*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
June 5, 2013
Contact: Carol Minton Morris <[email protected]>
Read it online: <goog_902242553>bit.ly/13l8VNH
*Northeastern Univerisity Libraries Joins the Fedora Futures Project as
Platinum Sponsor*
The Fedora Futures team is very pleased to extend a warm welcome to
Northeastern University. Northeastern is one of several institutions who
are answering the a call for serious community re-investment in Fedora,
"our core digital asset management and preservation service".
The fast-moving Fedora Futures initiative was started by members of the
Fedora community to preserve the strengths of the Fedora architecture and
community, address the need for robust and full-featured repository
services, and to provide a successful platform for the next 5-10 years.
Read more on the Fedora Futures blog:
http://fcrepo.org/blog/2013/03/18/welcome-to-the-future/.
"Northeastern University's contributions to Fedora are a tremendous boost
to the project," said Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist at the
Stanford University Libraries, and a member of the Fedora Futures steering
group. "Their sponsorship--both financial and advisory--will be
instrumental in helping us achieve critical mass in redeveloping Fedora for
the next generation of uses and users."
The DuraSpace and the Fedora Futures Steering Group are seeking "platinum"
sponsors to raise the level of support for Fedora to $500,000 a year for
three years to catalyze the development of Fedora 4.
*About Fedora*
Fedora is an open source project that provides a flexible, extensible and
durable digital object management services. First released in 2004, it has
hundreds of adopters worldwide, with deep roots in the research,
scientific, intellectual and cultural heritage communities. See
http://fedora-commons.org/ for more information. It is supported by its
community of users, and stewarded by DuraSpace. The Fedora Futures Steering
Committee is looking for project sponsors and in-kind contributions of
developer time to meet project goals over the next three years. *If you are
interested in finding out about how to get involved please contact Jonathan
Markow at [email protected] <http://mailto:[email protected]/>.*
*About DuraSpace*
DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that
promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with
academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting
projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future
generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our values are
expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future."
DuraSpace supported open technology projects provide long-term, durable
access to and discovery of digital assets. DSpace and Fedora are two of the
most widely-used repository solutions in the world with more than fifteen
hundred institutions that use and help develop these open source software
repository platforms.
DuraSpace also provides innovative solutions to meet today’s access and
preservation challenges with subscription services that include DuraCloud<
http://duracloud.org>, an easy and cost effective way to archive, share and
manage content in the cloud, and DSpaceDirect <http://dspacedirect.org>, a
low-cost, hosted repository service due to launch in the summer of 2013.
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Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
[email protected]
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter@DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
Twitter@DuraCloud <http://twitter.com/duracloud>
http://DuraSpace.org
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