From Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director Welcome New LG members! Please help me welcome Christian Hauschke, Violeta Ilik and Alex Viggio as new community members of the Leadership Group. Each has been actively shaping the VIVO project. They are all wonderful to work with. Leadership Group elections are now complete for the year. The Leadership… Read more »
From Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library The video from the June Developer Show and Tell (OR 2018 Recap) has been posted. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Dev+Show+and+Tell+-+June+26%2C+2018+-+1500UTC+-+OR+2018+Recap The July Developer Show and Tell scheduled for July 31 at 15:00 – 16:30 UTC (11AM ET – 12:30PM ET) will focus on Tools for working with a REST API. The meeting agenda… Read more »
The name Fedora is an acronym for the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture. The Fedora Repository is very flexible; it is capable of serving as a digital content repository for a wide variety of use cases. Among these are digital asset management, institutional repositories, data repositories, digital archives, content management systems, scholarly publishing enterprises,… Read more »
From Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director, on behalf of the VIVO Committers VIVO 1.10 is now available! VIVO 1.10 contains new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. Some highlights: • Support for RDF 1.1 • A new Triple Pattern Fragments API • Support for the Data Distribution API • Support for Direct2Experts • Support for… Read more »
VIVO Site Registry The VIVO Site registry is a list of all the known VIVO sites in the world. I get asked all the time “Is there a list of VIVO sites?” Well, yes, there is. You can find the site registry here: http://bit.ly/vivo-sites Is your site in the registry? Hint: you don’t need to… Read more »
From Tim Donohue, DSpace and DSpaceDirect Tech Lead, on behalf of the DSpace Committers As you may have seen earlier this week (in the JSPUI security notice email), DSpace 5.9 is now available! DSpace 5.9 provides bug fixes and improvements to the DSpace 5.x platform. DSpace 5.9 can be downloaded immediately from: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-5.9 5.9 Release… Read more »
From Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect Just a reminder that our Second DSpace Community Sprint is coming up on July 9-20! This is a great opportunity to get familiar with DSpace 7 and also help us complete DSpace 7 more quickly. As of right now, our signup list is still a bit… Read more »
From Bram Luyten, Atmire Originally launched in 2012, KAUST Research Repository has grown to over 18,000 items of KAUST research. KAUST Library and Atmire have worked together on the latest KAUST Repository upgrade featuring ORCIDv2 support, audiovisual streaming and other improvements. ORCIDv2 and Author authority control The majority of new items coming into KAUST Repository is mediated… Read more »
From Claudio Cortese, 4Science In June two major events were held involving the Repositories Community: Open Repositories OR2018 in Bozeman, MT (USA), and CRIS2018 in Umeå (Sweden). In Bozeman 4Science took part in presentations related to providing updates on DSpace 7 development (here you can find all the talks/workshops). 4Science co-led the workshop on DSpace 7… Read more »
Fedora Community we need you! The Fedora project is seeking two individuals from the community to be an active participant in the future of the Fedora project by serving as a member of the Fedora Leadership Group. We invite anyone in the Fedora community, DuraSpace members (whose institution doesn’t already have a Leadership Group… Read more »