Dear DSpace Community,
Today we have launched a Sponsorship Program to help sustain the DuraSpace
organization. We have posted a press release (see a portion below) as well as
some informational resources on the duraspace.org website. We have also mailed
out 600 sponsorship packets to library directors at institutions around the
world.
Please encourage your institution's library director and others in your DSpace
community network to support our efforts. With the community's help we will
continue to enhance our existing technologies, advocate for our user community
and innovate with new solutions that ensure the long-term durability of our
collective digital heritage.
Thank you!
Valorie Hollister
Director of Community Development, DSpace Project
DuraSpace
[email protected]
DuraSpace Launches Sponsorship Program
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 8:49 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Ithaca, NY DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has
launched its 2010 Sponsorship Program (http://DuraSpace.org/sponsorship.php) to
engage leaders from university and library communities in supporting the
organization’s ongoing mission. DuraSpace provides open source software and
services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our
collective digital heritage. DuraSpace is the home of the DSpace
(http://DSpace.org/) and Fedora (http://Fedora-commons.org/) open source
software for digital repositories. Sponsors contribute at three levels of
giving (http://DuraSpace.org/sponsorshiplevels.php) as an investment in
community-driven approaches to preserving our digital heritage.
Providing Leadership and Advocacy
DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org/) is committed to providing leadership and
innovation in the development and deployment of open technologies that promote
durable, persistent access to digital data. Collaborators include highly
respected academic institutions, government agencies, and scientific and
cultural organizations. In addition to its work in open source software and
services, DuraSpace advocates for open access to scholarly publications and for
interoperability of the supporting technologies. DuraSpace has helped to
establish open standards and protocols by working with other open source
software projects and working closely with commercial partners on integration
strategies.
Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
(CNI) offers this rationale for financial support of the DuraSpace
organization: “DuraSpace is well positioned to focus resources and talent to
accelerate progress in areas critical to the research, education and cultural
memory communities.”
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