Data curation

The new release of DSpace 3.0 provides users with a rich set of mix and match community-developed features and services to further engage and support DSpace repositories worldwide. Each feature is designed to be turned on or off to ensure that your DSpace is configured in the way that works best for your institution.

Winchester MA   You are paying for a rack of rapidly aging hard drives managed by your local IT department and were just informed that the upgrade cost for continuing to preserve your content would be higher than expected; Or you backup content on several servers kept in a closet down the hall but you have no way of adding more storage capacity; Or perhaps you have a stack of external hard drives that live under your desk that have started making a disturbing noise. Do you recognize yourself?

Winchester, MA  On November 1, 2011 DuraSpace launched DuraCloud, a fee-based subscription service available to any organization wishing to archive and preserve their content using the cloud without locking into a single cloud provider.

From OR2013 Program Co-Chairs Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, jwd@iu.edu and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, sshreeve@illinois.edu

Winchester, MA  The 2012 DuraCloud webinars are now available for you to browse on the DuraCloud YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/duracloudvideos. Join almost 2,300 viewers who have tuned in to learn about a wide range of useful DuraCloud-related topics that include:

Winchester, MA On November 15, William Michener, Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives at the University of New Mexico presented “DataONE: Tools and Approaches for Supporting the Data Life Cycle” to participants in the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute. In this webinar, Bill discussed how to help researchers address the key challenges with the data life cycle: planning, presevation, discovery and innovation.