June 2017
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Welcome Michele Mennielli: International Membership and Partnership Manager for DuraSpace
DuraSpace is pleased to announce that Michele Mennielli will join DuraSpace as the new International Membership and Partnership Manager on August 1, 2017.  Read more

DuraSpace Launches New Web Site
DuraSpace has a lot to celebrate in 2017.  We are proud to introduce our new web site which has been designed to highlight our projects and services while offering our community in-depth information and news of interest to the global scholarly ecosystem that we all share.  Read more
DuraSpace Projects


A Deep Dive into DSpace and Angular 2 at OR2017
A group of 2017 Open Repositories Conference attendees took a step towards a deeper understanding of current DSpace development priorities and process at the "Getting started with Angular UI Development for DSpace" OR2017 Workshop presented by Tim Donohue,  DuraSpace and Art Lowel, Atmire.   Read more

New Logo for DSpace!
DSpace has a new look! With the help of 99designs, DuraSpace, and designers from around the world, more than 100 logo designs were contributed to help the DSpace community chose a new logo for the popular open source repository software in use by more than 2300 institutions worldwide.   Read more

Aaron Birkland-Extending Fedora Functionality
A contributor to Fedora since the early days of Fedora 2, Aaron's focus is currently on the Fedora API-X Extension Architecture Project that will extend the native functionality of a Fedora 4 repository.  Read more

Fedora 4 and the Knowledge Grid at U Michigan Medical School
"Fedora 4 in Production" looks into why and how community members are working with Fedora 4 to enhance both collections and workflow at their institutions.  Read more  

HykuDirect Pilot Program and Hyku Beta Testing Underway
The Hydra-In-A-Box team is pleased to announce that Beta testing for local installs of Hyku repository have begun!  Read more 

VIVO Updates
May 28, 2017 - Conference Breaks its Glass Ceiling, Survey, Outreach, Internationalization
June 11, 2017 - Vitro, and Why Ontology?
June 18, 2017 - VIVO 1.10 Beta Available, Conference, JIRA++
June 25, 2017 - Become an Ontology Reviewer/Committer

NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.7.3 Release
The Fedora Team is proud to announce the release of Fedora 4.7.3 on June 7, 2017.  Read more

Pssst: Save $100-Register for the VIVO Conference by June 30
The VIVO event of the year, is offering an advanced registration price of $275 until June 30.  Read more

Visit HykuDirect.org
DuraSpace is pleased to announce that the new HykuDirect web site is up and running, and ready to field inquiries about the exciting new hosted service currently in development.  Read more

WATCH New Hyku, Hyrax, and the Hydra-in-a-Box Project Demo
Check out the latest demo of advances made on Hyku, Hyrax, and the Hydra-in-a-Box project.  Read more

THE Research Networking Event-Register for the 2017 VIVO Conference by June 30 and SAVE $100
The 2017 VIVO Conference is all about research networking! If this topic and creating an integrated record of the scholarly work of your organization is of interest then the 2017 VIVO Conference is the place to be Aug 2-4 in New York City.  Read more
 
Expanded Language Support in Hyku
It's the week of  Open Repositories 2017 , we can't think of a better time to highlight Hyku's support for a growing number of languages in the application UI.  Read more
 
NYC this Summer: VIVO 2017 Plus Symplectic North American Conferences
Attend both the VIVO and Symplectic conferences at Weill Cornell Medicine and hit two fantastic events in the same trip!  Read more  

Samvera Launches Web Site
The new Samvera (formerly Hydra) website is now live at samvera.org.   Read more

AVAILABLE: 6 Release Candidate Version of DSpace-CRIS
DuraSpace Registered Service Providers


Atmire Acquires Longsight DSpace Business
Longsight, Inc. and Atmire are pleased to announce the transition of Longsight's DSpace business to Atmire. Read more

4Science Update: New cooperation, Releases, Features, Webinars and Presentations!
It's been a busy month for 4Science and we're excited to share a lot of news with you!   Read more
ETC


Texas Digital Library Joins Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network
University of California, San Diego The Texas Digital Library  (TDL), along with the Texas Advanced Computing Center  (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, has joined the Chronopolis digital preservation network, becoming the first new node since the network's inception in 2008.  Read more

Open Repositories 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA
Montana State University is pleased to announce the 13th annual Open Repositories conference June 4-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana.   Read more