[CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: DuraSpace 2015 DSpace, Fedora and VIVO Open Source Project Leadership Groups
To read on-line: bit.ly/14WlBjZ Winchester, MA The Leadership Groups for DSpace, Fedora and VIVO are now in place for 2015. Each Leadership Group plays a key role in setting the strategic direction and priorities for their project through: - Establishment of the community direction - Approval of the annual budget allocation - Approval of the project roadmap To see a list of individuals on the Leadership Groups please follow the links below:DSpace Leadership Group (http://dspace.org/leadership-group)Fedora Leadership Group (http://fedorarepository.org/leadership-group)VIVO Leadership Group (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/VIVO+Leadership+Group) The formation of the Leadership Groups is a part of the new governance model for all DuraSpace projects. The model is representative and community-based and includes several governing groups with various levels of responsibility. Eligibility to serve in project governance is determined by participation in the DuraSpace Membership Program, incrementally enabling member organizations who have made the greatest commitments (financial or in-kind staff commitments) to the project. The Leadership Group is comprised of individuals from organizations that have contributed at that highest membership levels and/or from institutions contributing in-kind resources at approved levels. There are also elected representatives from the lower membership levels. For more information about the new governing groups, please visit the respective governance pages for DSpace (http://dspace.org/governance), Fedora (http://fedorarepository.org/fedora-governance) and VIVO (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/Project+Governance).
[CODE4LIB] NOW OPEN: OR2015 Conference System–Submit Your Open Repositories Conf Proposal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 16, 2014Read it online: bit.ly/1wVJGDP Submit Your OR2015 Proposal: Conference System Open The Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2015, will be held June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis (Indiana, USA). The organizers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. The conference theme is LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS. It is an opportunity to reflect on and to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication, and research data over the last decade. More critically, however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping, and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. The organizers invite you to review the full call for proposals here: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/, and to submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2015/ by January 30, 2015. There are several different formats provided to encourage your participation in this year's conference, all described on the OR2015 website. CODE OF CONDUCT The Open Repositories Steering Committee is pleased to announce the release of the new Open Repositories Code of Conduct http://www.or2015.net/code-of-conduct/. The Open Repositories Code of Conduct underscores the OR Conference core value of openness by providing a welcoming and positive experience for everyone, whether they are in a formal session or a social setting, or are taking part in activities online. KEY DATES • 30 January 2015: Deadline for submissions and Scholarship Programme applications • 27 March 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference • 10 April 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to Interest Groups • 8-11 June 2015: OR2015 conference The conference system is now open and is linked from the conference web site: http://www.or2015.net/ We look forward to welcoming you to Indianapolis!
[CODE4LIB] NEWS RELEASE: The Fedora 4 Production Release is Now Available—Not Your Dad’s Fedora
NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4 Production Release—Not Your Dad’s Fedora Groundbreaking new capabilities make Fedora 4 the repository platform of choice for right now and into the future.Winchester, MA The international Fedora repository community and DuraSpace are very pleased to announce the production release of Fedora 4. This significant release signals the effectiveness of an international and complex community source project in delivering a modern repository platform with features that meet or exceed current use cases in the management of institutional digital assets. Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, ease of use and more.Fedora 4 features were collaboratively chosen and developed by a virtual team of developers and stakeholders from around the globe. With DuraSpace support this committed team has ensured that Fedora Repository software will meet the emerging needs of the academic research community now and for the next decade.• DOWNLOAD Fedora 4: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads• RELEASE NOTES: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0.0+Release+Notes• DOCUMENTATION: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA40/Fedora+4.0+Documentation• VIDEO: http://youtu.be/Mg_QFDAspoE Community KudosRobin Ruggaber, Chair of the Fedora Steering Group and Library Chief Technology Officer at the University of Virginia commented on Fedora’s achievements: “The success of the Fedora community today is rooted in the way it operates. The community members govern, fund, shape and produce the solution to meet global repositories’ needs and performance requirements. The development is based on what product owners need and is managed so that everyone in the community can contribute without individually exhausting human or financial resources. We are maximizing the power of distributed development and ownership and are rewarded with a sustainable, low risk, moderate cost solution.” Stefano Cossu, Director of Application Services, Collections at The Art Institute of Chicago offered his reasons for adopting Fedora 4: “We have searched far and wide for a system that could store our large and diverse collection of art objects and their related assets, integrate in a complex architecture of legacy applications and data sources, and make our digital resources available in a wide variety of ways. We have adopted Fedora 4 very early for its scalability and flexibility in all its aspects, its adhesion to solid standards, the project's long-sighted goals and the extremely talented and motivated community around it.” Fedora 4 support for linked data—what it means for youThe broad concept of linked data is the idea that the semantic web can connect everything. Fedora 4 makes that concept real. With built-in linked data support Fedora 4 offers the ability to develop discovery tools in compliance with the W3C Linked Data Platform specification. The long-held linked data promise of broad and deeply faceted discovery on the open web is based on the concept that information can be exchanged using the resource description framework (RDF) as a standard model. The ability to share data openly and take advantage of the semantic web means that content is not “inside a silo” that can only be discovered and re-used if repository software adheres to standardization and interoperability. With Fedora 4 the “Web is a repository” providing new kinds of digital collections and data sources for services and applications. Scalability—how big is bigAs larger data sets, larger files, research data and multimedia use cases have emerged in the community Fedora 4 is set to meet the challenge of improved scalability. Fedora 4 repositories can manage millions and millions of digital files along with extremely large files of any type running on top of back-end storage systems. This means that petabytes of storage are available to you because Fedora can potentially operate on top of any storage system via a pluggable, expandable connector framework. Flexibility and extensibility—plugging into what worksThe strength of Fedora repository software lies in it’s native flexibility and extensibility. Fedora 4 architecture builds on a lightweight core model with multiple, pluggable components and a standard set of robust APIs. SecurityFedora 4 provides a pluggable, extensible security framework capable of supporting a variety of authorization systems. Two initial systems have been implemented—role-based authorization and XACML. A third, based on the emerging W3C Web Access Control standard, is currently being planned. By decoupling security from the repository core, Fedora 4 supports existing authorization standards rather than maintaining a custom security framework. ClusteringClustering connects multiple Fedora 4 nodes in a network providing horizontal repository scaling for high-availability use cases. By
[CODE4LIB] The Quarterly Report from Fedora, July - September 2014
November 19, 2014 Read it online: bit.ly/1teeCXIContact: David Wilcox dwil...@duraspace.org The Quarterly Report from Fedora, July - September 2014Fedora Development In the past quarter, the development team released two Beta releases of Fedora 4; detailed release notes are here: - Fedora 4.0 Beta 2 Release Notes - Fedora 4.0 Beta 3 Release Notes These two releases bring us much closer to the Fedora 4.0 production release. Features of note include demonstrated support for large numbers of files, improvements to file-system projection, better support for transactions, demonstrated ability to support high-availability use cases via clustering, and many other improvements. In addition to these features, a great deal of effort has been put into improving the test coverage and overall performance of Fedora 4. We encourage the community to download and install Fedora 4 (a one-click installer is available) and test out the new features.Fedora 4.0 is only the first release in the 4.x line - a number of features, including support for Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 migrations, are planned for subsequent 4.x releases. While releasing Fedora 4.0 into production is our top development priority, we must also start scheduling the 2015 January to June block of code sprints to work on the next 4.x release. Please consider contributing developer time to these sprints by contacting Andrew Woods (awo...@duraspace.org), the Fedora Technical Lead.FundraisingWe have concluded our official annual membership campaign, which runs from early May until the end of October (though we will continue to accept new project members throughout the year whenever the opportunity arises). The annual membership goal for 2014 is $500,000, and as of this report we have exceeded this goal by raising $525,083. The Fedora project has a total of 62 members; this includes 23 new members and 39 renewals from last year's members. The Fedora Product Manager will continue to coordinate with members of the Fedora Steering Group to expand the pool of DuraSpace members supporting the Fedora project and build a sustainable funding base for the future.Community Engagement and OutreachIn the past quarter, developers have continued to hold daily meetings in conjunction with development sprints, as well as weekly Fedora committer calls attended by the broader community. Widespread adoption of Fedora 4 from the Islandora and Hydra communities is critical to the success of the project. To this end, the Fedora Product Manager traveled to Toronto for Islandora Camp GTA in August to engage with the Islandora community and encourage adoption of Fedora 4. Similarly, the Fedora Technical Lead traveled to Cleveland, Ohio for Hydra Connect in September to meet with the Hydra community and run a workshop on Fedora 4. Both communities have voiced their support for Fedora 4, and we expect to see many integration projects in the coming months.Engagement with the international community is another critical success factor for the project, so the Product Manager traveled to Europe in September to attend and present at several events, including PASIG, the 4th RDA Plenary, and a Fedora User Group meeting. These events provided opportunities to meet with potential DuraSpace members and project collaborators, demonstrate the features and functionality of Fedora 4, and find out what more we can do to engage with the international community.Fedora 4 TrainingWhile this quarterly report covers the period of July to September, a number of important Fedora 4 training events took place in October and November that should be highlighted. The first training workshop was held in Washington, DC on October 7 following the DC Fedora User Group meeting. It was well attended (32 participants) and the feedback was very positive. The next training workshop was held in Denver, Colorado on October 16 following Islandora Camp CO. Attendance for this event was capped at 30, and it was full with a waiting list. The final October training workshop was held in Melbourne, Australia on October 31 following the eResearch Australasia conference. This event had 25 attendees and was an excellent opportunity for engagement with Fedora community members in the Australasian region. Further details on these events will be provided in the upcoming fourth quarter report.Fedora 4.0 Production ReleaseFedora 4.0 development is nearly complete; the production release will be available in December. This release marks the culmination of over two years of planning, fundraising, development, testing, and documentation effort from the Fedora community. Fedora 4.0 targets new repositories; planning is already underway to support Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 migrations in the forthcoming Fedora 4.1 release.Upcoming Conferences and EventsAfter successfully completing Fedora 4.0 Beta Pilot projects, representatives from the Art Institute of Chicago, University of California,
[CODE4LIB] CALL for Proposals: Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 13, 2015 Read it online: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/ Text only version: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/CfP+markdown The Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2015, will be held on June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis (Indiana, USA). The organizers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. This year's conference theme is: LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS OR2015 is the tenth OR conference, and this year’s overarching theme reflects that milestone: Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads. It is an opportunity to reflect on and to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication and research data over the last decade. More critically however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. OR2015 will provide an opportunity to explore the demands and roles now expected of both repositories and the staff who develop, support and manage them - and to prepare them for the challenges of the next decade. We welcome proposals on this theme, but also on the theoretical, practical, organizational or administrative topics related to digital repositories. We are particularly interested in: 1. Supporting Open Scholarship, Open Science, and Cultural Heritage Online Papers are invited to consider how repositories can best support the needs of open science, open scholarship, and cultural heritage to make research as accessible as possible, including: • Open access, open data and open educational resources • Scholarly workflows, publishing and communicating scientific knowledge • Compliance with funder mandates • Considerations for cultural heritage and digital humanities resources 2. Managing Research (and Open) Data Papers are invited to consider how repositories can support the needs of research data. Areas of interest are: • Data registries • Storage • Curation lifecycle management • Management and digital preservation tools 3. Integrating with External Systems Papers are invited to explore, evaluate, or demonstrate integration with external systems, including: • CRIS and research management systems • Notification systems (e.g. SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)) • Remote identifier services (e.g. ORCID, DOI, etc.) • Preservation services • Archival systems (e.g. CALM or Archivists’ Toolkit) 4. Re-using Repository Content Papers are invited to showcase how repository content can be re-used in the context of: • Discipline-based repositories and services • Discovery services • Integration of semantic technologies • Repository networks 5. Exploring Metrics and Assessment Papers are invited to present experiences on scholarly metrics and assessment services, particularly: • Bibliometrics • Downloads (e.g. COUNTER compliance) • Analytics • Altmetrics 6. Managing Rights Papers are invited to examine the role of rights management in the context of open repositories, including: • Research and scholarly communication outputs • Licenses (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data Commons) • Embargoes • Requirements of funder mandates 7. Developing and Training Staff Papers are invited to consider the evolving role of staff who support and manage repositories across libraries, cultural heritage organizations, research offices and computer centres, especially: • New roles and responsibilities • Training needs and opportunities • Career path and recruitment • Community support 8. Building the Perfect Repository Papers are invited to look ahead to OR16 and beyond to consider what the perfect repository looks like: • Key features and services • Who would be its users? • How would it transform scholarly communication? • What lessons have been learned since the first OR? • Or, is it a pipe dream and there's no such thing? Submissions that demonstrate original and repository-related work outwith these themes will be considered, but preference will be given to submissions which address them. KEY DATES 30 January 2015: Deadline for submissions and Scholarship Programme applications 27 March 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference 10 April 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to Interest Groups 8-11 June 2015: OR2015 conference SUBMISSION PROCESS Conference Papers and Panels Two to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that deal with digital repositories and repository services (see below for optional Proposal Templates). 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 an open repository. In general, sessions will have three papers; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered
[CODE4LIB] Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/ZZCJSK Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot A step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is a federation of more than 50 academic institutional members who are collaboratively developing the means to preserve the complete scholarly record for future generations. DPN has launched a Member Content Pilot program as a step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy. The pilot is testing real-world interactions between DPN members through DPN “nodes” that ingest data from members of the Digital Preservation Network and package it for preservation storage. Three DPN nodes (Chronopolis/Duracloud, The Texas Preservation Node, and the Stanford Digital Repository) will be functioning as First Nodes. All five DPN nodes (the three named above along with APTrust and HathiTrust) will be providing replication services for the pilot data. The higher education community has created many digital repositories to provide long-term preservation and access. DPN replicates multiple dark copies of these collections in diverse nodes to protect against the risk of catastrophic loss due to technology, organizational or natural disasters. Participating DPN Member Content Pilot members include Chronopolis, University of California San Diego; Dartmouth University; the DuraSpace organization; Texas Preservation Node and; Yale University. Steven Morales, DPN Chief Business Officer, is pleased with pilot project progress. “The DPN Technical Working group, comprised of the five Replicating Nodes for DPN, have done a phenomenal job linking together their existing repositories, he said, It feels great to be at a point where we can begin testing the network with real content.” The pilot provides: • A functioning preservation network capable of Services sufficient to allow First Nodes to accepting and replicating Member Pilot content and replicate it to Replicating Nodes using the developing DPN network. • Opportunity for all participating Members and First Nodes to play out a realistic content deposit scenario and to discuss and capture the requirements and questions raised. • A preliminary report to the DPN membership regarding results. DPN Timeline In 2012 DPN was launched with the support of founding member institutions. By 2013 replicating nodes had been brought together to begin building the network, software and messaging system. 2014 has been a testing year. This summer three rounds of successful internal testing was completed. In the current phase real member content is being tested as DPN members have joined together as “first nodes”. Content has been identified and prepared for packaging into DPN “bags”. Through the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 multiple rounds of testing will be ongoing. A soft launch of a production system will be available in the summer of 2015 through the end of 2016 with all member schools participating. About The Digital Preservation Network The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) will ensure that the complete scholarly record is preserved for future generations. It will be the long-term preservation solution shared collectively across the academy that protect local and consortia preservation efforts against all types of catastrophic failure. The supporting ecosystem enables higher education to own, maintain and control the scholarly record throughout time. While commercial entities may partner with us to contribute to this effort at different points in time depending on priorities and business models, final control must reside with the academy. http://www.dpn.org/.
[CODE4LIB] Letter from DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton
October 28, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1zetRaY Dear Community, It is bittersweet as I announce my departure from DuraSpace. Over the last eight years it has been an honor and privilege to work closely with the DSpace, Fedora and most recently VIVO communities to advance the software and create a sustainable pathway for each project. I have enjoyed working closely with the community to chart a pathway to collaboratively develop a research and scholarship ecosystem for managing and preserving all academic knowledge and works. Projects such as DPN, SHARE and DPLA all have great potential for providing long term managed access to knowledge and scholarship. Today we kick-off the search process to find the next CEO for DuraSpace. You can find the job description on our website (http://duraspace.org/jobs). The search committee will be screening applications as they are received. We expect to fill the position by January 2015. The position is based in the USA, however no relocation is required. It is anticipated the new CEO will set up a local office at their current location. The search committee is primarily composed of a subset of members from the DuraSpace board, and will be reviewing applications as they are received. You can submit a cover letter and application to c...@duraspace.org. Please feel free to contact me (mkimp...@duraspace.org) or someone from DuraSpace if you have any questions. Best, Michele Kimpton
[CODE4LIB] Open Source Preservation Solution—Run Archivematica 1.3.0 Locally or in DuraCloud
October 27, 2014 Contact: Michele Kimpton (mkimp...@duraspace.org) or Evelyn McLellan (eve...@artefactual.com) Read it online: bit.ly/ZTDufZ Open Source Preservation Solution—Run Archivematica 1.3.0 Locally or in DuraCloud Archivematica 1.3.0 Features Full DuraCloud Integration Winchester, MA Artefactual has announced the release of Archivematica 1.3.0 with full DuraCloud integration. Archivematica is an open source digital preservation system with a web-based dashboard for ingesting digital holdings and generating Archival Information Packages (AIPs). DuraCloud is an open source cloud-based archiving and preservation service platform that manages and preserves digital objects in secure, replicated storage. Archivematica 1.3.0 now features the ability to configure the storage option to deposit AIPs into DuraCloud archival cloud storage via the web-based dashboard. Institutions and organizations may now choose to implement the Archivematica open source preservation stack in-house, or to take advantage of the DuraCloud hosted service for long-term secure archival storage directly from their hosted Archivematica dashboard. Archivematica 1.3.0 is production-ready and now available for download here: https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Installation The key new feature in the Archivematica 1.3.0 release is the ability to manage all storage functionality in DuraCloud, specifically: •Ability to store Archival Information Packages (AIPs) in DuraCloud •Ability to store Dissemination Information Packages (DIPs) in DuraCloud •Ability to synchronize a local copy with a remote copy in DuraCloud “Working with Artefactual to integrate our two software platforms means that if you use Archivematica locally, you can now upload content into your DuraCloud account,” explained DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton, “or add the open source software to your in-house technology stack. Either way it provides Institutions with a complete end to end open source solution.” Evelyn McLellan, President of Artefactual systems: “Having both local and cloud-based storage options available to Archivematica users helps us to offer our communities additional ways to preserve and protect their digital holdings.” More Information about Archivematica and/or DuraCloud If your organization is interested in learning more about Archivematica (www.archivematica.org) and/or the DuraCloud (www.duracloud.org) service, please contact Michele Kimpton (mkimp...@duraspace.org) or Evelyn McLellan (eve...@artefactual.com), or complete the inquiry form at http://duracloud.org/archivematica. About Artefactual Systems Artefactual's mission is to provide the heritage community with vital expertise and technology in the domains of digital preservation and online access. We develop open-source software and promote open standards as the best means of enabling archives, libraries and museums to preserve and provide access to society's cultural assets. We are archivists, librarians, software developers, systems administrators and systems technicians, all working together to advance the capacity of heritage institutions to meet their mandates in a rapidly changing world. http://www.artefactual.com/. About DuraSpace DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve libraries, universities, research centers, for managing and preserving digital content. The organization’s open source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository application and the Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud, an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content. http://duraspace.org/.
[CODE4LIB] NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4 Training Videos and Web Seminar Recording
Oct. 17, 2014 Read it online: Videos: http://bit.ly/1wdF0WS; Web Seminar Recording: http://bit.ly/1sMydlP Learn More About Fedora 4 in New Videos and Web Seminar Recording Two Fedora 4 training videos are now available on YouTube that will provide you make implementation choices: • http://youtu.be/U9jaFM0Q2h0 • http://youtu.be/9wbt0sPR-4E These videos capture the introduction and a walkthrough of the most important Fedora 4 features from the first ever Fedora 4 training workshop held during the Washington DC Fedora User Group meeting on Oct. 7. Other topics include issues around migration from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4, and a discussion of their similarities and differences. Viewers will also learn about new opportunities for migrating from F3 to F4. Additional Fedora 4 training resources are available on the wiki: • https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Training If you would like to find out about how others are approaching Fedora 4 implementations you will be interested in the recent web seminar recording of “Fedora 4.0 in Action at The Art Institute of Chicago and University of California at San Diego (UCSD). This webinar provides a look into how Fedora 4.0 is enhancing the repository data at these institutions. • http://duraspace.org/hot-topics DuraSpace | Open technologies for durable digital content Webinar 1: Research Data Curation at UC San Diego: An Overview Tuesday, October 1, 2013 David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library; View on duraspace.org Preview by Yahoo
[CODE4LIB] The Archivematica + DuraCloud Preservation Service Beta Test
Oct. 13, 2014 Contact: Michele Kimpton (mkimp...@duraspace.org); Evelyn McLellan (eve...@artefactual.com) Read it online: http://bit.ly/1CdhUj9 The Archivematica + DuraCloud “Soup-to-Nuts” Preservation Service Beta Test The Archivematica + DuraCloud hosted service has launched a beta test with pilot partners that will be ongoing from October 2014 to January 2015. The organizations participating in the pilot are: Berea College (http://www.berea.edu/) The Huntington Library (http://huntington.org/) Illinois Wesleyan University (https://www.iwu.edu/) Kansas State University (http://ksu.edu/) North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: State Archive and State Library (http://www.ncdcr.gov/) Pepperdine University (http://www.pepperdine.edu/) Phillips Academy (http://www.andover.edu/) University of Texas at San Antonio (http://utsa.edu/) University of Washington (http://www.washington.edu/) Ensuring that robust Archivematica Archival Information Packages (AIPs) have a secure long-term home is the idea behind the new Archivematica + DuraCloud hosted service. The new integrated service is designed to provide users with a robust preservation workflow plus long-term archiving in a single hosted solution. The DuraCloud cloud-based archiving and preservation service platform manages and preserves digital objects. DuraCloud enables user management and preservation of content without locking into a single cloud provider. DuraCloud also features value-added services such as regular bit-level health checks for all content stored in DuraCloud. The platform is open-source and free to download, but also available as a hosted solution from DuraSpace. Archivematica is an open-source tool for ingesting digital objects and preparing them for long-term preservation. Archivematica accommodates a variety of OAIS-based digital curation workflows, and provides a flexible framework for normalizing ingested digital objects to durable, preservation-friendly formats. The system performs a series of preservation microservices and generates Archival Information Packages (AIPs) consisting of the ingested digital objects, any normalized preservation masters generated during processing, and detailed PREMIS metadata packaged into standard METS XML files. The powerful combined Archivematica + DuraCloud service meets all 21 aspects of managing and preserving digital objects identified by the IMLS funded white paper “From Theory to Action, which analyzes and compares digital preservation solutions for under-resourced institutions. The service will be launched to the general public early 2015, based on the completion of a successful pilot. More Information If your organization is interested in learning more about the new Archivematica + DuraCloud service please contact Michele Kimpton (mkimp...@duraspace.org), Evelyn McLellan (eve...@artefactual.com), or complete the inquiry form at http://duracloud.org/archivematica.
[CODE4LIB] REGISTER for Advanced DSpace Training
Sept. 17, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1qJsGgg Contact: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Register for Advanced DSpace Training In response to overwhelming community demand, we are happy to announce the dates for an in-person, 3-day Advanced DSpace Course in Austin October 22-24, 2014. The total cost of the course is being underwritten with generous support from the Texas Digital Library and DuraSpace. As a result, the registration fee for the course for DuraSpace Members is only $250 and $500 for Non-Members (meals and lodging not included). Seating will be limited to 20 participants. Course Overview The three-day Advanced DSpace course provides instruction on advanced features and customizations in DSpace 4.2. Topics covered will include: Configuration * Themes and Aspects * Emails * Internationalization * Authentication * Media Filters * Curation Tasks * Submission Workflows * Controlled Vocabularies * Discovery, Search, and Browse * Statistics * Server Configuration Content Transmission * OAI protocols and harvesting * RESTSubmission/Dissemination Packages * AIP backup and restore * SWORD servers and clients * Batch Imports XMLUI Theming * Creating a new theme * Colors, Fonts, and Layouts with CSS * Presentation and Interaction For more information or to register visit here. If you have any questions please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org.
[CODE4LIB] NOW AVAILABLE: The April-June 2014 Quarterly Report from Fedora
Sept. 16, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/Xvy9up Contact: David Wilcox dwil...@duraspace.org From The Fedora Steering Group The Quarterly Report from Fedora April-June 2014 Fedora Development - In the past quarter, the development team released one Alpha and three Beta releases of Fedora 4; detailed release notes are here: * Fedora 4.0 Alpha 5 Release Notes * Fedora 4.0 Beta 1 Release Notes * Fedora 4.0 Beta 2 Release Notes * Fedora 4.0 Beta 3 Release Notes These four releases bring us much closer to the Fedora 4.0 production release. Features of note include enhanced object and datastream versioning, improved support for linked data, a XACML authorization implementation, REST-API improvements, transparent file system export, and many other improvements. In addition to these features, a great deal of effort has been put into improving the test coverage and overall performance of Fedora 4. We encourage the community to download and install Fedora 4 (a one-click installer is available) and test out the new features. Fedora 4.0 is only the first release in the 4.x line - a number of features, including support for Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 migrations, are planned for subsequent 4.x releases. While releasing Fedora 4.0 into production is our top development priority, we must also start scheduling the 2015 January to June block of code sprints to work on the next 4.x release. Please consider contributing developer time to these sprints by contacting Andrew Woods (awo...@duraspace.org), the Fedora Technical Lead. Fundraising We are in the midst of our annual membership campaign, which runs from early May until the end of October. The annual membership goal for 2014 is $500,000, and as of this report we have raised $478,000. The Fedora project has a total of 51 members; this includes 13 new members and 38 renewals from last year's members. The Fedora Product Manager will continue to coordinate with members of the Fedora Steering Group to expand the pool of DuraSpace members supporting the Fedora project to reach the annual funding target for 2014. Community Engagement and Outreach In the past quarter, developers have continued to hold daily meetings in conjunction with development sprints, as well as weekly Fedora committer calls attended by the broader community. In June, the Fedora community came together for Open Repositories in Helsinki, Finland. Fedora featured prominently at the conference, with workshops, presentations, user group sessions, and the official announcement of Fedora 4.0 Beta. Fedora 4 Training As we approach the production release of Fedora 4.0, we expect members of the Fedora community to work toward deploying Fedora 4 locally. Consequently, many community members have raised the issue of training as a priority. In response to this demand, three Fedora 4 training workshops have been scheduled alongside events in October: * DC Fedora User Group Meeting (Oct. 6-7) * Islandora Camp Colorado (Oct. 16) * eResearch Australasia (Oct. 31) In preparation for these events, the Fedora Product Manager and Technical Lead have been building reusable training modules for a one-day curriculum. These training modules will serve as a basis for expanding to longer, more in-depth training workshops in 2015. Upcoming Conferences In September, Fedora will be featured in presentations at The Future of Information Infrastructure and PASIG in Karlsruhe, Germany, immediately followed by a Fedora User Group meeting. Members of the Fedora Leadership Group, along with the Fedora Product Manager, will also be present at the 4th RDA Plenary in Amsterdam to discuss the project with the research data community.
[CODE4LIB] REGISTER: VIVO Project to Host Hackathon at Cornell, Oct. 13-15
Sept. 10, 2014 Contact: Layne Johnson, VIVO Project Director ljohn...@duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/1lThQTj REGISTER: VIVO Project Hackathon at Cornell University, Oct. 13-15 The VIVO Project is hosting a hackathon event on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York from October 13-15. This event builds on the March, 2014 hackathon held in conjunction with the VIVO I-Fest at Duke University, and is open to anyone interested in actively participating in improving some aspect of the VIVO software, ontology, documentation, testing, or related applications and tools. Chris Barnes and Ted Lawless, co-leads of the VIVO Apps Tools working group, will be leading the event on-site, with logistics coordinated by the Cornell VIVO team. REGISTER: VIVO Project to Host Hackathon at Cornell, Oct. 13-15 | DuraSpace REGISTER: VIVO Project to Host Hackathon at Cornell, Oc... From Layne Johnson, VIVO Project Director Please Note: If you plan to attend the Hackathon please make your hotel reservations ASAP—the $129 rate at the Ithaca ... View on bit.ly Preview by Yahoo
[CODE4LIB] SOFTWARE RELEASE: Introducing Fedora 4.0 Beta 3
Sept. 4, 2014 Contact: David Wilcox dwil...@duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/1uBPJYE Introducing Fedora 4.0 Beta 3 Winchester, MA DuraSpace and the Fedora community of users and developers are pleased to announce that the Fedora 4.0 platform is one step closer to a full production version of the software with the release of Fedora 4.0 Beta 3. The Fedora 4.0 feature setis available for testing with this release, including a human-readable file system export, clustering for high-availability use cases, and support for millions of objects. This release is part of a broad initiative to make significant changes to the robust Fedora framework for building digital repositories to serve the community for the next decade. Full release notes are available, and highlights include: - Transparent JCR/XML file system export - Clustering support for high-availability use cases - Demonstrated performance: 10 million objects via REST-API, 16 million via federation - Reviewed and published Fedora 4 RDF ontology Download Fedora 4.3 Beta here. Get in Here We are making progress towards completing acceptance tests, but we still need to test the remaining features before we can release the production version of Fedora 4.0. Please take some time to install the Fedora 4.0 Beta(or just use the one-click-run application), test out some features, and submit your results. Three Beta Pilot projectsare underway. These projects will test a number of Fedora 4.0 features in a production-like environment over the course of a few months. Each of these projects will be showcased in a short webinar series this Fall - details will be available soon. Beta Pilot Projects represent a larger commitment of time and resources than acceptance tests, but they also present an opportunity to test real institutional use cases with Fedora 4.0, with added support from DuraSpace and the Fedora community. If your institution is interested in participating, please contact David Wilcox dwil...@duraspace.org. How Does DuraSpace Help? DuraSpace works collaboratively with organizations that use Fedora to advance the design, development and sustainability of the project. As a non-profit, DuraSpace provides business support services that include technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration. About Fedora Fedora is an open source project that provides 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.
[CODE4LIB] TRAINING: Fedora 4 Training Events in October
Aug. 19, 2014 Contact: David Wilcox dwil...@duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/1lf3sF4 Fedora 4 Training Events in October Locations Set for Fall Fedora 4.0 Training Events: Karlsruhe, Germany, Washington, DC, Denver, CO, and Melbourne, AU In response to community requests for more Fedora 4.0 training opportunities the Fedora Project is pleased to announce that four separate face-to-face sessions in four locations have been scheduled for October 2014. Planning and curriculum development for Fedora 4 training is under way for the following events: * Fedora User Group Meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany ---Fedora User Group meeting immediately following the PASIG Meeting (Sept. 19) ---REGISTER: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PHTnvdKBwP7UC_PoyikwSvWKyCXleU9byNc4V3QxKAk/viewform * DC Fedora User Group/Fedora 4 Training (Oct. 6-7) ---REGISTER: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lQjvTToYwO4pJAmiSvtMm13YgXl2wGb5_JiCqtR-d-0/viewform * Fedora 4 Training at Islandora Camp Colorado (Oct. 16) ---In conjunction with Islandora Camp (Oct. 13-16) ---REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fedora-4-training-tickets-12414567305 * Fedora 4 Down Under ---in conjunction with eResearch Australasia (Oct. 27-31) ---'Fedora 4 Down Under' workshop (Oct. 31) ---REGISTER: http://conference.eresearch.edu.au/eres2014/registration/ Registration for the Washington, DC and Denver, CO events is free, while the workshop in Melbourne, AU costs $50 (generously subsidized by the University of New South Wales - the normal rate charged by the conference is $185). Full agendas will be available as they are completed. General topics will include: --Fedora 4 feature overview --Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 migration planning --New opportunities for data modelling, metadata enhancement, and linked open data in Fedora 4 --Getting started as a Fedora 4 developer Fedora User Group Meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany FIZ Karlsruhe Friday, September 19, 2014 Karlsruhe, Germany This Fedora User Group meeting will be held immediately following the PASIG Meeting. All Fedora users, including anyone thinking about adopting Fedora, are encouraged to attend. The meeting will include a mix of project updates from the community and presentations on Fedora 4 from members of DuraSpace and the Fedora Steering Group. This is a community-driven event, so attendees are encouraged to give short (5 minutes) or long (15-20 minutes) presentations on project updates, new initiatives, or other topics of interest. This is a great opportunity to find out what other community members are working on and engage with potential collaborators. The agenda will be finalized over the next few weeks based on community submissions and suggested topics. Space is limited, so please register in advance to reserve your seat. Don't forget to sign up for a presentation and suggest topics you'd like to discuss or learn about. Fedora 4.0 Training at the DC Fedora User Group Meeting National Library of Medicine Tuesday, October 7, 2014 Washington, DC Following the DC Fedora User Group meeting, Fedora Product Manager David Wilcox and Technical Lead Andrew Woods will deliver this full-day Fedora 4 training workshop. It is aimed at repository managers and developers; both current Fedora implementers and those interested in adopting Fedora are encouraged to attend. Attendees will learn how to get up and running with the new version of Fedora, how to take advantage of new features, and how to plan for a migration from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4. The workshop will include an overview of new features and improvements over previous versions of Fedora, along with instructions on how to use some of these new features. Planning migrations from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 will also be discussed, including new opportunities for data modelling, metadata enhancement, and leveraging Linked Open Data capabilities. A detailed agenda will be posted in the next few weeks. Registration for the Fedora 4 training workshop and the DC Fedora User Group meeting is open now. Space is limited, so register soon! Fedora 4 Training Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Thursday, October 16, 2014 from 9:00AM to 5:00PM (MDT) Denver, CO This full-day Fedora 4 training workshop, delivered by Fedora Technical Lead Andrew Woods, will provide attendees with the opportunity to learn about and discuss the features available in the upcoming Fedora 4 production release. It is aimed at repository managers and developers; both current Fedora implementers and those interested in adopting Fedora are encouraged to attend. The workshop will begin with a general overview of Fedora 4, including new features and improvements over previous versions. Andrew will also discuss the important topic of migration planning; including new opportunities for data modelling, metadata enhancement, and leveraging Linked Open Data capabilities. Given the importance of popular
[CODE4LIB] REMINDER: Expressions of Interest in Hosting OR2016 Due by Aug. 24
Aug. 14, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1rE2cKe CALL for Expressions of Interest in Hosting the Annual Open Repositories Conference, 2016 The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest from candidate host organizations for the 2016 Open Repositories Annual Conference. Proposals from all geographic areas will be given consideration. Important dates The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest to host the OR2016 conference until August 24th 2014. Shortlisted sites will be notified before the end of September 2014. Background Candidate institutions must have the ability to host a four-day conference of approximately 300-500 attendees (OR2014 held recently in Helsinki, Finland drew more than 450 people). This includes appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and transportation, as well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services (food services, internet services, and conference social events; conference web site; management of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and their local arrangements committee must have the means to support the costs of producing the conference through attendee registration and independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is provided in the Open Repositories Conference Handbook on the Open Repositories wiki. Expressions of Interest Guidelines Organisations interested in proposing to host the OR2016 conference should follow the steps listed below: 1. Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by August 24th, 2014. Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Carol Minton Morris cmmor...@duraspace.org. 2. As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open Repositories Conference Handbook which offer guidelines for organizing an Open Repositories conference. Candidate institutions should pay particular attention to the pages listed at Preparing a bid before submitting an EoI. 3. The EoI must include: • the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid) • an email address as a first point of contact • the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph describing • the local amenities that would be available to delegates, including its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport 4. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from additional reviewers. Following the review, one or more institutions will be invited to submit a detailed proposal. 5. Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued before the end of September 2014; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be notified at that time. The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid. The OR Steering Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals are being prepared. About Open Repositories Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please visit the OR home page: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/. Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the OR Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories. Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through your communities. Thank you! The Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee
[CODE4LIB] DuraSpace and Artefactual Partner to Offer New Hosted Service
Contact: Michele Kimpton mkimp...@duraspace.org, Evelyn McLellan eve...@artefactual.com Read it online: http://bit.ly/1srx8y4 DuraSpace and Artefactual Partner to Offer New Hosted Service New End-to-End Digital Preservation Service is Designed for Universities, Archives and Cultural Heritage Organizations Winchester, MA Universities, archives and cultural heritage organizations want it all when it comes to ensuring that their digital holdings remain both safe and accessible for future generations. Archivematica, a preservation workflow tool designed by Artefactual, and DuraCloud, an archival cloud storage and preservation service from DuraSpace, are pleased to announce that they have teamed up to provide just that–an end-to-end open-source digital preservation solution based on Archivematica and DuraCloud that will set the standard for one-stop durable, safe, and cost effective long-term preservation and storage. We are extremely enthusiastic about our new strategic partnership with Artefactual Systems,” said DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton. “Artefactual are experts in archiving digital material and we are experts in managing open source projects and running software in cloud infrastructure. With our teams working together we can achieve a truly robust, open, easy to use digital archiving solution I think the community will be excited about. Archivematica and DuraCloud are unique among long-term preservation and storage solutions. They are both built on open-source software which is documented and freely available. Users can download their data at any point. This means that users of the new service do not have to worry about data lock-in and the service can be run locally at any time. AVPreserve has called DuraCloud “unique among the services covered” in their Cloud Storage Vendor Profiles series [1] because users can download the entirety of data at any point and/or host the system locally without additional cost.[2] The launch of an Archivematica DuraCloud hosted solution is a timely addition to the digital preservation community, offering a configurable preservation planning option at the intersection of OAIS-based workflows (Archivematica) and archival storage services (DuraCloud),” said Nancy McGovern, Director of DPM Workshops. “When providers choose collaboration over competition, the gains to our community can be significant. A partnership like this that brings together open-source providers each with a solid track record promises to result in just that kind of benefit. Users of the service will have access to a robust suite of digital preservation functions via the online dashboard. Archivematica is well known for its ability to produce highly standardized and interoperable Archival Information Packages; these packages will automatically be placed into DuraCloud for long-term secure archival storage. Some of the key features of Archivematica include assigning permanent identifiers and checksums, virus checking, identifying and validating file formats, extracting technical metadata, normalizing files to preservation-friendly formats, and generating detailed PREMIS metadata to facilitate inter-repository data exchange. Key features of DuraCloud include automated health checking of the content, reporting, and the choice to store multiple copies at multiple storage providers. If your organization is interested in learning more about this offering please contact Michele Kimpton (mkimp...@duraspace.org) or Evelyn McLellan (eve...@artefactual.com), or complete the inquiry form at http://duracloud.org/archivematica About DuraSpace DuraCloud (http://duracloud.org) is a service from DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), 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 (DSpace, Fedora, VIVO) and creating services (DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect) 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. About Artefactual Systems Artefactual's (http://artefactual.com) mission is to provide the heritage community with vital expertise and technology in the domains of digital preservation and online access. We develop open-source software (Archivematicaand AtoM) and promote open standards as the best means of enabling archives, libraries and museums to preserve and provide access to society's cultural assets. We are archivists, librarians, software developers, systems administrators and systems technicians, all working together to advance the capacity of heritage institutions to meet their mandates in a rapidly changing world. [1] Cloud Storage Vendor Profiles:
[CODE4LIB] FEEDBACK REQUESTED: Planning a Fedora User Group Meeting in Karlsruhe
Aug. 4, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1tn8AJk Hello, The Fedora community is gauging interest in hosting a full-day Fedora User Group meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany on September 19, 2014, immediately following the PASIG conference (September 16-18). All users of Fedora, the open source, flexible and extensible digital repository platform, including anyone thinking about adopting Fedora, are encouraged to plan on attending. The meeting will be held at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, and registration will be free. This will be an informal event that will give Fedora community members an opportunity to meet each other in person, discuss local projects and use cases, and find potential collaborators. Attendees are encouraged to give short (5 minutes) or long (15-20 minutes) project updates. Members of DuraSpace and the Fedora Steering Group will also be present to provide an update on the latest Fedora 4 developments and discuss opportunities for engagement with the project. Please indicate your interest in attending the Fedora User Group meeting in Karlsruhe by contacting David Wilcox dwil...@fedora-commons.org with a +1 (and any additional comments you may have). When it is clear there is sufficient interest in the event, we will send out additional details and registration information. Thank you!
[CODE4LIB] Managing Digital Collections Survey Results Summary [correct link]
Hi Everyone, Here is the correct link for Managing Digital Collections Survey Results Summary: Managing Digital Collections Survey Results Summary | DuraSpace All the best, Carol Managing Digital Collections Survey Results Summary | DuraSpace About the Report View on duraspace.org Preview by Yahoo
[CODE4LIB] Managing Digital Collections Survey Results Summary
Hi Everyone, How are organizations of various sizes and stripes handling digital content creation, management, and preservation activities? Beginning in December 2013, DuraSpace began collaborating with The Bishoff Group in order to gain a better understanding of the status of digital content creation, management, and preservation activities underway in the non-ARL academic library community, as well as to determine how DuraSpace’s open source projects and services could (better) meet the needs of this community. The Managing Digital Collections Survey Results Summary gathers data from 145 participating institutions across all types of academic libraries comprising two- and four-year colleges, masters, and doctorate granting universities who weighed-in on a variety of topics and issues related to digital content creation, management, and preservation. Read the Managing Digital Collections Survey Results Summary here. All the best, Carol
[CODE4LIB] NOW AVAILABLE: VIVO Release 1.7
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 2, 2014 Contact: Layne Johnson ljohn...@duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/1sXbXHE VIVO Release 1.7 is Now Available! Key Features Include Enhanced ORCID Functionality and Simplified Data Handling Winchester, MA The VIVO Project is pleased to announce the release of VIVO 1.7. The software can be installed by downloading either a zip or tar.gz file located on the download page at VIVOweb.org and deploying it to your web server for production use. Installation Instructions and an Upgrade Guide v1.6 to 1.7 are also available. VIVO is a DuraSpace project. The VIVO 1.7 release combines new features with improvements to existing features and services and continues to leverage the VIVO-Integrated Semantic Framework (VIVO-ISF) ontology introduced in VIVO 1.6. No data migration or changes to local data ingest procedures, visualization, or analysis tools drawing directly on VIVO data will be required to upgrade to VIVO 1.7. VIVO 1.7 notably includes the results of an ORCID Adoption and Integration Grant to support the creation and verification of ORCID iDs. VIVO now offers the opportunity for a researcher to add and/or confirm his or her global, unique researcher identifier directly with ORCID without the necessity of applying through other channels and re-typing the 16-digit ORCID identifier. We anticipate that this facility will help promote ORCID iDs more widely and expand adoption for the benefit of the entire research community. VIVO 1.7 also incorporates several updates to key software libraries in VIVO, including the Apache Jena libraries that provide the default VIVO triple store from Jena 2.6.4 to Jena 2.10.1. This Jena upgrade does require existing VIVO sites to run an automated migration procedure for user accounts prior to upgrading VIVO itself. The Apache Solr search library used by VIVO has been updated to Solr 4.7.2 and the programming interface to Solr has been modularized to allow substitution of alternative search indexing libraries to benefit from specific desired features. The SPARQL web services introduced in VIVO 1.6 have been extended to support full read-write capability and content negotiation through a single interface. The ability to export or dump the entire VIVO knowledge base for analysis by external tools has also been improved to scale better with triple store size, as has the ability to request lists of RDF by type to facilitate linked data applications. The VIVO 1.7 release also reflects feedback from the VIVO Leadership Group requesting a predictable pattern of one minor release and one major release each year. We anticipate releases in late spring/early summer and again in late fall to help adopters plan for release schedules and new features, and anticipate any changes that may affect local data ingest processes, visualizations, reporting, and/or data analysis. Learn More at the VIVO Conference There’s still time to register for the upcoming VIVO Conference that will be held in Austin, TX August 6-8, 2014. The program is designed to help you harness the full potential of research networking, discovery, and open research. • Program available here • Register here How Does DuraSpace Help? VIVO is a DuraSpace project. The DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) organization is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access and discovery of digital data. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, Committed to our digital future. DuraSpace works collaboratively with organizations that use VIVO to advance the design, development and sustainability of the project. As a non-profit, DuraSpace provides technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships, and administration.
[CODE4LIB] CALL for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1rE2cKe CALL for Expressions of Interest in Hosting the Annual Open Repositories Conference, 2016 The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest from candidate host organizations for the 2016 Open Repositories Annual Conference. Proposals from all geographic areas will be given consideration. Important dates The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest to host the OR2016 conference until August 24th 2014. Shortlisted sites will be notified before the end of September 2014. Background Candidate institutions must have the ability to host a four-day conference of approximately 300-500 attendees (OR2014 held recently in Helsinki, Finland drew more than 450 people). This includes appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and transportation, as well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services (food services, internet services, and conference social events; conference web site; management of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and their local arrangements committee must have the means to support the costs of producing the conference through attendee registration and independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is provided in the Open Repositories Conference Handbook on the Open Repositories wiki. Expressions of Interest Guidelines Organisations interested in proposing to host the OR2016 conference should follow the steps listed below: 1. Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by August 24th, 2014. Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Carol Minton Morris cmmor...@duraspace.org. 2. As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open Repositories Conference Handbook which offer guidelines for organizing an Open Repositories conference. Candidate institutions should pay particular attention to the pages listed at Preparing a bid before submitting an EoI. 3. The EoI must include: • the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid) • an email address as a first point of contact • the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph describing • the local amenities that would be available to delegates, including its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport 4. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from additional reviewers. Following the review, one or more institutions will be invited to submit a detailed proposal. 5. Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued before the end of September 2014; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be notified at that time. The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid. The OR Steering Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals are being prepared. About Open Repositories Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please visit the OR home page: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/. Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the OR Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories. Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through your communities. Thank you! The Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee
[CODE4LIB] DuraSpace job opportunities
Open positions at DuraSpace include a full-time DevOps Engineer/Systems Administrator and a Front-end Drupal 7 Developer subcontractor position. Jobs | DuraSpace Jobs | DuraSpace DevOps Engineer / Systems Administrator View on duraspace.org Preview by Yahoo DuraSpace (duraspace.org) is a not for profit 501(c)3 software company. We work with academic and cultural heritage institutions around the world to develop and deploy open source software solutions for managing and providing long term access to their digital cultural materials. Our mission is to provide leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital content. We work with a community of vibrant open source developers from all over the world. We offer a number of services to our community based on our open source technologies to help them advance their goals of making materials persistent and available to all. Find out more!
[CODE4LIB] NEWS RELEASE: Fedora 4.0 Beta is Now Available!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 6, 2014 Contact: David Wilcox dwil...@duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/1kHhegM Fedora 4.0 Beta is Now Available! Fedora 4.0 is ready for the big repository challenges: support for large files; flexible storage options; features to accommodate research data management; native linked open data capabilities and an improved platform for developer interaction Winchester, MA DuraSpace and the Fedora community of users and developers are pleased to announce the release of Fedora 4.0 Betain conjunction with this year’s Open Repositoriesconference in Helsinki, Finland (June 9-13, 2014). Fedora 4.0 Beta is a stable platform for testing the full Fedora 4.0 feature set, which will not change between the Beta and the full production release planned for later this year. Further releases in the Fedora 4.x line will add more exciting new features based on the project roadmap. This release, managed by Michael Durbin at the University of Virginia, is the result of a focused and highly collaborative 2-year community effort to make long overdue changes to the robust Fedora framework for building digital repositories. Fedora 4.0 is designed to serve the community for the next decade. Download Fedora 4.0 Beta here. Members of the Fedora community, stewarded by DuraSpace, led planning and development in order to arrive at the launch of Fedora 4.0 after 29 rapid prototyping Alphaand Betadevelopment “sprints”. Each sprint was designed to address the top priorities expressed by the international community that include better performance and scalability, flexible storage options, features to accommodate research data management, native support for linked open data, and an improved platform for developers. Fedora 4.0 at Open RepositoriesThose attending this year’s Open Repositories conference will have several opportunities to learn more about Fedora 4 and engage with the development team. Andrew Woods, the Fedora Tech Lead, will be hosting an open Fedora committers meetingon June 9. Current Fedora developers as well as those interested in engaging with project development are encouraged to attend. Following the DuraSpace plenary on June 12, the Fedora Steering Group will host an open discussion session to kick off the Fedora interest group track. On June 13, David Wilcox, the Fedora Product Manager, and Andrew Woods will offer a deep dive into Fedora 4 featuresand discuss the roadmap for future releases. A full schedule of all Fedora-related sessions is available online, or stop by the DuraSpace table at Open Repositories to find out more about Fedora 4.0. How Does DuraSpace Help? DuraSpace works collaboratively with organizations that use Fedora to advance the design, development and sustainability of the project. As a non-profit, DuraSpace provides business support services that include technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration. About Fedora Fedora is an open source project that provides 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.
[CODE4LIB] NEWS RELEASE OR2014 Update: Scholarship Programme Recipients Selected
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1rGGsRG OR2014 Update: Scholarship Programme Recipients Selected Helsinki, FI Leading up to the kick-off of the Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories (#OR2014) next week, the Open Repositories Steering Committee is pleased to announce that recipients of the 2014 Open Repositories Pilot Scholarship Programme have been selected. The Pilot Scholarship Programme is providing financial support for three first-time delegates to attend this year's conference in Helsinki, June 9-13. The recipients, who are from Estonia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, were among a strong pool of applicants. The Open Repositories Steering Committee instituted the Scholarship Programme to encourage participation by librarians, repository managers, developers and researchers in digital libraries and related fields, who might not otherwise have the resources to attend Open Repositories. The Scholarship Programme covers the cost of full registration, including the conference dinner. We look forward to welcoming the scholarship recipients, and all delegates, to Helsinki next week.
[CODE4LIB] NEWS RELEASE OR2014 Updates: Developer Challenge and Workshop Registration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 29, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1mqhL4W OR2014 Updates: Developer Challenge and Workshop Registration Helsinki, FI Breaking news from the upcoming Open Repositories Conference June 9-13 includes a look at how to participate in this year’s Developer Challenge for software developers, and registration information for pre-conference Workshops, Tutorials and Meetings. Developer Challenge The goal of the Developer Challenge at Open Repositories is to provide growth opportunities for software developers who attend, and show support and appreciation by providing them with an event that is both fulfilling and also valuable for the Open Repositories community. Read the full Developer Challenge description here. The Developer Challenge showcases new and exciting technology ideas that have the potential to enhance the richness of a repository ecosystem. At this year's conference Developer Challenge participants will: Build or enhance a repository ecosystem, in line with this year’s conference themes that include: • Unconventional approaches to repository-like services • Interconnection between publishers and repositories • Researcher-centered design for scholarly workflows • Adaptations to support curation lifecycle management, e.g., for research data • Real-world scalability and performance stories: working at web-scale, with big data for global usage • Requirements for holding restricted or classified data in repositories • Infrastructure to accommodate national and international mandates for data management and open access • Positioning repositories closer to (local, consortial, or cloud-based) cyberinfrastructure for data processing • Leveraging connections to external services including: • Remote identifier services (e.g., DOI, ORCID) • (Re-)using repository data/metadata in new and unexpected ways, including integrated discovery • Scholarly social media services, such as for annotation, review, comment, reputation, citation, and altmetrics • CRIS and research management systems • Digital preservation tools, services infrastructure • Community and sustainability in an open world Specific challenges/prizes will be offered by sponsors. Information about these challenges will be added here as they are available. Come up with an idea, or, pick up one of the other ideas that someone has proposed and go for it if you are a developer. If you're not a developer propose an idea anyway: • Tweet your idea with the hashtag #OR2014Idea; • Submit your idea using this form on the Open Repositories 2014 website, or; • Email your idea to the Dev Challenge team through OR2014 mail box: or-2...@helsinki.fi Developers will be encouraged to work on all the ideas. You can also join the team if you wish to help with documentation and presentation of the idea. Registration for pre-conference Workshops, Tutorials and Meetings NOW OPEN In addition to the Developer Challenge, the pre-conference sessions of Open Repositories 2014 will be held at the University of Helsinki main campus area and will include as many as 19 workshops, tutorials or meetings on a large variety of topics. It is important that you register for any of these events that you will attend. There are separate registration forms for the morning, afternoon and evening sessions below: • Registration form for morning sessions here. • Registration form for afternoon sessions here. • Registration form for evening sessions E-lomake - Registration: Pre-conference workshops at Open Repositories 2014 (Monday, June 9, 2014), evening 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM E-lomake - Registration: Pre-conference workshops at Op... View on elomake.helsinki.fi Preview by Yahoo
[CODE4LIB] AVAILABLE: Fedora 4 Feature Deep Dives–Research Data and Preservation Support
Dear Community, As excitement builds around the upcoming open source release of the beta version of the redesigned Fedora 4 at Open Repositories 2014, Fedora 4 Deep Dive articles provide a closer look at software features and how they answer key community use cases that have driven development. The first two take a look at Fedora 4 for Research Data and Preservation Support. Stay tuned for more Fedora 4 Deep Dives, and please feel free to share these articles with colleagues. Thank you! --- Fedora 4 Deep Dive Number One: Support for Research Data Research data support is built into Fedora 4 Fedora 4 allows repository managers to support any type of content and model it however they wish. Multiple research data files can be grouped together with a single metadata record, or they can be distributed as separate objects, each with its own metadata. These separate objects can then be associated with any number of other objects within the repository, allowing for maximum flexibility. READ MORE HERE Fedora 4 Deep Dive Number Two: Support for Preservation Designed specifically for the preservation of digital assets–one of the primary Fedora 4 use cases Fedora 4 provides a strong set of features to support durable storage. Policy-driven storage allows administrators to define ingest rules such that files of different types (e.g. images, videos) get routed to different back-end stores. Checksums can then be calculated when assets are added to the repository, and fixity checks can be configured to run against these checksums on a regular basis. Fedora 4 also provides a means to backup the entire repository and restore everything, including rebuilding an external search index and/or triplestore, in case of a problem. For extremely large repositories (e.g. multi-petabyte datastores) a full repository backup and restore may take a very long time to execute, so Fedora provides object and tree-level import and export capabilities to selectively restore portions of the repository. Fedora 4 Deep Dive Number Two: Support for Preservation | DuraSpace Fedora 4 Deep Dive Number Two: Support for Preservati... The New Streamlined and Strong Flexible Extensible Durable Object Repository Architecture is designed to support preservation of digital assets–one of the... View on duraspace.org Preview by Yahoo
[CODE4LIB] NOW AVAILABLE: Fifth Alpha Release of Fedora 4
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1koK2tg On the Way to Beta: Fifth Alpha Release of Fedora 4 Winchester, MA The Fedora 4 team is proud to announce the fifth Alpha release of Fedora 4. In the continuing effort to provide rapid access to the quickly growing Fedora 4 feature set, this Alpha release is one of several leading up to the feature-complete Fedora 4 Beta release. Available from the GitHub release[1] * Fedora 4 Alpha 5 One-Click Run [2] * Fedora 4 Alpha 5 web application[3] * Fedora 4 Alpha 5 web application with authorization[4] * Fedora 4 Alpha 5 JMS indexer webapp[5] * Features Versioning This release enhanced the object and datastream versioning capability[6] in two fundamental ways. Specifically, whereas the creation of new versions was previously supported, this release added the logical corollary capability of rolling back to or reverting[7] to a previous version. Also, the deletion[8] of previous versions is now supported. Triplestore While the internal search index within Fedora 4 natively supports the ability to reindex on startup, the recommended pattern[9] for exposing a search experience to repository users did not support the ability to reindex the external Solr or triplestore indices prior to this release. This release introduced an HTTP endpoint[10] for triggering the reindex of external indices for: * the entire repository * a tree of resources within the repository, or * a single repository resource Beyond reindexing, this release also demonstrated the configuration[11] where there are more than one Fedora 4 repositories all feeding events into a single external triplestore. Linked data In the on-going effort to expose repository resources in a standardized, linked-data friendly manner, Fedora 4 continues to keep in step with the maturing Linked Data Platform (LDP) draft specification[12]. Support for appropriate HTTP request headers which allow the user to indicate a preference for the comprehensiveness of triples found in responses was added. Likewise, appropriate HTTP response headers were added that specify paging[13] information and relationships between parent and child resources in an LDP fashion. Performance Tests were performed this release focused on the determination of whether there is an impact on object creation speeds with the increase in the number of child resources (object or datastream) under a single parent resource. These tests were run with multiple backend storage configurations to additionally assess what, if any, factor the storage backend plays into performance trends. Thirty thousand objects (first with 1 KB datastreams, then with 2 MB datastreams) were created at the top level of the repository and individually timed using the following backends: * LevelDB * RAM * File Although a slight up-tick in per object slowdown was indicated during the 2-MB tests, the trend was not absolutely conclusive. Further tests will be repeated with a greater number of objects. The test results can be found on the wiki[14]. Test Coverage Having a comprehensive suite of unit and integration tests affords the Fedora 4 code-base with greater resilience to rippling bugs, demonstrations of expected usage patterns of the APIs and components, as well as enables architectural refactoring to occur with less risk. A focus of this release was to increase our test coverage[15]. The following are the code coverage statistics at the end of this release. * Unit tests: 73.1% * Integration tests: 71.7% * Overall coverage: 86.0% Housekeeping Several feature enhancements and bugs were addressed during this release. Bug fixes and application polishing included: * Added resource locking[16] for concurrent requests on same resource(s) * Locking is available at single node and hierarchy tree levels * Enhanced pluggability of external/internal identifier mappings * Created a utility[17] for uploading a sample dataset to a running Fedora 4 repository * Updated jms-indexer-pluggable integration tests to deploy Fedora webapp in addition to triplestore and indexer webapp * Enhanced REST-API to return timestamp when creating objects and datastreams * Improved HTTP caching headers * Corrected multiple HTTP response codes * Fixed authorization bug which prevented users with both reader and writer roles from reading a resource * Fixed benchtool bug which prevented an equal number of HTTP client threads from being created to support the num threads option References [1] https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/tag/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-5 [2] https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/download/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-5/fcrepo-webapp-4.0.0-alpha-5-jetty-console.war [3]
[CODE4LIB] OR2014 Update: Erin McKiernan to be Keynote Speaker, Conference Program Available, REGISTER NOW!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 14, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/Q6uaB5 Erin McKiernan to be Keynote Speaker, Conference Program Available, REGISTER NOW! Helsinki, FI The 9th International Conference on Open Repositories (#OR2014) to be held June 9-13, 2014 is fast-approaching. Exciting program details have been announced by conference organizers. ERIN MCKIERNAN WILL BE THE OR2014 KEYNOTE SPEAKER We are delighted to announce that the opening keynote this year will be Dr. Erin McKiernan. Erin McKiernan is a Researcher in Medical Sciences at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. Her research involves the integration of experimental and computational approaches to solve diverse problems in epidemiology, physiology, and neuroscience. She is an advocate for open access, open data, and open source. She received her Ph.D. in Physiological Sciences in 2010 from the University of Arizona. She has written about open access for international media outlets such as The Conversation, and blogs about her experiences with open science at http://emckiernan.wordpress.com. You can follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/emckiernan13. MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM AVAILABLE A complete overview of OR2014 including times and locations for workshops, main conference presentations, panels, developer challenge, 24/7s and minute madness poster session is available online: https://www.conftool.com/or2014/sessions.php. Click on any day or session to see all scheduled talks. From the session view you can see related abstracts. NOW IT'S TIME TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOW EARLY REGISTRATION PRICES–UNTIL MAY 4! Please register for OR2014 as soon as possible using this online form; the early bird rate ends on May 4. All reservations should be made on the same registration form, including the social program and all the items that are included in the registration fee. If you have any questions concerning the registration form or procedure, please contact TAVI Congress Bureau by e-mail at or-2014[AT]tavicon.fi or by telephone: +358 3 233 0430, Ms Auri Ollanketo (Project Manager).
[CODE4LIB] Fedora 4 Call to Action–Test Your Favorite Feature!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1hUQw2G Fedora 4 Call to Action–Test Your Favorite Feature! Winchester, MA A Fedora 4.0 beta will be released in time for Open Repositories 2014. The full list of features to be included in the 4.0 beta and the release is available here. One of the primary goals of Fedora 4 is to produce stable, production-ready software that can be used by the entire repository community. The objective of the 4.0 release is to give the development team an opportunity to receive feedback from early adopters and improve the stability of the software before recommending it for existing Fedora 3 repositories. To this end, the initial Fedora 4.0 release is targeted at new installations, not migrations from existing Fedora installations. There are a number of desirable features, including support for migrations from earlier versions of Fedora, that are not scheduled to appear in the 4.0 release. Instead, these features will be scheduled, based on priority and available development resources, for upcoming releases in the 4.x line. Migration support is a particularly important feature, so this is likely to be included in the 4.1 release. All planned features, along with their associated use cases, can be found on the wiki. The timeline for the 4.0 release, along with further releases in the 4.x line, is subject to the level of community engagement. Fedora 4 is designed, developed, tested, and documented entirely based on community contributions. For Fedora 4 to be a successful project these contributions need to continue. There are at least three ways to contribute: Acceptance Testing Fedora 4.0 features are tied to use cases submitted by members of the community. Once a use case is considered to be satisfied by the development team, it goes back to the community for acceptance testing. No use case or feature is considered complete until it has been validated by the community. The 4.0 feature set, with associated use cases, can be found in the wiki. Acceptance testing can be as simple as loading up the one-click installer, testing a specific feature, and providing feedback. More information can be found on the Acceptance Testing page in the wiki. If you are interested in testing a use case or feature, please contact David Wilcox (dwil...@duraspace.org). Beta Pilots In addition to acceptance testing, we also need more in-depth testing in the form of Beta Pilots. Institutions participating as Beta Pilots will sign a letter of agreement to commit to a 4-6 month testing phase where they will install the Fedora 4.0 beta, ingest a variety of content, and test the software as extensively as possible. The Fedora Product Manager and Fedora Tech Lead will work with these institutions to hold regular update meetings and to produce a detailed report at the end of the six month Beta Pilot period. Participating institutions will have access to support from the Fedora 4 developer community, including the Fedora mailing lists, IRC channel, and regular meetings. They will also be referenced in press releases and other materials relating to the launch of Fedora 4.0. Developer Commitments Fedora 4 is developed entirely by volunteers from the community. The current set of volunteer commitments extends until the end of June, so we need to line up the following six months of commitments soon. These commitments are essential to Fedora 4 development; without them, we will be unable to deliver a 4.0 release or subsequent releases in the 4.x line. The Fedora 4 development team follows an Agile “Scrum” methodology; developers sign up for a number of two-week code sprints, and they are expected to be fully committed to the development team for the length of each scheduled sprint. Any institution that commits a developer for at least 0.5 FTE over the six month period is eligible to sit on the Leadership Group, which helps guide the software in the right direction. Please contact Andrew Woods (awo...@duraspace.org) to sign up and join the team!
[CODE4LIB] NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.0 Alpha 4 Release for Testing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1gTXI03 NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.0 Alpha 4 Release for Testing Winchester, MA The Fedora 4 development team and supporting institutions are pleased to announce the release of Fedora 4 Alpha 4. The Alpha 4 release moves the platform one step closer to the anticipated Beta release of the redesigned Fedora repository platform. Fedora 4 extends Fedora's leading role in flexible and versatile data repository solutions by meeting the growing demands of research data management and facilitating the integration in scalable data center architectures. The Fedora 4 Alpha 4 Release is available here: https://wiki.duraspace. org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+ Alpha+4+Release+Notes The expectation is that the Alpha 4 release will serve as a version of Fedora against which feature acceptance testing will be performed. Please contact David Wilcox (dwil...@duraspace.org) if you are interested in engaging in this testing. Features are only complete when Fedora stakeholders declare them to be so.
