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Are you intrigued by DSpaceDirect? Find out how your institution can benefit from the low-cost and full DSpace repository features of the new DSpaceDirect hosted repository solution by signing up for “DSpaceDirect Details”. This bi-weekly series of ... [More] articles relates key features of the only low-cost hosted repository solution for discovery, access, and archiving, to common institutional repository requirements. DSpaceDirect is a managed DSpace repository service offered by the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization. Sign up here. Sample articles: • DSpaceDirect Details: Fast Repository Start-up • DSpaceDirect Details: You-pick Features That Communicate Your Identity Built on DSpace, the most widely-used repository application in the world with more than 1,500 installed instances, DSpaceDirect was inspired by the idea that the past creates the future as each generation builds knowledge on the scholarship that came before. DSpaceDirect is a hosted DSpace repository service that allows institutions of any size to afford to keep their digital content safe and accessible over time. Small institutions are able to get a repository up and running right away that can be made available to patrons as well as to new users worldwide. Users say that the DSpaceDirect easy start-up accelerates discussions about digital content stewardship and preservation best practices at their institutions. • DSpaceDirect information: http://dspacedirect.org/benefits • DSpaceDirect pricing page: http://dspacedirect.org/pricing • Get a DSpaceDirect quote: http://dspacedirect.org/inquiry     [Less]

Are you intrigued by DSpaceDirect? Find out how your institution can benefit from the low-cost and full DSpace repository features of the new DSpaceDirect hosted repository solution by signing up for “DSpaceDirect Details”. This bi-weekly series of ... [More] articles relates key features of the only low-cost hosted repository solution for discovery, access, and archiving, to common institutional repository requirements. DSpaceDirect is a managed DSpace repository service offered by the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization. Sign up here. Sample articles: • DSpaceDirect Details: Fast Repository Start-up • DSpaceDirect Details: You-pick Features That Communicate Your Identity Built on DSpace, the most widely-used repository application in the world with more than 1,500 installed instances, DSpaceDirect was inspired by the idea that the past creates the future as each generation builds knowledge on the scholarship that came before. DSpaceDirect is a hosted DSpace repository service that allows institutions of any size to afford to keep their digital content safe and accessible over time. Small institutions are able to get a repository up and running right away that can be made available to patrons as well as to new users worldwide. Users say that the DSpaceDirect easy start-up accelerates discussions about digital content stewardship and preservation best practices at their institutions. • DSpaceDirect information: http://dspacedirect.org/benefits • DSpaceDirect pricing page: http://dspacedirect.org/pricing • Get a DSpaceDirect quote: http://dspacedirect.org/inquiry     [Less]

Winchester, MA  Welcome two new DuraSpace services customers University of Scranton, Southwestern University, and Northern Kentucky University. The University of Scranton joins the list of DuraCloud service users while Southwestern University and ... [More] Northern Kentucky University are some of the earliest customers to sign up for DSpaceDirect. Welcome to each of you! For those interested in more information about either service from DuraSpace, please visit: DuraCloud.org for more information; or DSpaceDirect.org for further details; or email Carissa Smith, Product Manager at [email protected]. [Less]

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace 2014 Sponsorship Summit took place at the Cosmos Club, founded in 1878, in Washington, DC March 11 and 12. The historic venue provided a good setting to explore how open source governance and funding models could ... [More] ensure the future of DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects and communities. Introduction The DuraSpace 2014 Sponsor Summit was focused on providing stakeholders with details about 2013 accomplishments and key strategic organizational priorities for 2014. DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton and board president Paul Courant opened the 2014 DuraSpace Sponsor Summit meeting with a review of the full agenda and introductions to members of the DuraSpace board who were in attendance. Meeting documentation including session notes and slides can be found here. Courant applauded DuraSpace for their efforts over the past two years to bring in diversified revenue streams to support and sustain the organization beyond grant funding. Courant also noted much effort was spent in the last year to expand the Board to from six to eleven new board members. One significant change was to appoint one member of each steering group to the board. This would provide better representation of the project interests. Kimpton gave an update on key strategic work for 2014 that includes "building a sustainable business model for the organization". A large part of the meeting was devoted to discussion and feedback on a proposed membership model designed to connect direct project governance with levels of membership as a way to deepen community engagement and commitment. DuraSpace revenue streams were further diversified in 2013 with a 70% increase in sponsorship support. This increase came as the DSpace and Fedora communities recognized that the code base was more than ten years old and in need of modernization. Redesigning Fedora’s proven architecture to serve the community for the next 5-10 years is already far along with the development of Fedora 4, which is scheduled for a beta release at OR2014. Fedora fundraising took off in 2013 as excitement about the redesign of the product was leveraged by steering group leadership. Kimpton noted that 188 DSpace and 21 Fedora repositories were added in 2013 to illustrate that global use of these platforms continues to increase. Currently there are more than 1800 DSpace and Fedora installations worldwide. A key issue in 2014 will be to engage with the broader community of global users, particularly in developing countries rapidly adopting DSpace. Establishing project steering groups with direct oversight of the Fedora, DSpace and VIVO projects in 2013 was a key accomplishment. The steering groups are at different stages of development, but the general direction is to tightly engage stakeholders by connecting fundraising and project governance to direct community participation in project leadership. Kimpton also noted successes in 2013 for DuraSpace services. The recent launch of DSpaceDirect was aimed at smaller institutions in need of simple and cost-effective preservation and archiving of their content. The integration of DuraCloud with Archive-It paves the way for computer services that could be run on arc files in the cloud providing a research opportunity for ongoing analysis. The recent Net Plus Internet2 partnership with general adoption and availability will expand connections with university CIOs. The DuraCloud and Chronopolis integration will enable a Digital Preservation Network (DPN) node at the University of San Diego. Introduction to the New DuraSpace Membership Model Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace Chief Strategy Officer, reviewed the evolving membership model for 2014 while reminding attendees that the next day’s sessions would be focused on deep discussion and gathering feedback on this proposal. "We need to bring more members to our organization," he said, “Membership makes more sense in different cultural contexts than sponsorship does and university library budgets often allow for memberships as opposed to sponsorships.” The membership concept is more consistent with Duraspace’s evolving governance models because it "affords members more of a say in the projects". These are some of the reasons that led DuraSpace to propose a formal governance structure around a membership model. “Because we don't want to rock the boat with current sponsors we have kept the same levels and have instituted a package of benefits at each of level of membership that are meant to entice folks to come in at higher levels,” Markow explained. The key reason to "join" DuraSpace goes beyond benefits–it is in the mutual interest of both the DuraSpace organization and stakeholders for them to participate in sustaining the projects. Fedora, DSpace and VIVO updates from project Steering Group members followed. Fedora Update: Community; Software; Sustainability Rob Cartolano, Chair of the Fedora steering group and Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services for Columbia University Libraries/Information Services,  began by clearing up any lingering identity issues around the current work on Fedora 4. In the early days of organizing interest around re-architecting Fedora the effort was named Fedora Futures. Cartolano said, " Fedora Futures = Fedora". They are now one and the same. “Reimagining Fedora” began because stakeholder institutions came together in 2012 to address the fact that Fedora was not being developed sufficiently to meet current institutional needs. DuraSpace was also not collecting enough Fedora project sponsorship revenue to sustain adequate development. There are more than 300+ Fedora implementations and only 41 Fedora Sponsors. Project goals include sustaining a process for developing software and building community in the near and long-term. A beta release of Fedora 4 is due out this summer at the Open Repositories Conference, June 9-13. The team is engaged in a dynamic, iterative development process who are committed to Feodra 4 as a transformational product. Eddie Shin began work towards a new Fedora with rapid development phases called "sprints" that continue today under the technical leadership of Andrew Woods (12 sprints have been completed towards the release of Fedora 4). The development process has been open and priorities have been selected by the community and is a transparent process. He reminded the audience that by contributing code, use cases and resources the process gets better. Fedora 4 development is great example of successful teamwork. Cartolano wondered about what the "steady state" for building a well-maintained and vibrant open source software platform would look like over the long term. The Fedora 4 project is initially funded for three years. To keep the vibrant community process alive the team is beginning to discuss options for addressing future sustainability. Cartolano sees areas for growth and innovations.There is interest in exploring a Fedora and VIVO collaboration. Dean Kraft suggested in comments that the Linked Data for Libraries project will bring VIVO closer to where DSPace and Fedora "live". DSpace Update: A Year in the Life of DSpace Stuart Lewis, DSpace Steering Group and Deputy Director of Library and University Collections and Head of Research and Learning Services at University of Edinburgh, gave a presentation focused on the unique DSpace process that interweaves software development with a diverse global community. Currently the DSpace community is focusing on sustainability and governance issues as they relate to an emerging common vision. After twelve years DSpace continues to evolve with 59 developers from many countries. Each release of DSpace offers the community new features gathered from many contributors. Using GitHub unlocked code contributions from a large number of new committers. Installations of DSpace continue to grow–currently to almost 1600 users from all over the world. Only 1/5 of the DSpace installations are in North America where most DSpace sponsorship revenue is collected. Developing strategies for increasing DSpace sponsorship contributions outside of North America is a key task for the newly-formed DSpace steering group. Recently the DSpace community was asked to participate in a DSpace Vision survey to come up with a unified vision for how DSpace might develop in the future. Early ideas include: 1. A focus on modern IR use case 2. Software should be lean and agile 3. Core software functions should be extendable 4. Should be configurable to interoperate and support digital scholarship as it evolves 5. Low-cost hosted solutions and deployments should be encouraged A discussion of the community vision survey results were scheduled for the following day. Next steps include developing a roadmap based on a common vision, engaging the community, and development/deployment. VIVO Update: Software–Data–Standards (Ontology)–One Community Dean Krafft, VIVO steering group and Chief Technology Strategist for Cornell University Library, offered a simple VIVO explanation. VIVO connects scientists and scholars with and through their research and scholarship and is the only standard way to exchange information about research and researchers across diverse institutions. VIVO software is built on VITRO and has had 8 releases in 4 years. VIVO takes complex inputs from multiple institutions and normalizes them to make sense of authority and connections among resources and people. Morning sessions concluded with table break-out discussions focused on discussing what have you heard, what concerns you, what inspires you, and what do you have questions about? Responses were positive with regard to news about increased DuraSpace revenues and initial feedback regarding the change from “sponsorship” to “membership” and growing excitement about deep community engagement in the process of developing Fedora 4. Participants saw opportunities for leveraging the “portfolio” of Fedora products and services with regard to the use of common languages, standards, and knowledge bases. More collaboration opportunities with DuraSpace were desired such as identifying and applying for grants. ---- Afternoon sessions included a review of national initiatives contributing to the evolving research and scholarship ecosystem. Introduction to "Research and Scholarship Ecosystem Evolution" James Hilton, DuraSpace Board and University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan opened his overview of the Research and Scholarship Ecosystem with a diagram of the ecosystem of scholarly digital content and the associated emerging software stack. He suggested that the diagram is not that exciting because most attendees had seen it previously. He explained that there will be no more 20K payments from stakeholder institutions for anything until how it all fits together is understood. He reviewed the stack and had added VIVO as part of supporting code base. Integration and interoperability are still on the table as unresolved connectivity issues. As a community Hilton suggests that we should be focused on broad infrastructure development, not on one-off baubles. "Resist the siren song of tight integrations to get to the shiny thing; look at it strategically for the long-haul," he said. The nature of how we use digital content in almost any context is that we take something and do something else with it. The days of faith-based assertions about the value and impact of this exchange are over. We need to back up assertions with data. Hilton advocates for loose coupling of technical components to make it possible to establish workflow exit strategies. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). He introduced the DPLA as a portal for discovery, a platform to build upon, and a strong public option. All DPLA collections are geocoded, content types are collected in content hubs that retain retain digital objects and holdings consist of normalized metadata. DPLA cultivates a peer-to-peer relationship with libraries in trying to gather content that represents "the whole range of human expression". Service hubs are like DPLAs related to their native geographic areas. He suggested that a pond (collection) > lake (local service hub) > ocean (DPLA content hub) metaphor represents the relationship between service hubs and DPLA content hubs. The DPLA is one year old and currently holds about 6 million items from 1200 contributing institutions. Content hubs have shown increases in use of the materials over the last year. DPLA provides stats on usage to partners. The DPLA goal is to partner with everyone. Coherance at Scale Committee Chuck Henry, DuraSpace Board member and president of CLIR, discussed the Committee on Coherence at Scale founded by CLIR and Vanderbilt University to foster strategic thinking about how to more rigorously manage the transition from analog to digital in higher education. There are several large-scale projects being built such as DPN and SHARE. Most facets of higher education interests are covered by one of these projects. Is it useful to look at infrastructure support for a coherent set of these projects. An Introduction to SHARE Elliot Shore, Executive Director of ARL, introduced SHARE, (the Shared Access Research Ecosystem) which is an initiative spearheaded by the higher education community. SHARE seeks to ensure that the outputs of scholarly research are preserved, discovered and built upon in a manner which facilitates and accelerates the research process.  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) have partnered to develop SHARE. Management of SHARE is overseen by a steering committee drawn from the leadership and membership of ARL, AAU and APLU. One of the first activities of SHARE is the creation of the SHARE Notification Service to make it substantially easier for all parties to manage and oversee the reporting of research results.  When complete, the Notification Service will notify any interested stakeholder – at no charge – of the release of research results.  It will also be possible to query the Notification Service.  “Release of research results” encompasses publication of articles, the dissemination of research data, and the posting of materials in repositories and data archives (SHARE project plan). Shore asked the audience, “How can we pull this off?” He said that college and university presidents are now hearing about large-scale digital initiatives (DPLA, DPN and others) as parts of a coherent system from many angles. All of these initiatives could be brought together by SHARE. The SHARE notification system will be looking at research release results initially. This system could live in DuraSpace or several places and it leverages the investments we have already made. Are there enough pieces out there now that we could begin to build this coherent world now? Digital content/scholarship has been around for about 20 years. SHARE is a system that is being built to work together and could be the glue that holds all of these infrastructure elements together. Digital Preservation Network (DPN) James Hilton concluded the overview of "Research and Scholarship Ecosystem Evolution" with a status report on the Digital Preservation Network (DPN). There are ongoing outreach efforts aimed at gathering resources and presenting plans to the Association of American Universities (AAU). The goal is to make sure that the college and university presidents show up to learn more about DPN because they believe in the mission to ensure that the complete scholarly record is preserved for future generations. DPN has one employee plus technical partners and one strategic partner–DuraSpace–who are  working towards developing "a digital preservation backbone for the academy." Hilton reminded the audience that preserving something "forever" is an untested construct. The technical deliverables reflect a focus on issues related to change over time that include scaling, “brightening” preserved content (making it accessible) is non-trivial, and the fact that the DPN system preserves whatever is deposited, but does not change it. A limited beta release of DPN will be available at the upcoming CNI member meeting. Summary of discussions from Day 2 Project Groups FEDORA Tom Cramer, Fedora steering group and Chief Technology Strategist and the Associate Director of Digital Library Systems and Services for the Stanford University Libraries, offered a summary of what was discussed during the project’s break-out session. It’s been 18 months since the revolution that began the community push towards re-architecting Fedora into Fedora 4. In one year Andrew Woods has come on board as the project’s technical lead and David Wilcox is now the Fedora product manager. Notable points in developing a deeply engaging community-driven software development process: Andrew Woods has said, "All Fedora 4 development is community-based, and all of the use cases are community-based" Collecting ongoing use cases from the community is critical Acceptance testing is key to developing a viable product We need more members The Spring 3.7.2 release which will be the last in the 3.0 series Fedora 4.0 beta will be out this summer The Fedora 4.0 production release will be out  in Fall of 2015 as an MVP "Launch and support greenfield Fedora 4 projects" will be the first implementation priority Maybe training is going for be required as an opportunity to get people exposed to Fedora Where does the rubber meet the road? There is agreement on many exciting and gratifying aspects of the Fedora 4 process: We love the community process The process has helped to “sell it locally” There are levels of engagement across the community Process is Fast and inclusive We love the new features especially the Triplestore and RDF Main concerns center around migration of Fedora 3 to Fedora 4. Interesting future directions may include a look into something like FedoraDirect (similar to DSpaceDirect), a VIVO collaboration and a continued focus on establishing governance and a membership model that works for the Fedora community. DSPACE Deborah Hanken Kurtz, DSpace Steering Group and Director of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) offered a summary of DSpace discussions. Membership and governance and concern about diversity especially those who can contribute code but not resources were key topics of conversation. Several good ideas for the future included brainstorming ways to reach out to DSpace users in Japan along with coming up with a lower level of membership that could include in-kind and low fees. Tim Donohue, DSpace tech lead, reviewed “How DSpace Works”. The DSpace Vision Group, DSpace Ambassadors, DCAT and committers all play a role making sure that the annual release of DSpace is both feature-rich and reflects community priorities. DSpace Vision Survey results showed that 60% of people who responded had migrated to 3.0 or higher and 20% of the respondent installations are from the US. Casting a wider net to get feedback from international DSpace users was mentioned as being a key factor in moving forward towards a coordinated vision. The group agreed to continue meeting to work towards presenting a DSpace Roadmap during OR2014. VIVO Mike Conlon, VIVO steering group and Co-director of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and Director of Biomedical Informatics, UF College of Medicine reviewed the VIVO roadmap that included several related grant activities underway to raise additional development funds. He reiterated that VIVO is very flexible software but “in the end people are there because the want to share information about scholarly work.” There is an ongoing need for VIVO documentation to get additional people onboard with the development process.  The Linked Data for Libraries Project is an opportunity for VIVO to reach out to a group who will understand VIVO’s RDF capabilities. The core of VIVO is in "sharing" as both a model and a means. Promoting and implementing methods and messages for different types of adopters is part of the way forward for VIVO.   [Less]

Winchester, MA  The DuraSpace 2014 Sponsorship Summit took place at the Cosmos Club, founded in 1878, in Washington, DC March 11 and 12. The historic venue provided a good setting to explore how open source governance and funding models could ... [More] ensure the future of DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects and communities. Introduction The DuraSpace 2014 Sponsor Summit was focused on providing stakeholders with details about 2013 accomplishments and key strategic organizational priorities for 2014. DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton and board president Paul Courant opened the 2014 DuraSpace Sponsor Summit meeting with a review of the full agenda and introductions to members of the DuraSpace board who were in attendance. Meeting documentation including session notes and slides can be found here. Courant applauded DuraSpace for their efforts over the past two years to bring in diversified revenue streams to support and sustain the organization beyond grant funding. Courant also noted much effort was spent in the last year to expand the Board to from six to eleven new board members. One significant change was to appoint one member of each steering group to the board. This would provide better representation of the project interests. Kimpton gave an update on key strategic work for 2014 that includes "building a sustainable model for the organization and the community". A large part of the meeting was devoted to discussion and feedback on a proposed membership and governance model designed to connect direct project governance with levels of membership as a way to deepen community engagement and commitment. DuraSpace revenue streams were diversified in 2013 with a 70% increase in sponsorship support. This increase came as the DSpace and Fedora communities recognized that the code base was more than ten years old and in need of modernization. Redesigning Fedora’s proven architecture to serve the community for the next 5-10 years is already far along with the development of Fedora 4 which is scheduled for a beta release at OR2014. Fedora fundraising took off in 2013 as excitement about the redesign of the product was leveraged by project steering group leaders. Kimpton noted that 188 DSpace and 21 Fedora repositories were added in 2013 to illustrate that global use of these platforms continues to increase worldwide. A key issue in 2014 will be to shift project support to reflect the geographic use of DSpace in particular. Establishing project steering groups with direct oversight of the Fedora, DSpace and VIVO in 2013 was a key accomplishment. The steering groups are at different stages of development, but the general direction is to tightly engage stakeholders by connecting fundraising and project governance to direct community participation in project leadership. Kimpton also noted DuraSpace services successes in 2013. The recent launch of DSpaceDirect was aimed at smaller institutions in need of simple and cost-effectibe preservation and archiving of their content. The integration of DuraCloud with Archive-It paves the way for computer services that could be run on arc files in the cloud providing a research opportunity for ongoing analysis. The recent Net Plus I2 partnership with general adoption and availability will expand connections with university CIOs. The DuraCloud and Chronopolis integration will enable a Digital Preservation Network (DPN) node at the University of San Diego. Introduction to the New DuraSpace Membership Model Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace Chief Strategy Officer, reviewed the evolving membership model for 2014 while reminding attendees that the next day’s sessions would be focused on deep discussion and gathering feedback on this proposal. "We need to bring more members to our organization," he said, “Membership makes more sense socially and in different cultural contexts than sponsorship does and university library budgets often allow for memberships.” The membership concept is more consistent with Duraspace’s evolving governance models because it "buys members more of a say in the project". These are some of the reasons that led DuraSpace to propose a formal governance structure around a membership model. “Because we don't want to rock the boat with current sponsors we have kept the same levels and have instituted a package of benefits–though we don't have a lot to give away–at each of level of membership that are meant to entice folks to come in at higher levels,” Markow explained. The key reason to "join" DuraSpace goes beyond benefits–it is in the mutual interest of both the DuraSpace organization and stakeholders to actively participate. Currently all three open source projects have different levels of sponsorship. Five levels (Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze) are tough to differentiate. Getting the community to understand what the benefits are at each level is a challenge. Fedora, DSpace and VIVO updates from project Steering Group members followed. Fedora Update: Community; Software; Sustainability Rob Cartolano, Chair of the Fedora steering group and Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services for Columbia University Libraries/Information Services,  began by clearing up any lingering identity issues around the current work on Fedora 4. In the early days of organizing interest around re-architecting Fedora the effort was named Fedora Futures. Cartolano said, " Fedora Futures = Fedora". They are now one and the same. “Reimagining Fedora” began because stakeholder institutions came together in 2012 to address the fact that Fedora was not being maintained or developed sufficiently to meet current institutional needs. DuraSpace was also not collecting enough Fedora project sponsorship revenue to sustain adequate development. There are more than 300+ Fedora implementations and only 41 Fedora Sponsors. Project goals include sustaining a process for developing software and building community in the near and long-term. A beta release of Fedora 4 is due out this summer at the Open Repositories Conference, June 9-13. The team is engaged in a dynamic, iterative development process who are committed to Feodra 4 as a transformational product. Eddie Shin began work towards a new Fedora with rapid development phases called "sprints" that continue today under the technical leadership of Andrew Woods (12 sprints have been completed towards the release of Fedora 4). The development process has been open and priorities have been selected by the community and is a transparent process. He reminded the audience that by contributing code, use cases and resources the process gets better. Fedora 4 development is great example of successful teamwork. Cartolano wondered about what the "steady state" for building a well-maintained and vibrant open source software platform would look like over the long term. The Fedora 4 project is initially funded for three years. To keep the vibrant community process alive the team is beginning to discuss options foraddressing future sustainability. Cartolano sees areas for growth and innovations.There is interest in exploring a Fedora and VIVO collaboration. Dean Kraft suggested in comments that the Linked Data for libraries project will bring VIVO closer to where DSPace and Fedora "live". A Year in the Life of DSpace Stuart Lewis, DSpace steering group and Deputy Director of Library and University Collections and Head of Research and Learning Services at University of Edinburgh, gave a presentation focused on the unique DSpace process that interweaves software development with a diverse global community. Currently the DSpace community is focusing on sustainability and governance issues as they relate to an emerging common vision. After twelve years DSpace continues to evolve with 59 developers from many countries. Each release of DSpace offers the community new features gathered from many contributors. Using GitHub unlocked code contributions from a large number of new committers. Installations of DSpace continue to grow–currently almost to 1600 users from all over the world. Only 1/5 of the DSpace installations are in North America where most DSpace sponsorship revenue is collected. Developing strategies for increasing DSpace sponsorship contributions outside of North America is a key task for the newly-formed DSpace Steering Group. Lewis believes that hosted DSpace (DSpaceDirect) will be a valuable service for users outside of North America. Recently the DSpace community was asked to participate in a DSpace Vision survey to come up with a unified vision for how DSpace might develop in the future. Early ideas include: 1. A focus on modern IR use case 2. Software should be lean and agile 3. Core software functions should be extendable 4. Should be configurable to interoperate and support digital scholareship as it evolves 5. Low-cost hosted solutions and deployments should be encouraged Next steps include developing a roadmap based on a common vision, engaging the community, and development/deployment. Software–Data–Standards (Ontology)–One Community Dean Krafft, VIVO steering group and Chief Technology Strategist for Cornell University Library, offered a simple VIVO explanation. VIVO connects scientists and scholars with and through their research and scholarship and is the only standard way to exchange information about research and researchers across diverse institutions. VIVO software is built on VITRO and has had 8 releases in 4 years. VIVO takes complex inputs from multiple institutions and normalizes them to make sense of authority and connections among resources and people. Morning sessions concluded with table break-out discussions focused on discussing what have you heard, what concerns you, what inspires you, and what do you have questions about? Responses were positive with regard to news about increased DuraSpace revenues, initial feedback regarding the change from “sponsorship” to “membership” and growing excitement about deep community engagement in the process of developing Fedora 4. Participants saw opportunities for leveraging the “portfolio” of Fedora products and services with regard to the use of common languages, standards, and knowledge bases. More collaboration opportunities with DuraSpace were desired such as identifying and applying for grants. Afternoon sessions included a review of national initiatives contributing to the evolving research and scholarship ecosystem. Introduction to "Research and Scholarship Ecosystem Evolution" James Hilton, DuraSpace Board and University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan opened his overview of the Research and Scholarship Ecosystem with a diagram of the ecosystem of scholarly digital content and the associated emerging software stack. He suggested that the diagram is not that exciting because most attendees had seen it previously. He explained that there will be no more 20K payments from stakeholder institutions for anything until "how it all fits together" is understood. He reviewed the stack and had added VIVO as part of supporting code base. Integration and interoperability are still on the table as unresolved connectivity issues. As a community Hilton suggests that we should be focused on broad infrastructure development, not on one-off baubles. "Resist the siren song of tight integrations to get to the shiny thing; look at it strategically for the long-haul," he said. The nature of how we use digital content in almost any context is that we take something and do something else with it. The days of faith-based assertions about the value and impact of this exchange are over. We need to back up assertions with data. Hilton advocates for loose coupling of technical components to make it possible to establish workflow exit strategies. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). He introduced the DPLA as a portal for discovery, a platform to build upon, and a strong public option. All DPLA collections are geocoded, content types are collected in content hubs that retain retain digital objects and holdings consist of normalized metadata. DPLA cultivates a peer-to-peer relationship with libraries in trying to gather content that represents "the whole range of human expression". Service hubs are like DPLAs related to their native geographic areas. He suggested that a pond (collection) > lake (local service hub) > ocean (DPLA content hub) metaphor represents the relationship between service hubs and DPLA content hubs. The DPLA is one year old and currently holds about 6 million items from 1200 contributing institutions. Content hubs have shown increases in use of the materials over the last year. DPLA provides stats on usage to partners. The DPLA goal is to partner with everyone. Coherance at Scale Committee Chuck Henry, DuraSpace Board member and president of CLIR, discussed the Committee on Coherence at Scale founded by CLIR and Vanderbilt University to foster strategic thinking about how to more rigorously manage the transition from analog to digital in higher education. There are several large-scale projects being built such as DPN and SHARE. Most facets of higher education interests are covered by one of these projects. Is it useful to look at infrastructure support for a coherent set of these projects. An Introduction to SHARE Elliot Shore, Executive Director of ARL, introduced SHARE, (the Shared Access Research Ecosystem) which is an initiative spearheaded by the higher education community. SHARE seeks to ensure that the outputs of scholarly research are preserved, discovered and built upon in a manner which facilitates and accelerates the research process.  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) have partnered to develop SHARE. Management of SHARE is overseen by a steering committee drawn from the leadership and membership of ARL, AAU and APLU. One of the first activities of SHARE is the creation of the SHARE Notification Service to make it substantially easier for all parties to manage and oversee the reporting of research results.  When complete, the Notification Service will notify any interested stakeholder – at no charge – of the release of research results.  It will also be possible to query the Notification Service.  “Release of research results” encompasses publication of articles, the dissemination of research data, and the posting of materials in repositories and data archives. Shore asked the audience, “How can we pull this off?” He said that college and university presidents are now hearing about large-scale digital initiatives (DPLA, DPN and others) as parts of a coherent system from many angles. He believes that all of these initiatives could be brought together by SHARE. The SHARE notification system will be looking at research release results initially. This system could live in DuraSpace or several places, and it leverages the investments we have already made in infrastructure. Are there enough pieces out there now that we could begin to build this coherent world now? Digital content/scholarship has been around for about 20 years. SHARE is a system that is being built to work together and could be the glue that holds all of these infrastructure elements together. Digital Preservation Network (DPN) James Hilton concluded the overview of "Research and Scholarship Ecosystem Evolution" with a status report on the Digital Preservation Network (DPN). There are ongoing outreach efforts aimed at gathering resources and presenting plans to the Association of American Universities (AAU). The goal is to make sure that the college and university presidents show up to learn more about DPN because they believe in the mission to ensure that the complete scholarly record is preserved for future generations. DPN has one employee plus technical partners and one strategic partner–DuraSpace–who are  working towards developing "a digital preservation backbone for the academy." Hilton reminded the audience that preserving something "forever" is an untested construct. The technical deliverables reflect a focus on issues related to change over time that include scaling, “brightening” preserved content (making it accessible) is non-trivial, and the fact that the DPN system preserves whatever is deposited, but does not change it. A limited beta release of DPN will be available at the upcoming CNI member meeting. Summary of discussions from Day 2 Project Groups FEDORA Tom Cramer, Fedora steering group and Chief Technology Strategist and the Associate Director of Digital Library Systems and Services for the Stanford University Libraries, offered a summary of what was discussed during the project’s break-out session. It’s been 18 months since the revolution that began the community push towards re-architecting Fedora into Fedora 4. In one year Andrew Woods has come on board as the project’s technical lead and David Wilcox is now the Fedora product manager. Notable points in developing a deeply engaging community-driven software development process: Andrew Woods has said, "All Fedora 4 development is community-based, and all of the use cases are community-based" Collecting ongoing use cases from the community is critical Acceptance testing is key to developing a viable product We need more members The Spring 3.7.2 release which will be the last in the 3.0 series Fedora 4.0 beta will be out this summer The Fedora 4.0 production release will be out  in Fall of 2015 as an MVP "Launch and support greenfield Fedora 4 projects" will be the first implementation priority Maybe training is going for be required as an opportunity to get people exposed to Fedora Where does the rubber meet the road? There is agreement on many exciting and gratifying aspects of the Fedora 4 process: We love the community process The process has helped to “sell it locally” There are levels of engagement across the community Process is Fast and inclusive We love the new features especially the Triplestore and RDF Main concerns center around migration of Fedora 3 to Fedora 4. Interesting future directions may include a look into something like FedoraDirect (similar to DSpaceDirect), a VIVO collaboration and a continued focus on establishing governance and a membership model that works for the Fedora community. DSPACE Deborah Hanken Kurtz, DSpace steering group and Director of the Texas Digital Library (TDL), offered a summary of DSpace discussions. Membership, governance and concern about diversity, especially those who can contribute code but not resources, were key topics of conversation. Several good ideas for the future were discussed including brainstorming ways to reach out to DSpace users in Japan along with coming up with a lower level of membership that could include in-kind contribtutions and low fees. Tim Donohue, DSpace tech lead, reviewed “How DSpace Works”. The DSpace Vision Group, DSPace Ambassadors, DCAT and committers all play a role making sure that the annual release of DSpace is both feature-rich and reflects community priorities. DSpace Vision Survey results showed that 60% of people who responded had migrated to 3.0 or higher and 20% of the respondent installations are from the US. Casting a wider net to get feedback from international DSpace users was mentioned as being a key factor in moving forward towards a coordinated vision. The group agreed to continue meeting to work towards presenting a DSpace Roadmap during OR2014. VIVO Mike Conlon, VIVO steering group and Co-director of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and Director of Biomedical Informatics, UF College of Medicine reviewed the VIVO roadmap that included several related grant activities underway to raise additional development funds. He reiterated that VIVO is very flexible software but “in the end people are there because the want to share information about scholarly work.” There is an ongoing need for improving VIVO documentation to get additional people onboard with the development process.  The Linked and Open Data for libraries and Museums project may offer an opportunity for VIVO to reach out to users familiar with RDF capabilities. The core of VIVO is in "sharing" as both a model and a means. Promoting and implementing methods and messages for different types of adopters is part of the way forward for VIVO.   [Less]

“DSpaceDirect Details” is an ongoing series of blog posts relating key features of the only low-cost hosted repository solution for discovery, access, and archiving, to common institutional repository requirements. Winchester, MA  Among the ... [More] advantages of establishing an open access repository EIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) points out, “Institutions benefit from open access in the following ways: increased visibility and presence on the Web; increased impact for research; the open access collection in the repository forms a complete record of the research output of the institution in easily accessible form, provides the means for the institution to manage its research programmes more effectively and to measure and assess its research programmes. Open repositories publicise an institute’s research strengths, providing maximum return on research investment.” [1] A repository’s role in showcasing an institution’s brand is a key factor in meeting organizational goals. A general repository need is to ensure that resources are identified as being made available through a clearly branded user interface that reflects an organization’s logo and color scheme. With DSpaceDirect's "You-pick features" the means to communicate your brand through your IR is part of the service. Patrons learn more about your institution by accessing digital collections through an IR user interface that communicates your institution’s identity while at the same time fitting seamlessly with your institutional web presence. Basic customization of your DSpaceDirect repository includes color selections, inclusion of a logo and favicon, as well as customizable introductory text describing your repository. A variety of style templates are available to chose from. After you select a template the DSpaceDirect team works with you to add visual elements that more closely align with your institution’s brand. To find out how effective your DSpaceDirect repository is in bringing attention to your institution DSpace provides internal usage statistics that track page views and downloads. In addition, if you have a Google Analytics account, you may choose to add Google Analytics tracking to your DSpaceDirect account. As an optional feature DSpaceDirect offers enhanced site branding which includes site customizations to make the look and feel of your repository more closely match your institution’s web site (to the extent possible). ABOUT DSPACE DIRECT DSpaceDirect is the only hosted repository solution for low-cost discovery, access, archiving, and preservation from DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DSpaceDirect is available with convenient features that include fast start-up, you-pick customization, no-cost upgrades, content preservation options, anytime data access and all-the-time data control–all at a price that puts solutions for long-term access to digital scholarly assets within reach of institutions of any size. • Get DSpaceDirect details: http://dspacedirect.org/benefits • DSpaceDirect pricing page: http://dspacedirect.org/pricing • Get a DSpaceDirect quote right away: http://dspacedirect.org/inquiry [1] http://www.eifl.net/faq/how-do-universities-and-research-institutions- [Less]

“DSpaceDirect Details” is an ongoing series of blog posts relating key features of the only low-cost hosted repository solution for discovery, access, and archiving, to common institutional repository requirements. Winchester, MA  Among the ... [More] advantages of establishing an open access repository EIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) points out, “Institutions benefit from open access in the following ways: increased visibility and presence on the Web; increased impact for research; the open access collection in the repository forms a complete record of the research output of the institution in easily accessible form, provides the means for the institution to manage its research programmes more effectively and to measure and assess its research programmes. Open repositories publicise an institute’s research strengths, providing maximum return on research investment.” [1] A repository’s role in showcasing an institution’s brand is a key factor in meeting organizational goals. A general repository need is to ensure that resources are identified as being made available through a clearly branded user interface that reflects an organization’s logo and color scheme. With DSpaceDirect's "You-pick features" the means to communicate your brand through your IR is part of the service. Patrons learn more about your institution by accessing digital collections through an IR user interface that communicates your institution’s identity while at the same time fitting seamlessly with your institutional web presence. Basic customization of your DSpaceDirect repository includes color selections, inclusion of a logo and favicon, as well as customizable introductory text describing your repository. A variety of style templates are available to chose from. After you select a template the DSpaceDirect team works with you to add visual elements that more closely align with your institution’s brand. To find out how effective your DSpaceDirect repository is in bringing attention to your institution DSpace provides internal usage statistics that track page views and downloads. In addition, if you have a Google Analytics account, you may choose to add Google Analytics tracking to your DSpaceDirect account. As an optional feature DSpaceDirect offers enhanced site branding which includes site customizations to make the look and feel of your repository more closely match your institution’s web site (to the extent possible). ABOUT DSPACE DIRECT DSpaceDirect is the only hosted repository solution for low-cost discovery, access, archiving, and preservation from DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DSpaceDirect is available with convenient features that include fast start-up, you-pick customization, no-cost upgrades, content preservation options, anytime data access and all-the-time data control–all at a price that puts solutions for long-term access to digital scholarly assets within reach of institutions of any size. • Get DSpaceDirect details: http://dspacedirect.org/benefits • DSpaceDirect pricing page: http://dspacedirect.org/pricing • Get a DSpaceDirect quote right away: http://dspacedirect.org/inquiry [1] http://www.eifl.net/faq/how-do-universities-and-research-institutions- [Less]

Winchester, MA  Traveling to Raleigh, NC next week? Stop by the DuraSpace table at Code4Lib 2014 to learn about how to participate in DuraSpace projects–DSpace, Fedora and VIVO. The DuraSpace organization stewards three significant open source ... [More] technology projects that provide long-term, durable access to, management and discovery of digital assets for more than 1,800 repository instances worldwide. Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace, will be on hand to discuss DuraSpace open source projects and how you can get involved. • The Fedora Project–Team members will be available to discuss the latest Fedora 4 feature set designed to refresh and enhance Fedora's proven architecture, and offer demonstrations. • The DSpace Project–Tim Donohue, technical lead for the DSpace project, will be on hand to talk about DSpace development and demonstrate DSpace 4 (via the new vagrant-dspace development environment). • The VIVO Project–Learn about what's ahead for this groundbreaking network that facilitates scholarly discovery around the world through an open source semantic web application. [Less]

Winchester, MA  Traveling to Raleigh, NC next week? Stop by the DuraSpace table at Code4Lib 2014 to learn about how to participate in DuraSpace projects–DSpace, Fedora and VIVO. The DuraSpace organization stewards three significant open source ... [More] technology projects that provide long-term, durable access to, management and discovery of digital assets for more than 1,800 repository instances worldwide. Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace, will be on hand to discuss DuraSpace open source projects and how you can get involved. • The Fedora Project–Team members will be available to discuss the latest Fedora 4 feature set designed to refresh and enhance Fedora's proven architecture, and offer demonstrations. • The DSpace Project–Tim Donohue, technical lead for the DSpace project, will be on hand to talk about DSpace development and demonstrate DSpace 4 (via the new vagrant-dspace development environment). • The VIVO Project–Learn about what's ahead for this groundbreaking network that facilitates scholarly discovery around the world through an open source semantic web application. [Less]

Over the past five years, a growing international movement of developers, researchers, administrators, funders, librarians and informaticians has converged around the vision of openly representing research and researchers via Linked Open Data. VIVO ... [More] is helping to make this vision a reality through its community, through open software and the VIVO-ISF (Integrated Semantic Framework) ontology, and through a growing number of adopters and collaborators worldwide, across multiple knowledge domains. The 2014 VIVO conference will be held Aug. 6-8, 2014 in Austin, Texas and will explore how to participate in and best take advantage of the emerging Linked Open Data world encompassing and expanding our understanding of the rapidly growing network of information describing and interlinking researchers and research. How can we contribute? How will newly available data and the applications built around it change the future of research networking? How will the vision evolve into practice? This year, the conference will be co-located with the Science of Team Science (SciTS) conference, and attendees will be able to freely attend both VIVO and SciTS presentations. Topics of Interest • Researcher collaboration and networking • Implementation and adoption of VIVO and related systems that interoperate through shared ontologies and Linked Open Data • Open research data and related issues in discovery, reuse, and attribution – including research dataset representation and linkages • Open representations of research and implications for the research process, collaboration, and virtual research communities • Team-based science • Theory and practice of working with the VIVO-ISF Ontology and other modules of the Integrated Semantic Framework Applications that use VIVO-compliant Linked Open Data and/or SPARQL queries • Visualization, analysis, and metrics • Managing and discovering knowledge about researchers across institutional, disciplinary, and geographic boundaries • The intersection of VIVO and international research information and identifier standards • Policy perspectives, planning, and modelling for compliance and/or knowledge mobilization • Perspectives on policy, research representation, and research impact, including questions of privacy, individual vs. institutional sourcing of data, and change over time • Semantic Web development and extensions of the VIVO platform to reach the full Web community • Development and extensions of the VIVO platform • Use of VIVO data for evaluation and strategic forecasting for institutions and organizations Submissions Authors are invited to submit abstracts for poster, panel, and paper presentations related to the Topics of Interest. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors can submit their abstract and the completed submission form at the conference submission site from https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vivo14 Abstracts will undergo the peer-review process and the reviewing process is strictly confidential. Proposals must be submitted as a one-page (8.5 x 11 inch) document [PDF or MS Word format].  Each submission should not exceed one page typeset in 12-point font and must include: • The title of the submission and the names, academic degree(s), affiliations, and locations (city, state, and country) of all authors • An abstract summarizing the submission and offering the reviewers a clear reflection of the contents and key points of the proposed presentation, panel, or poster. Categories of Submissions • Presentations: Papers are requested on topics related to those listed in the Topics of Interest.  Authors will be considered for either a full-length presentation of 45 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions or for inclusion into a collection of presentations to be delivered during a single session.  These shorter presentations will be 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions.  Please indicate your preference (short or long talk) on your submission. • Posters: Poster presentations offer an excellent opportunity to present preliminary research and projects and allow for stimulating dialog on the topic at hand. • Panels: Panel presentations offer an opportunity to address a topic in a group format.  Panels may be organized around a specific topic or may offer an innovative approach that cuts across multiple topic areas, technologies, experiences, or disciplines. There will usually be no more than four panelists in a given panel session. Important Dates Accepted papers will be presented by their author(s) and will be published in the conference proceedings. The proceedings are provided free of charge to conference attendees. For further details or inquiries, please contact Program Chair, Dean Krafft at [email protected]. Abstracts due: April 4, 2014 Decision: May 2, 2014 About VIVO VIVO is an open source, open ontology, open process platform for hosting information about the interests, activities and accomplishments of scientists and scholars.  VIVO supports open development and integration of science and scholarship through simple, standard semantic web technologies.  Learn more at vivoweb.org.   [Less]