[eIFLoa] Fwd: DSpace 1.6 Available Now

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarded message from Carol Minton Morris]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE

March 3, 2010
Contact:  <vhollister at duraspace.org>V <tstaples at duraspace.org>alorie
Hollister;  <tdonohue at duraspace.org>T <cwilper at duraspace.org>im Donohue*

<cwilper at duraspace.org>*Ready to Go: DSpace 1.6 is Now Available*
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*Ithaca, NY* Today the DuraSpace <http://duraspace.org> organization
announced the long-awaited release of DSpace
1.6<http://www.dspace.org/current-release/latest-release>,
the popular turn-key open source application for managing and providing
access to digital content used to create more than 800 repository instances
worldwide. The release of DSpace 1.6 was led by Stuart Lewis, community
release manager and IT Innovations analyst and developer at the University
of Auckland Librar <http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/>y. Lewis worked
closely with DSpace developers, community members and DuraSpace staff to
make the best possible version of DSpace 1.6 publicly available.

Download DSpace 1.6 here:
http://www.dspace.org/current-release/latest-release/

Bram Luyten, @mire (http://atmire.com/), who is an active DSpace community
member commented, "Both from an end-user perspective, as well as the
administrator side of things, this release is a great leap forward."

Community-requested features in the new release include an enhanced
statistics package which provides more information about how your repository
is being used, an embargo facility so items can be kept dark for a period of
time, and a batch metadata editing tool which can be used to change, add,
find/replace metadata as well as facilitate mass moves, re-order values or
add new items in bulk. And there's more such as authority control which
contains an integration with the Sherpa Romeo Service for publisher names,
as well as the Library of Congress Nameservice. Other new features include:

    •Delegated administration
    •OpenSearch
    •Command launcher
    •OAI-PMH harvesting of items from remote repositories
    •Configurable OAI-PMH dublin core output
    •Move item functionality in XMLUI
    •If-Modified-Since / Last-Modified header support in XMLUI
    •Change to logging behaviour to ensure better log retention and
management
    •Update to the latest handle server library
    •Ability to perform batch imports and exports from zip files of items
    •New test scripts to test database and email settings
    •Ability to set legal jurisdiction in creative commons licensing

Ina Smith, University of Stellenbosch
<http://www.sun.ac.za/university/> Repository
Manager, explains what the release of DSpace 1.6 will mean for her
institution:

"The University of Stellenbosch (www.sun.ac.za), one of the top research
institutions on the African continent, has been using DSpace since 2007. We
take the digital preservation of our most valuable asset – i.e. research
output by our researchers – very seriously. Our focus on digital
preservation made DSpace an obvious choice as a platform to host our varied
digital assets. As part of our digital preservation management strategy we
regard upgrading to DSpace 1.6 as a given, thereby guaranteeing continued
access to digital objects. At the same time various instances of DSpace
running at our institution will be integrated into this new DSpace version.
We are proud to be one of the early adopters of DSpace 1.6, and together
with add-on’s obtained from @mire are looking forward to providing new
functionality to benefit our researchers and the rest of the international
research community. Thank you to the DSpace community for the work you do,
and for sharing DSpace with those who do not necessarily have expertise and
resources. You can visit the ‘new’ repository of the University of
Stellenbosch – SUNScholar – at scholar.sun.ac.za. Currently DSpace is used
by 12 South African institutions (http://ir.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/List),
which includes the major research institutions."

*More Information About DSpace 1.6*
• Join Stuart Lewis, the DSpace 1.6 community release manager, who will
offer an overview of  the lastest release and how it can help you manage
your repository. This free DuraSpace/SPARC "All About Repositories" web
seminar <http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtm> will
highlight new Fedora 3.3 and DSpace 1.6 features on March 17, 2010 at 2:00
p.m. ET. Register for the web seminar here:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml.

• Lewis has published a blog post explaining what key changes and
improvements in DSpace 1.6 will mean for you.  Read the post here:
http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2010/02/10/dspace-1-6-what-will-be-in-it-for-me
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• The February issue of the DSpace Newsletter features in-depth information
about DSpace 1.6. Read the newsletter here:
http://www.dspace.org/newsletter-newspace/NewSpace-Volume-3-Issue-19.html

*About DSpace*
DSpace (http://Dspace.org) is an out-of-the-box open source repository
application for delivering digital content to end-users. Globally it is the
most widely used open source repository software for institutional
repositories and open access repositories. DSpace has been installed all
over the world by organizations, especially libraries, as a way to provide
access to research output, scholarly publications, library collections, and
more. The DSpace application has many features and tools for managing
digital content and enabling digital preservation. DSpace stores any type of
content and offers built-in workflows for content submission and review.
Organizations can easily make their digital collections available on the Web
using DSpace's customizable end user interfaces along with many
community-developed features and utilities.

*About DuraSpace*
DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org) 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, the Fedora open repository platform, and the Mulgara semantic
database.  DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud, 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.”