluded on Dec 13 in Arlington, Virgina. Early feedback from this fall's course has been very positive as the course continues to be in demand. To sign up to receive information about future offerings, visit: http://duraspace.org/esi-contact-form.   Many thanks to the E-Science Faculty and Guest Faculty: Jake Carlson, Mike Furlough, Chris Shaffer, David Minor, Bill Michener and MacKenzie Smith for again designing and delivering this useful course. ---   Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-preservation/academic-preservation-trust/   Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia, explained that the APTrust is a critical piece of emerging preservation infrastructure because our data is in jeopardy. Lack of diversity in geographic regions where data is kept, unexpected weather events and even lagging political support can cause fragile scholarly resources to disappear. It is not in the commercial interest to preserve content leaving it up to higher education, and in particular libraries, to preserve resources for scholarship over the long-haul. That is why a consortium of academic institutions committed to the creation and management of academic and research content for multiple institutions came together to form the APTrust.   Twelve current partners make up the APTrust "Core implementation team" who agree that a successful effort will take more than storage solutions and technology. To make the APTrust sustainable community building, business planning and marketing will be part of the effort.   Andrew Woods, DuraSpace, offered answers to the provocative question, "What do you get from the APTrust"? In the context of ensuring that content survives into the future, APTrust partners have access to redundant copies of their content, the ability to leverage economies of scale, generate audit reports and access to an aggregated repository that will take advantage of DuraCloud technology for consortial work on top of the collection.   Woods, the APTrust technical architect, offered attendees a deep dive into the technical infrastructure. APTrust software will roll out in phases with an end-to-end data flow tie-in to DPN (Digital Preservation Network). How the data flow works:   • Local partner IRs are represented at the top layer in "3 flavors of repositories"   • Ingest packages and associated metadata are held in DuraCloud "Staging areas".   • When an ingest submission is complete and validated it then moves into a preservation space   Instant and ongoing bit checking along with the ability to store content with multiple providers will be available through DuraCloud.   The APTrust is looking for cost-effective disaster recovery, access services, long-term preservation, tools and best practices and hosting a portal on top of collections to enhance preservation strategies and opportunities for partners.   ---   Using the Cloud for Backup, Storage, and Archiving: Decision Factors, Experiences, and Use Cases Explored http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-preservation/cloud-backup-storage-archiving/   DuraCloud is a DuraSpace service that allows users to store, manage and archive data in the cloud. There are currently 4.8 million files and 31 terabytes of data in DuraCloud. Over the last year 6 versions of the DuraCloud open source software were released with 11 new major features that included SDSC integration and automated health checking. All features are rolled up into the open source code so that anyone may freely download a full version of DuraCloud software.   Geneva Henry, Rice University, uses DuraCloud as part of an overall digital preservation strategy at her institution. All DSpace repository contents are stored in DuraCloud including digitization masters.   Rice Univeristy was an early DuraCloud pilot institution. They found that they could easily store and manage faculty publications, digital projects, archives and special collections, theses and dissertations and more.    Before content is stored in DuraCloud files are packaged in archival information packages (AIPs). Capturing preservation metadata that reflects everything known about a record ensures resource provenance into the future. They are able to recreate their repository with what is stored in DuraCloud   The answers to many questions around digital preservation issues do not have single answers. Henry believes that it is critical to be part of, and contribute to ongoing experiments and new initiatives.   Holly Mercer, University of Tennessee, is using DuraCloud in the context of an overall digital preservation assessment focused on static collections.   They have established a production workflow that sends content to local storage, syncs to Amazon S3 and SDSC and finally is uploaded to DuraCloud. They have been pleased that DuraCloud maintains their institutional repository hierarchical structure.   Mark Leggott, UPEI, Islandora and Discovery Garden, oversees 100+ institutions who are using the Islandora software. UPEI was also a pilot DuraCloud institution. The focus of their work with DuraCloud has been to pursue integration with the Islandora framework. DuraCloud has been added to the Islandora stack aiming for a "single button disaster recovery" approach. They have five clients using Islandora and have built in "The Vault" to back-up and preserve users' content with DuraCloud.   The DuraCloud sync tool is running in continuous mode in the Islandora stack. Leggott is impressed with the quality of the software that DuraSpace creates and has found that if you have a corrupt file in Islandora you can use DuraCloud as a recovery mechanism.   They are encouraged by the addition of DuraCloud to I2 net plus services and feel that this infrastructure may help to reduce costs for cloud storage over time. For slides and recordings of CNI Fall Member Meeting 2012 presentations as they become available please check the web site: http://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/upcoming-meeting/fall-2012/   [Less]

Winchester, MA The DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce that Tyler Walters has accepted an appointment to the DuraSpace Board of Directors. Tyler Walters is the Dean of University Libraries, Virginia Tech. He was a 2008-2010 Fellow in the ... [More] Association of Research Libraries Research Libraries Leadership Fellows program. Walters has been involved in the repository software community for many years, hosting the 2009 International Conference on Open Repositories (OR) and serving on the OR Steering Committee. Walters currently serves on the Coalition of Networked Information Steering Committee, the National Information Standards Organization Board of Directors, and is an elected member of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Coordinating Committee (Library of Congress). Walters is a founding Board member of the Educopia Institute and its digital preservation organization, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and its library publishing community organization, the Library Publishing Coalition. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Digital Curation. Walters teaches a graduate course in the University of Arizona’s Digital Information Management program and is himself a PhD student at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He has presented at numerous conferences internationally, has published almost 30 articles and papers, and is a recipient of the Society of American Archivists' Ernst Posner Award for best article in the American Archivist. He is the lead author of the 2011 ARL report, "New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation." Walters stated “I’m very proud of DuraSpace and everything it has accomplished in its young existence. Managing and advancing the DSpace and Fedora repository platforms as well as developing new software tools such as DuraCloud is critically important to information service organizations who are offering repository services to their communities. I look forward to contributing to DuraSpace’s agenda and to the continued growth and vitality of the organization.” ABOUT DURASPACE DuraSpace is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to act on behalf of the community to create, communicate and gather feedback to ensure that DSpace and Fedora open source software meets the needs of the greatest number of stakeholders who are engaged in the preservation of our shared scholarly, scientific and cultural record. The DuraSpace community includes more than 1,500 worldwide institutions that use DSpace or Fedora open source repository software to provide durable access to documents, imagery and media. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud, a cloud-based service that is integrated with Amazon, RackSpace, and San Diego Supercomputer Cloud Services.  Users store and move content seamlessly between these providers and have access to a suite of preservation and archiving services that include health checking and auditing of content; automated file repair if corrupted content is detected; geographic distribution of content (located in more than one data center, and more than one provider if desirable); fine grained permissions for viewing, copying, sharing, uploading or downloading content and: enterprise and single user configurations. The DuraSpace team includes recognized leaders and experts in the management of digital information who work with an active and diverse international community committed to the durability of digital resources. For more information please visit: http://duraspace.org. [Less]

From OR2013 Program Co-Chairs Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, [email protected] and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, [email protected] This year’s Open Repositories Conference (OR2013) takes place in ... [More] Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12.   Registration is now open at http://or2013.net/registration - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can!    We invite you to contribute to the conference program.   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 will be linked from the conference web site (http://or2013.net/) and will be available for submissions in mid-December 2012.   Program Co-Chairs: Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, [email protected] Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, [email protected] [Less]

From Hardy Pottinger, University of Missouri On behalf of the DSpace developers, I would like to formally announce that DSpace 3.0 is now available! DSpace 3.0 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations: • ... [More] SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/ • GitHub: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/  (see the "dspace-3.0" tag) In addition, you are welcome to try out DSpace 3.0 on http://demo.dspace.org/ and continue to provide any early feedback you may have. DSpace 3.0 follows 1.8 in being a "time-based" release. The developers have managed to include some significant new features and numerous bug fixes. NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS   DSpace 3.0 is a huge release!  Here is a list of some of the many contributions...   • Completely rewritten OAI-PMH interface (now compatible with Driver and Open-AIRE) • Improvements to Solr-based Statistics (including Workflow & Search Query Statistics) • Batch import for bibliographic formats (e.g. EndNote, BibTeX, RIS, TSV, CSV) • Controlled Vocabulary support for XMLUI • Google Analytics support for JSPUI • More secure password storage • Enhancements to Discovery Search & Browse (including hit highlighting, search snippets, related items, and JSPUI support) • Item Level Versioning for XMLUI • Advanced Embargo options for XMLUI (time based restrictions on bitstreams and metadata) • Mobile Theme for XMLUI (beta) • Type-based submissions (show or hide submission fields based on type of content) • ElasticSearch-based Usage Statistics (alternative to Solr Statistics) • Improvements to LDAP authentication   For much more information on each of these features, please visit our 3.0 Release Notes:  https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+3.0+Notes   3.0 DOCUMENTATION   The DSpace 3.0 documentation is available online at:  https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/   A PDF copy of the documentation is still distributed with the software.   In addition, it can also be downloaded from:  http://www.dspace.org/latest-release/   3.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS   The DSpace application would not exist without the hard work and support of the community. Thank you to the many developers who have worked very hard to deliver all the new features and improvements. Also thanks to the users who provided input and feedback on the development, as well those who participated in the testathons. Additionally I would like to thank Tim Donohue of DuraSpace for ensuring that DSpace 3.0 went off without a hitch.    A detailed listing of all known people/institutions who contributed directly to DSpace 3.0 is available in the Preface of the DSpace Documentation:https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Preface  (If you contributed and were accidentally not listed, please let us know so that we can correct it!)    For DSpace 3.0, we had a total of 41 individuals contribute code, bug reports, and bug fixes.  Of those 41 individuals, a surprising 23 of them were brand new contributors!  A big thanks goes out to everyone who participated for the first time.  We hope you'll continue to be a valuable addition to the DSpace community for the next release and beyond!   MORE INFORMATION   More information on this release is also available in the DSpace 3.0 Release Notes at:  https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+3.0+Notes   As always, we are happy to hear back from the community about DSpace -- please let us know what you think of 3.0!      [Less]

Winchester, MA  The 2012 DuraCloud webinars are now available for you to browse on the DuraCloud YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/duracloudvideos. Join almost 2,300 viewers who have tuned in to learn about a wide range of useful ... [More] DuraCloud-related topics that include: • An Introduction to DuraCloud • A Technical Overview of DuraCloud • Using DuraCloud for Archiving and Preservation • Backup and Restore of DSpace via DuraCloud • Integrating DSpace with DuraCloud • Integrating Fedora with DuraCloud • Permissions and Access Controls • Media Streaming • Summer School - Open Question/Answer Session • Ways DuraCloud Can Help You! • How DuraCloud is Different From Amazon • The DuraCloud Integration with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Cloud • How to Upload Content to DuraCloud Add the DuraCloud YouTube channel to your playlist to stay informed when topics are added. [Less]

Winchester, MA  Each year the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall Membership meeting provides library and information technology institutional leaders with a forum for learning about emerging technologies, content, and applications meant ... [More] to encourage collaborations across CNI member organizations. This year's meeting will be held in Washington, DC on Dec. 10-11 where DuraSpace projects and collaborative initiatives will be featured among more than 40 Project Briefing sessions. The full schedule will be posted here when it is finalized: http://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/upcoming-meeting/fall-2012/f12-schedule/.   • The Future of Fedora Edwin Shin, MediaShelf, Tom Cramer, Stanford University, Matthias Razum, FIZ Karlsruhe, Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace, Thornton Staples, Smithsonian Institution and Mark Leggott, DiscoveryGarden will explain a new initiative aimed at positioning Fedora—the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture software with a global community of users—to meet emerging needs for scaling, performance and ability to integrate into wider ecosystems.    As research data management, linked data, and ease of incorporation into frameworks like eSciDoc, Hydra, Islandora and microservice-based architectures have emerged as key community concerns, a small set of activist Fedora users came together with DuraSpace to make sure that Fedora survives and thrives in the face of these challenges. The "Fedora Futures" strategy aims to dramatically increase the project's velocity and level of community investment to address these challenges and expand Fedora into new markets over the next three years. Session attendees will learn about the planned improvements in this presentation and panel discussion, and have the opportunity to give input on the needs and direction for the project.   The group will host an open meeting immediately following CNI at 3:30pm on Tuesday, December 11 to answer questions and continue discussion about the Fedora Futures project.   ---   • Using the Cloud for Backup, Storage, and Archiving: Decision Factors, Experiences, and use Cases Explored Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace, will lead a panel of representatives from three organizations who have made the decision to store, manage, and archive content in the cloud by utilizing the DuraCloud service over the past year. These organizations weighed the advantages, disadvantages, and risks of using the cloud versus building and supporting a local solution.    Geneva Henry, Rice University, will discuss key factors that supported the decision to adopt DuraCloud as part of an overall preservation strategy. She will review decision factors which included the ease of working with the DSpace platform for ingesting content, as well as the ability to have a diversified distributed storage environment with SDSC and Amazon working seamlessly on the backend for replicated storage and bit-sum checking.   Holly Mercer, University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries engaged two consultants to perform a “readiness assessment” in 2011 that recommended exploring outsourced options for preservation and archiving. In 2012, the University of Tennessee adopted DuraCloud as one component of their digital preservation plan specifically because of the DuraCloud capabilities for replication, geographic distribution, and "health checks."    Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island will explain how the "Vault" module for Islandora provides seamless application-level integration of DuraCloud with a Fedora-backed repository.    Panelists will further discuss decision factors that were assessed when determining whether to use cloud technologies at their institutions, their experiences using DuraCloud, and how DuraCloud has become a part of their preservation strategy.   ---   • Academic Preservation Trust Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia and Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace will give an overview of the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) which is a consortium of academic institutions committed to the creation and management of academic and research content for multiple institutions. They will review milestones and how to get involved in this presentation and panel discussion.   As a member of APTrust, the University of Virginia in partnership with DuraSpace is implementing a cloud-based repository service to aggregate curated content from consortium institutions upon which rich access services may be built. The implementation will further provide long term preservation for selected content through the implementation of a repository within the Digital Preservation Network (DPN).   The aggregate repository is being implemented to collect many forms of content, offer utility to support administrative and simple access, augment individual institution preservation strategies as well as provide a firm foundation for exploring future access services.  The consortium believes they can achieve these goals more fully together than they can alone.   ---   • E-Science Institute: An Approach to the Challenge of Digital Research For this presentation MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis Gary Strong, University of California, Los Angeles, and Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace will review the challenges facing universities and libraries in dealing with digital research and especially data, the E-Science Institute approach of Strategic Agendas, a case study from the Institute's first cohort (UCLA), and an overview of the current Institute managed by DuraSpace to help research libraries develop strategic agendas for e-research support, with a sciences focus. The Institute has been improved based on feedback from initial sessions held in 2011, and is poised to help all types of libraries—large academic, college, corporate, public, government—develop approaches to digital research support.    The DuraSpace organization is partnering with DLF to continue the Institute into the future and will hold a 2012 concluding E-Science Institute event immediately following the CNI meeting.  Please join us at CNI!  [Less]