From Atmire DSpace Repositories serving scholarly content generally receive a significant amount of daily download traffic from Google Scholar. In a recent webinar for Atmire clients, Bram Luyten zoomed in on: The basic principles of how Google Scholar indexes your repository Detecting and resolving indexing problems using the free Atmire Analyzer Monitoring traffic originating from Google… Read more »
From DSquare Technologies DSquare Technologies is pleased to announce GDPR solution for DSpace. Most of us are aware that General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted during May, 2018 resulting in stricter data privacy requirements. It is now more important than ever to ensure security of Personal Identifiable information. DSquare Technologies developed a GDPR compliance… Read more »
Our interest groups and task forces VIVO has interest groups – sort of permanent recurring groups that meet to discuss topics of shared interest, and task forces – time limited groups that meet to create a work product. Anyone can create either. We currently have two interest groups – Development, which meets weekly, and Ontology, which meets every other week. To join… Read more »
The ARKs-in-the-Open (AITO) team made great strides in 2018 toward their goal to transition the ARK specification and registry from the California Digital Library to a community supported and managed activity. Some highlights of the work so far this year: • The project received expressions of interest from 27 organizations on 4 continents. • The… Read more »
Whoa, what a sprint Last week we had a sprint for newcomers to the VIVO project. We set a new record for participation in a sprint (21). I want to thank all the newcomers from all over the world. We had major efforts in internationalization, search technology, bug fixes, documentation, build process, user experience, and product… Read more »
On December 5th the DuraSpace Hot Topics Series, “The Revolution Will Be Open?” concluded with the fourth and final webinar in this series. Andrew Smeall of Hindawi, Brian Hole of Ubiquity Press, and Anita Bandrowski of SciCrunch presented, “How For-Profit Companies Can Be a Part of the Open Environment.” In this one-hour webinar each presenter discussed their… Read more »
Message to DPN members from the DPN nodes Yesterday the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) announced plans to cease operations. The individual nodes that collectively provided preservation services to DPN seek to reassure the DPN membership as well as the larger academic and digital preservation communities that we remain confident about the future of digital preservation.… Read more »
DuraSpace and the University of Toronto Libraries in collaboration with Scholars Portal and COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) are pleased to announce a new joint project “DuraCloud Canada: Linking Data Repositories to Preservation Storage” funded by CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation. The purpose of… Read more »
Sprint this week! VIVO will be holding a one week sprint to introduce new developers to the project. The print will focus on maintenance tasks. If you’d like to learn about VIVO, how it is developed, and pitch in, this is a great opportunity. You will want to be on VIVO Slack if you are not already. Details… Read more »
Open access to scientific findings is essential. This conviction is shared by both the Executive Board of TU Berlin and the University Library. To this end, the Technische Universität Berlin approved an open access policy at the start of this year, thus lending its explicit support to its academics and researchers wishing to publish their… Read more »