@mire NV <http://www.atmire.com>, an international Institutional Repository Service provider headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, announces its collaboration with Mark Diggory (San Diego, California). Mark Diggory's activities will have a strong focus on DSpace oriented projects, providing a U.S. based service both for @mire's expanding U.S. client base, as well as for international clients.
Mark spent the past decade as a Software Project manager and systems engineer for M.I.T. Libraries and Harvard University. Mark is a member of the core DSpace 2.0 development team. Together with @mire's Head of Development, Ben Bosman, in collaboration with the DSpace Foundation, *...@mire will continue to contribute to DSpace 2.0 development*. *Mark Diggory* comments "*I am enthusiastic about partnering with @mire's capable development team to bring DSpace software consultancy services to the U.S. @mire's philosophy of transparency and collaboration when working with clients has a strong synergy with the DSpace communities open source initiatives. Our partnership creates the best vendor solution for organizations around the globe that need the security and experience of long-term support for their Institutional Repository services. We mediate the risks that confront in-house software customization projects by partnering with these organizations throughout the process, from producing detailed requirements analysis' and quotes, to providing complete and robust customizations to DSpace.*" *Lieven Droogmans, @mire's CEO* said "*Mark's outstanding reputation speaks for itself. This collaboration will not only enhance our portfolio of commercial services for new and existing clients, but also allow us to participate within the DSpace developers group and assure the success of DSpace as an open source project. We are strongly invested in the DSpace platform and recognize the benefits of a healthy open source community as critical to our own companies success.*" @mire provided DSpace consultancy and custom development services to a number of U.S. based institutions including, the U.S. National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, the Abilene Library Consortium and the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust as well as international institutions such as the University of Pretoria and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. @mire's team has expertise in DSpace introduction and customization projects, both in the context of research institutions and digital libraries. The team of competent DSpace developers, which combined with experienced repository project managers and analysts, provides a formidable and affordable resource to a broad range of institutions. @mire's competences in state of the art repository development are demonstrated in the @mire DSpace add-on modules <http://www.atmire.com/products.php>, which are about to become publicly available for evaluation purposes through the @mire Labs platform. @mire NV Technologielaan 9 (New address !) 3001 Heverlee Belgium +32 2 888 29 56 http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther
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