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2017-2018 Strategic Summary Prepared by the DuraSpace Staff [3]
Introduction We are grateful for our
community’s financial
D
uraSpace and support, and for their
the communi- engagement in the en-
ties it serves
are increasingly We continue to hear
interconnected through
national and interna-
from our commu-
tional initiatives working nity that interop-
to build and implement
the open, ever-expand-
erability between
ing digital scholarly eco- and among Fedora,
system and infrastruc-
ture that connects us all. DSpace, and VIVO
Our global community would be an advan-
continued to contribute
to the growth, advance- tage in addressing
ment, and adoption rate ongoing individual
of DSpace, Fedora, and
VIVO in 2017-2018. institutions’ strate-
In addition, a growing gic goals.
subscriber base to Du-
raSpace hosted services terprise we share as we
is adding to an effective work together to provide
customer service best enduring access to the
practices knowledge world’s digital heritage.
base while increasing
DuraSpace revenues. With your support our
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 1
organization has taken in addressing ongoing
opportunities to review istitutional strategic
and reset our strategic goals. To make progress
direction in 2017- towards interoperability
2018. DuraSpace has made op-
erational improvements
We continue to hear to work more effectively
from our community across our open source
that interoperability be- projects and communi-
tween and among Fedo- ties. We are document-
ra, DSpace, and VIVO ing details of common
would be an advantage workflows to identify
DuraSpace Cloud Services
2017 was a year of growth for DuraSpace hosted services.
A record number of new customers were added, including
international customers. DuraSpace services maintained a
customer retention rate of over 90%. DuraSpace exhibited
at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting In
Portland, and presented at the DPN 2017 Membership
Meeting in Atlanta, GA. In 2018, DuraSpace introduced
new lower service pricing and new partnerships as well as
additional opportunities for outreach to institutions that
could benefit from the low-cost, hosted preservation and
access serviced DuraSpace provides.
2 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary
economies of scale to open source projects
break down project including tasks, pro-
“siloes”. Currently com- cesses, responsibilities,
munications, outreach, and activities in order
and marketing activities to facilitate and plan for
as well as planning for training camps and web
inter-project technical seminars to efficiently
development sprints make hands-on, in-depth
are underway. We have software information and
documented elements training available to our
across DuraSpace community.
ArchivesDirect
Beginning in 2018, the ArchivesDirect service transitioned
to a Certified Partner Program with Artefactual Systems.
Artefactual Systems is now responsible for the sales and
implementation process for ArchivesDirect, and in return
they provide 5% of ArchivesDirect revenue to DuraSpace.
DuraCloud will continue to provide the preservation
storage for ArchivesDirect customers and DuraSpace will
continue to host the ArchivesDirect website, promote the
service, and invoice existing customers. Both DuraSpace
and Artefactual Systems are confident this new model will
allow the service to grow more quickly and reach those
institutions that would most benefit from a hosted open
source version of Archivematica.
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 3
DSpaceDirect
DSpaceDirect grew rapidly in 2017, nearly doubling in size
to 30 customers. The institutions who rely on DSpaceDirect
for their hosted DSpace repositories are mostly small
digital collections; 26 customers currently utilize less than
40GB of storage for their repository.
DSpaceDirect lost three customers in 2017; in all three
cases, the repository lost a local champion and was
completely discontinued rather than being migrated to
another platform. Hosted repositories that do not become
strategically integral to their host campus within three
years appear to be most susceptible to this kind of loss.
In 2018, DSpaceDirect reduced the number of add-on
packages and streamlined the service to make future
upgrades easier. Service planning for improvements ad-
dresses needed maintenance, including a recent upgrade
to Postgres, upgrading all repositories to DSpace 6, as
well as sharing fifty percent of the net income from the
service with the DSpace project. Net income from 2018 will
be available to the DSpace project in the 2019 fiscal year.
The DSpace Steering Committee will decide how to allocate
these funds.
4 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic SummaryDuraCloud
DuraCloud customers grew by nearly one fifth in 2017.
Today 50 customers rely on DuraCloud as part of their
preservation storage strategy. Institutions are continuing
to invest in DuraCloud, with over one-third of customers
adding at least 1 TB of additional storage to their sub-
scriptions in 2017. Since 2009, DuraCloud and DuraCloud
Vault use has grown to include more than 400 TB of
content in preservation storage.
DuraCloud began 2018 by rolling out a new pricing model
for accounts of 20 TB and above passing on storage
savings to customers and making it easier to plan for and
add additional storage as needed. For the first time in
2018, DuraSpace is offering a first-year discount to new
customers who are DuraSpace members at Silver level
and above.
Mapping the Scholarly the scholarly ecosystem
Ecosystem our board and commu-
nity have identified the
A
s our work evolves need to map parts and
to include great- pieces of the scholarly
er participation ecosystem in a coherent
across profit and manner to promote a
non-profit sectors of better understanding
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 5DuraCloud Vault
DuraCloud Vault continues to be a popular option for mem-
bers of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) who wish to
deposit their most valuable digital assets into Chronopolis
and the rest of the DPN nodes. 29 institutions currently
rely on DuraCloud Vault to transfer their items into the
DPN network. The relationship between DuraSpace services
and the DPN and Chronopolis teams remain strong with
The relationship between DuraSpace services and the DPN
and Chronopolis teams remain strong with weekly meet-
ings and sharing of technical expertise benefiting all DPN
members as well as DuraCloud and DuraCloud Vault users.
this informational tool
DuraSpace intends DuraSpace intends to
to more effectively more effectively lead and
participate in advanc-
lead and participate ing and hardening the
in advancing and scholarly infrastructure
we all depend on. With
hardening the schol- help from our Board of
arly infrastructure. Directors DuraSpace
of how all of our efforts has completed a draft
intersect, are parallel, map. The map of the
duplicative, and/or scholarly ecosystem will
complementary to one be released for public
another. By providing comment later this year.
6 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic SummaryInternational national and interna-
Engagement tional organizations
that share similar and
P
articipation, inter- complementary missions
est and stakehold- with DuraSpace. There
ers in the scholarly is a growing interest in
ecosystem are technological standards
found in every part of the and systems interop-
world. Though techni- erability within and
cal, social, and political beyond the scholarly
barriers to open sharing ecosystem. DuraSpace
of information and data has the unique value of
exist, DuraSpace has representing a global
joined with many other and diverse community
institutions, consortia, of developers, users,
and organizations in the managers, and deci-
belief that by working sion makers, making it
together we can provide strategically interesting
enduring access to the for different kinds of
world’s digital heritage. organizations from
around the world to
One of the expected partner with us such as
results of mapping the ministerial agencies,
scholarly ecosystem is national consortia; inter-
a better overview and national organizations
understanding of the and communities such
as euroCRIS, COAR,
OpenAIRE, ORCID and
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 7others. came discoverygarden's
Business Development
To expand global Manager, overseeing
membership and take community outreach and
advantage of reve- sales. With Erin’s help
nue-generating business Durapace is working
opportunities Du- directly with community
raSpace created two new projects and service
staff positions in 2017. providers to expand
Erin Tripp was hired mutually beneficial
as the Business Devel- collaborations.
opment Manager for
DuraSpace and Michele Mr. Mennielli is a
Mennielli joined the longtime member of the
team as the new Interna- DuraSpace communi-
tional Membership and ty. His contributions
Partnership Manager. include serving on the
DSpace Steering Group
Mrs. Tripp came to and working as a Regis-
Duraspace from discov- tered Service Provider
erygarden inc, an Islan- liaison for CINECA
dora service provider, and 4Science. He led
where she gained deep the DSpace marketing
experience as a Project interest group in 2015
Manager, coordinating and developed a DSpace
development for dozens Marketing Strategy that
of digital repository provided an analysis of
projects. She later be- DSpace competitors
8 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summaryand suggestions for wish to provide open
how to leverage the source software services
strength of the large, with the support of
international DSpace DuraSpace through the
repository community. DuraSpace Registered
In 2015, Mr. Mennielli Service Provider (RSP)
presented contrasting program.
and well-received views
of the open access policy 4Science will begin
landscapes in the United offering DuraCloud
States and Europe at services as a Certified
the DuraSpace Member DuraSpace Partner in
Summit. He is lead- 2018. This partnership
ing efforts to improve will facilitate delivery of
member benefits and DuraCloud preservation
expand participation and content storage
in open source project services in Europe and
governance. offer application support
Service Provider in additional time zones
Highlights and languages. 4Science
is an active participant of
the DSpace open source
D
uraSpace es- repository community.
tablishes part- The company is a mem-
nerships with ber of the RSP program,
service providers contributes the technical
(companies, non-prof- expertise of two com-
its, consortia, etc.) that mitters, participates in
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 9the development of the The current RSP
new DSpace 7 Angular Program will be restruc-
UI, leads the REST API tured and rebranded in
Subteam, and served on 2018 as the DuraSpace
the Steering Committee Service Provider (DSP)
for DSpace. Program. It will offer
more ways to collaborate
Longtime DuraSpace with DuraSpace for
Registered Service Pro- different types of service
vider Atmire has been a providers in our commu-
key DuraSpace collab- nity, large and small.
orator and instrumental
in advancing DSpace The goals of the new
development, and in Program are four-fold:
supporting the global
DSpace community. The • Generating revenue to
company is a member fund DuraSpace staff po-
of the RSP program, sitions to manage code
contributes technical contributions/ merges,
expertise, participates in releases, bug fixes, and
the development of the community leadership
new DSpace 7 Angular and outreach efforts in
UI, and serves on the support of DuraSpace
Steering Committee. In open technologies and
2017, Atmire launched communities
hosted DSpace services: • Working more closely
DSpace Express and with open source service
Open Repository. providers to generate
10 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summaryqualified leads and Contributors, and
promote the adoption • DuraSpace Listed
of DuraSpace open Service Providers
technologies to a broad-
er group of prospect Each tier has categories
organizations for DSpace, Fedora
• Celebrating the (Samvera/Islandora),
expertise and in-kind VIVO, DuraCloud, and
contributions of service ArchivesDirect.
providers as it propels
the quality and function- More details on the new
ality of our code-bases program will be available
and open knowledge to in May 2018.
empower users
• Providing support and Evolving the DuraSpace
mentorship to service Business Model
providers who want to
start contributing to our In 2013 the DuraSpace
communities business model was
based on this goal:
The new DuraSpace “Continue to pro-
Service Provider (DSP) vide leadership in OS
Program has three tiers: software development
and collaboration
• Certified DuraSpace and develop revenue
Partners, generating services to
• Certified DuraSpace complement our work.”
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 11At that time member- through attendance at
ship covered only 20% regional meetings and
of total organizational user groups.
costs. The 2017-2018
revenue picture shows In addition to helping to
greater business diversi- pay for staff who provide
fication with a continued technical leadership, di-
strategic emphasis on rect strategic planning,
building revenue-gener- organize community
ating services. outreach and communi-
cations, and coordinate
Member financial timely software releases,
contributions and active your membership dollars
participation make open will help the DSpace
source project advances community accomplish:
possible:
• Coordinated, com-
DSpace munity-wide develop-
DSpace project advanc- ment on the DSpace 7
es include five DSpace release, including both
bug-fix releases, coordi- a new User Interface
nated development and (based on Angular) and
training on the upcom- a new REST API (based
ing DSpace 7 User on current REST best
Interface and REST API, practices)
and increased inter- • Increase developer
national engagement knowledge sharing and
participation through
12 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summaryorganized Commu- and virtual workshops in
nity Sprints, Show & partnership with other
Tell meetings, and/ international and nation-
or Virtual Developers al organizations.
Conferences
• Coordinated, com- Fedora
munity-wide strategic With your help and
planning, especially active participation
regarding enhancements the Fedora project has
to the DSpace data achieved great things
model to support new this past year, including
Entities (e.g. Author 4 software releases, do-
objects/profiles, etc) mestic and international
• Work with the com- Fedora workshops, a
munity to make DSpace 3-day Fedora Camp and
compliant with emerging a 5 day Samvera and
international standards Fedora Camp.
and recommendations
Strengthen support for In addition to helping
DSpace user groups, to pay for staff who
including coordination provide technical lead-
of cross-user group ership, direct strategic
meetings / resource planning, organize
sharing, and facilitation community outreach,
of new regional user and coordinate timely
groups throughout the software releases, your
world. membership dollars will
• Organizing in-person
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 13also help the Fedora lot hosted VIVO service.
community accomplish International activity has
the following: been strong, with work-
•Support for Fedora 3 shops held in Denmark,
to Fedora 4 migrations Germany and India, an
• Domestic and Interna- internationalization
tional Fedora workshops task force planning
and user group meetings VIVO improvements,
• High-priority techni- and new worldwide
cal goals such as the API VIVO implementations.
specification effort Currently, VIVO counts
• Broader adoption and 150+ implementations
compatibility with front- in 27 countries, with
end interfaces from many more in progress.
Samvera, Islandora, and Strong interest in VIVO
other custom applica- continues.
tions.
VIVO release 1.10 is
VIVO planned for availability at
Since July 2017, the the ninth annual VIVO
VIVO project coordi- Conference on June 6 to
nated the first commu- 8 at the JB Duke Hotel
nity-organized VIVO at Duke University.
Conference at Weill
Cornell Medicine, two Ambitious plans for next
VIVO training camps, year are underway, and
and launched the Re- VIVO appreciates your
search Graph Cloud Pi- membership support
14 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summarymore than ever. From VIVO conference
July 2018 to June 2019, • Helping members de-
your membership dollars fine and create success
will enable DuraSpace for VIVO over the next
staff to coordinate devel- twelve months.
opment work, provide
community infrastruc- CASRAI
ture, and manage orga- DuraSpace and CAS-
nizational and financial RAI, The Consortia
services. Additionally, Advancing Standards in
your membership will Research Administration
support the VIVO com- Information, recently
munity’s work on these announced that CAS-
and other initiatives: RAI is now a project
of DuraSpace adding
• Developing VIVO ‘open systems’ and
1.11 with a modern, mo- ‘open standards’ to the
bile-first user experience current focus on ‘open
• Adding to the VIVO source’– a layered open
ontologies to share in- stack we will be calling
novations developed by OS3 or “OS-cubed”.
the VIVO community Together we plan to add
• Revitalizing the de- a Research Management
veloper community with Information (RMI)
new processes and more dimension to our focus
ways to get involved on scholarly communi-
• Hosting two VIVO cations and open access.
camps and a new kind of program.
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 15Groundwork for Change: 2017-2018 Overview
D
uraSpace’s both our well-estab-
financial position lished Cloud Services,
remains strong. DuraCloud, DuraCloud
Net income from Vault, DSpaceDirect and
2017 reflected the stron- ArchivesDirect, as well as
gest year in our organiza- new consulting and con-
tion’s history, at $237K. tract services. In addition
Membership revenue we are re-calibrating our
shows that the financial service provider program
support from our commu- as well as engaging in new
nity remains stable year partnership and affiliate
over year, at $1.1 million. arrangements that both
DuraSpace continues to broaden our community
explore service offerings engagement and further
that are in demand by the diversify our revenue
community, including stream.
16 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary2017 Financial Results
In 2017 DuraSpace contractors. Revenue
revenue grew by 10% or for 2018 is expected to
$217K over 2016 with drop by 10% or $237K
the growth coming from due to the conclusion of
Cloud Service revenue, a grant-funded project.
which was up by 33% 2018 expenses are ex-
or $158K. At the same pected to increase slightly
time DuraSpace expenses by 3% or by $61K for the
increased 4% or $85K, continued investment in
due to additional cloud business development/
storage fees and outside partnership efforts.
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 17Cash trends, 2015-2017 in the bank. Our cash
flow will continue to flat-
DuraSpace ended 2017 ten throughout the year
in a strong cash position, as our revenue stream
with over a million dollars diversifies.
18 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic SummaryCommunity support trends over time, 2011-2017*
There has been overall in the 2017 Membership
growth in annual finan- Campaign. This trend
cial support from our represents nearly a 3x
community since the growth in fundraising
launch of the DuraSpace revenue since 2010. For
Community Sponsor- most of the DuraSpace
ship Program in 2010, projects membership
growing from $298K in remained stable for 2017
2010 to $1.117 million compared to 2016.
Hosted Services growth & consulting revenue, 2011-2017*
Strong growth of the DSpaceDirect, and
combined suite of Du- ArchivesDirect has led
raSpace hosted services to cloud service revenue
including DuraCloud, of $646K at the end of
DuraCloud Vault, 2017.
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 19Overall revenue growth services of interest to the
for services has been in community which will fur-
excess of 30% each year ther diversify our revenue
since 2015. We expect streams. We anticipate
that growth will plateau a small amount of this
in 2018 as we seek more revenue, roughly $25K
medium-sized customers. in 2018.
We have also cultivated
consulting and contract
Business Opportunities and skills and resources more
Diversified Revenue Streams widely and efficiently. We
continue to seek our com-
As our community grows munity’s guidance on how
and changes, we in turn we, a small organization,
are being called on to can help meet community
coordinate and share challenges by expanding
20 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summarythe reach of our proj- In 2018 DuraSpace will
ects and programs and actively pursue collabora-
working more effectively tive opportunities to pro-
across projects, technol- vide solutions to fill gaps
ogies and international in custom development,
communities. training, and consulting
services as indicated by
An Internal Consulting our community. These
Services work group is endeavors must align with
developing preliminary our mission, and sustain
ideas/next steps with an and grow the programs
eye towards a broad view and the DuraSpace orga-
of integrated business nization as a whole.
opportunities. As part of
that process a Community International Outreach
Survey was conducted in and Action
Jan-Feb 2017 aimed at
learning more about how DuraSpace seeks to
DuraSpace might better broaden and extend our
serve our community. We reach to support efforts in
are moving forward to- the ecosystem to preserve
wards taking on contract- and make accessible
ed and consulting work cultural heritage and
where possible given the academic resources
small size of our current globally. These assets
staff. should be accessible and
usable by researchers of
every stripe to advance
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 21interdisciplinary research chief among our goals
and discovery around the in 2018. Over the next
world. Our reputation as two years we will grow
experts in this field com- staff and operations
bined with our agility, with diversified revenue
suit us to influence rather streams to sustain and
than to take ownership grow the organization. At
of this work and to shape the same time, we want
the efforts of community. to retain the agility of a
While our small size and smaller organization and
location just outside of maintain the confidence
academia positions us to and trust of a community
adapt and respond to cul- that has come to rely on
tural and political shifts, it the services and expertise
also makes us vulnerable we offer individually and
financially and organiza- collectively.
tionally. Over the next
two years the DuraSpace In order to strengthen the
organization intends to international outreach
grow large enough to sus- and engagement, we are
tain and grow operations working on two main
while retaining the agility activities: developing
of a small organization. relations with national
organizations and con-
Addressing the vul- sortia, that could serve as
nerability of our small regional contact points.
size and lean funding is Examples are the Consor-
22 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summarytium of University in Italy officially establish a
(Cineca) and Spain (Sig- Strategic Partnership was
ma), the National Agency euroCRIS. euroCRIS is
for Science and Tech- a not-for-profit, statutory
nology in Peru (CON- association (http://www.
CYTEC), the National eurocris.org), governed
Library Association in by Dutch law, dedicat-
Turkey (ANKOS); we're ed to the development
also supporting and co- and implementation of
ordinating regional User efficient and effective
Groups, getting more institutional, national and
involved with the existing international research
ones (in Germany and information systems and
the US) or facilitating the their interoperability,
creation of new ones. based on CERIF (Com-
mon European Research
Strategic Partners Information Format).
DuraSpace Strategic Part- The motivation for the
ners are aligned with our collaboration is that
mission and help fulfill the two organizations
it by working with their strongly believe that
communities to meet international cooperation
shared goals. is the right way to create a
high-quality technological
The first organization ecosystem for academic
we signed a MoU with and scientific research
in February 2017 to and that
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 23Current Research Infor- and recommendations
mation Systems (CRISs) for interoperability; the
and Institutional Reposi- other one with COAR to
tories (IRs) are two funda- provide joint workshops
mental and interoperable around the world about
components of such an the current and future
ecosystem, both dealing role of repository in the
with the new challenges scholarly ecosystem..
regarding Open Access,
Open Data, National As- Extending Membership
sessment, and Research Benefits
Funding worldwide.
Based on this partnership The current business
DuraSpace and euroCRIs model that relies on mem-
are jointly organizing a bership funds to sustain
Repository-CRIS work- our open source projects
shop prior to the 2018 is not sustainable. Insti-
CRIS Conference in June tutions in North America,
2018. our main contributors,
are facing funding issues.
We’re currently consid- We need to change our
ering 2 other strategic membership focus to
partnerships, one with include outreach for
OpenAIRE aiming at memberships interna-
enhancing the reposi- tionally.
tories so to comply with
international standards We have developed a new
24 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summarymembership model and Membership which is
value proposition to allow currently being negotiat-
a broader part of the com- ed for a specific group of
munity to be more active institutions in Germany.
members of DuraSpace.
The new membership val- 2017 Community Survey:
ue proposition introduces Learning How DuraSpace Can
two new levels - Support- Better Serve our Community
er ($500) and Copper
($1000) - harmonizes the In 2017 we surveyed
model for all the projects. our community to help
It aims to create a gover- us learn more about how
nance structure which is DuraSpace might better
inclusive and representa- serve our community.
tive of our global commu-
nity. We also introduced We heard directly and
a model for Consortia indirectly from seg-
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 25ments of our community research communities,
that different types of and the need to pursue
technical assistance a solution that simplifies
would be helpful at their the process of imple-
institutions. In 2018 we menting and managing
are investigating how we the system for a variety
at DuraSpace might be of users and workflows.
further able to help you It also strengthened
achieve your goals. relationships with the
pilot organizations and
Grants and Partnerships our resolve to continue
work on Hyku. In Feb-
In 2017-2018 we con- ruary 2018, DuraSpace
cluded our collaboration submitted an IMLS pre-
with Stanford University liminary project proposal
Libraries and the Digital called Deploying Hyku
Public Library of America to Library Consortia: A
(DPLA), on Hyku, the Living Laboratory Project
IMLS-funded, Hydra-in- to build capacity for U.S.
a-box (LG-70-15-0006- library consortia to run
15) repository bundle. and maintain shared
Our efforts included the Hyku digital repositories
HykuDirect Pilot Project. for their members.
Feedback from partici-
pants validated our under- DuraSpace also submit-
standing of the needs of ted an IMLS preliminary
the cultural heritage and planning project proposal
26 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summaryfor Designing a Migration preservation and content
Path: Assessing Barriers storage services as well
Upgrading to Fedora as application support in
4.x. The project focuses European time zones and
on consultation with the languages, beginning in
Islandora, Samvera, and spring 2018. This Part-
Fedora communities to nership is part of a grow-
improve resources and ing number of initiatives
support for the hundreds to foster greater engage-
of organizations planning ment and collaboration
to upgrade the current, around DuraCloud. For
supported release of example, in Spring 2017
Fedora. We hope to be DuraSpace worked with
invited by IMLS to submit the Texas Digital Library
a full proposals for both (TDL) to deliver installa-
projects in May 2018. tion and training support
so it can provide Dura-
In November 2017, Cloud to its members.
DuraSpace announced its Also, DuraSpace was
new Certified DuraSpace accepted into the latest
Partner program for Du- cohort of the Mozilla
raCloud. Its first member Open Leaders program,
is 4Science, an active with its project Open
participant of the DSpace Sourcing DuraCloud:
community. 4Science will Beyond the License to
begin to offer DuraCloud develop communication
Europe, open source products and a framework
DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summary 27that will engage Dura-
Cloud users and prospect A new collaboration with
contributors. the California Digital
Library (CDL) to build an
DuraSpace is collaborat- open, international com-
ing with Digital Divide munity around the Archi-
Data (DDD), a non-profit val Resource Key (ARK)
social enterprise creat- persistent identifier
ing sustainable jobs for started in January 2018.
disadvantaged, underpriv- Since 2001, CDL has
ileged, and underserved served as the incubator
communities. DDD for ARK infrastructure.
provides technical train- To achieve long-term
ing for youth by partner- sustainability, DuraSpace
ing with Amazon Web and CDL will consult
Services (AWS) and Intel. with ARK stakeholders
Together they formed to guide the future of
a Cloud Academy in the ARK community and
Nairobi, Kenya in January infrastructure.
2017 with a goal to teach
AWS cloud competen- Duraspace, VIVO,
cies and skills that are and Research Graph,
globally credentialed and an open collaborative
certified. The training effort toward connecting
gives graduates access to scholarly records across
employment opportuni- global research repos-
ties in cloud computing. itories, partnered on a
28 DuraSpace 2017-2018 Strategic Summarypilot project in 2018. 2017-2018 DuraSpace Strate-
The pilot project will test gic Summary credits:
a cloud-based platform
for augmenting research Content contributions
David Baker, Bill Branan, Mike Con-
repositories with infor-
lon, Tim Donohue, Valorie Hollister,
mation from the global Heather Greer Klein, Debra Hanken
network of scholarly Kurtz, Michele Menielli, Carol
works. This platform also Minton Morris, Erin Tripp, David
will enable transforming Wilcox, Andrew Woods
metadata about research
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activities and their out- DuraSpace staff
comes to a cloud-hosted
VIVO instance. Copy editing
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Enduring Access to the World’s
Digital Heritage, Duraspace Design
Strategic Plan 2016: Carol Minton Morris
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