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The Fedora Project is pleased to announce that The 2017 Fedora Annual Report is now available. This report was approved by the Fedora Leadership Group at the end of April. A PDF of the report can be downloaded from the Fedora wiki. Highlights include a membership update, community profiles, governance, finance, and expenditures, progress on key… Read more »
From Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director Outreach and Engagement Call this Thursday May 3, 1PM US Eastern time, the Outreach and Engagement Interest Group will have its monthly call. All are welcome! Sprint Progress Report As you may know, VIVO is in the midst of its first community sprint. The sprint started last Monday and continues through this Friday. Learn more here: Sprint 1… Read more »
If you will be traveling to Bozeman, Montana for OR2018 June 4-7 please join David Wilcox and Daniel Bernstein at Montana State University for a full-day workshop on June 4 that will provide an overview of Fedora–the flexible, extensible, open source repository platform for managing, preserving, and providing access to digital content. The latest version… Read more »
Today we officially launch the 2018 DuraSpace Membership Campaign. The campaign raises funds to support the continued advancement of the DuraSpace projects – DSpace, Fedora, VIVO, and CASRAI. While DuraSpace, a non-profit, proudly provides both the software and standards for free for anyone to use, we rely on the financial support and collaboration of our members to continue to… Read more »
Attention: faculty information, grants, and repository managers! You’re invited to participate in a project aimed at collecting, augmenting, and making discoverable patterns of faculty collaboration and research outputs through a pilot led by Research Graph and VIVO, and managed by Duraspace as a not-for-profit venture. The proposed project will: Create a Neo4j graph database from sample data representing faculty, publications,… Read more »
A workshop on Supporting FAIR Data Principles with Fedora was delivered on Thursday, February 22 by David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager. This workshop provided an overview of Fedora with a focus on how it can support the four FAIR principles: findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. Attendees had an opportunity to explore Fedora features first-hand using a virtual… Read more »
From Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director Action Planning VIVO Leadership, Steering and invited guests met March 1 at Duke University to review progress of the VIVO Project over the past three years, consider goals for the coming year, and organize action planning teams to create measurable objectives and monitor progress toward the objectives. Five teams… Read more »
From Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director VIVO Conference at the JB Duke Hotel The Ninth Annual International VIVO Conference will be held June 6-8, 2018 at the JB Duke Hotel on the campus of Duke University. The conference has obtained a fabulous rate for conference attendees. The rate includes breakfast and lunch each day, and dinner Thursday night. Be sure to stay at the JB… Read more »
From David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager The Fedora team will offer a Camp from Wednesday May 16 – Friday May 18, 2018 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C. The instructors include Esmé Cowles, Princeton University; Josh Westgard, University of Maryland, and the DuraSpace Fedora team; David Wilcox, Andrew… Read more »
From Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director Keep those ideas coming Have an idea about VIVO? What do we want? How will we get it? Share your ideas here: https://goo.gl/S2VSGD We will be collecting ideas through February 19. We hope to hear from you! VIVO Conference Call for Proposals is open Share your work on research information management, open… Read more »