Announce distribute

Ithaca, NY Today the DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce the launch of the DuraCloud web site. DuraCloud is an open source platform and managed service of DuraSpace that provides on-demand  storage and services for digital content in the cloud.

From Karla Strieb, Association of Research Libraries

Washington DC The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Digital Curation for Preservation,” the first report in its new series, New Roles for New Times.

http://www.arl.org/news/pr/nrnt-dcreport17mar11.shtml

Ithaca, NY DuraSpace, a leading provider of open source tools to help organizations ensure their digital content is durable and usable, announces the release of an updated version of DuraCloud Open Source (0.8) with improvements for managing content in the cloud.

@mire and the DSpace Community Advisory Team with the support of DuraSpace, invite all DSpace enthusiasts to this DSpace user group meeting on Tuesday, June 21st from 9:00am to 5:00pm in Geneva. Taking place right before the OAI7 conference, the meeting will feature sessions on the upcoming DSpace 1.8 release, both addressed to repository managers and developers.

Ithaca, NY  DuraSpace, a not-for-profit organization providing open source software and services, announced today that Michele Kimpton will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective March 1, 2011.  Kimpton is currently the Chief Business Officer of DuraSpace, and formerly the Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation.

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Ithaca, NY  The DSpace user community has reached a major milestone. There are now over 1000 known instances of DSpace installed in almost 100 different countries worldwide. DSpace continues to be the most popular repository solution, with well over a third of the known institutional repositories using the DSpace software.

Ithaca, NY This month DuraSpace Digest features the release of DSpace 1.7; updates from DuraCloud pilot parters at MIT, Rhodes College and the University of Michigan; highlights from the IDCC conference and the CNI fall meeting, and; "A Wind Music Library."

http://duraspace.org/duraspacedigestv2i9.php

Announcements

On behalf of the DSpace Committers, we would like to formally announce that DSpace 1.7.0 is now available!

DSpace 1.7.0 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations:

• SourceForge
• Subversion

In addition, you are welcome to try out DSpace 1.7.0 on http://demo.dspace.org/ and continue to provide any early feedback you may have.

On behalf of the DSpace Committers, we would like to formally announce that DSpace 1.7.0 is now available!

DSpace 1.7.0 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations:

• SourceForge
• Subversion

In addition, you are welcome to try out DSpace 1.7.0 on http://demo.dspace.org/ and continue to provide any early feedback you may have.