Dear DSpace Community,
Last week kicked off the 2011 DuraSpace Sponsorship Campaign (see press release
below). As most of you already know, the sponsor program is designed to help
sustain the DuraSpace organization, a not-for-profit. In addition to the press
release, we have mailed out 700 sponsorship packets to library directors at
institutions around the world, including many of yours. For more information
about the sponsor packets you can visit: http://www.duraspace.org/sponsors.
You can also read more about our 22010 accomplishments and our 2011 initiatives
in our annual report (http://www.duraspace.org/about.php).
Please encourage your organization's leadership and others in your 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 Programs
DuraSpace
vhollis...@duraspace.org
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> From: Carol Minton Morris <cmmor...@fedora-commons.org>
> Date: May 5, 2011 11:17:55 AM EDT
> To: fcrepo-dev <fedora-commons-develop...@lists.sourceforge.net>, fcrepo-user
> <fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net>,
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> Subject: [Dspace-general] NEWS RELEASE: DuraSpace Launches 2011 Community
> Sponsorship Program
> Reply-To: cmmor...@duraspace.org
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> ONLINE:
> http://duraspace.org/content/duraspace-launches-2011-community-sponsorship-program
>
> May 5, 2011
>
> Contact: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org
>
>
> DuraSpace Launches 2011 Community Sponsorship Program
>
> Ithaca, NY The challenges of preserving and providing access to researcher
> data continue to grow and the stakes remain high. DuraSpace, an independent
> 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has launched its 2011 Community
> Sponsorship Program to engage leaders from university and library communities
> in supporting the common goal of ensuring that our scholarly record of
> digital content and data is saved and accessible for future generations.
>
> Community sponsors contribute at three levels of giving
> (http://DuraSpace.org/sponsors) as an investment in community-driven
> approaches to preserving our digital heritage. DuraSpace
> (http://DuraSpace.org) is the home of the DSpace (http://DSpace.org/), Fedora
> (http://Fedora-commons.org/) open source software for digital repositories
> and DuraCloud (http://DuraCloud.org), a hosted service for managing your
> content in the cloud.
>
> Providing leadership and community support
>
> 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.
>
> Ann J. Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusettes Institute of
> Technology, offers this rationale for financial support of the DuraSpace
> organization: “DuraSpace offers immediate solutions for university libraries
> grappling with growing amounts of digital content and data. By supporting
> their work, we are not only investing in the future of our own digital
> repositories, but in the integrity of the larger scholarly record as well.”
>
> About DuraSpace
>
> DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace software and
> services are used worldwide as solutions for open access, institutional
> repositories, digital libraries, digital archives, data curation, virtual
> research environments, and more. DuraSpace provides leadership and
> innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve
> libraries, universities, research centers, cultural heritage institutions,
> and other knowledge stewards. The organization’s open source technology
> portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository application and the
> Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud
> (http://DuraCloud.org), an emerging cloud-based service that leverages
> existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital
> content. The DuraSpace team includes recognized leaders and experts in the
> management of digital information. The team works with an active and diverse
> international community committed to the durability of digital resources.
>
> The DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue of
> durability of digital content. Our values are expressed in our
> organizational byline, “open technologies for durable digital content.”
>
> --
> Carol Minton Morris
> DuraSpace
> Director of Marketing and Communications
> cmmor...@duraspace.org
> Skype: carolmintonmorris
> 607 592-3135
> Twitter@DuraSpace
> Twitter@DuraCloud
> http://DuraSpace.org
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