[Rdap] NEWS RELEASE: VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative

Wed Jul 25 13:22:44 EDT 2012

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
July 25, 2012
Contact: Kristi L. Holmes ( <holmeskr at wusm.wustl.edu>holmeskr at wustl.edu); Carol
Minton Morris, (cmmorris at duraspace.org)

 Read it online: http://bit.ly/MGH8Tb

*VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative*
*DuraSpace Incubator to help VIVO sustain technologies and communities for
linking information about researchers and research *

*Winchester, MA * VIVO Project leaders and the DuraSpace organization
announced today the intention for VIVO to join DuraSpace as an Incubator
project, the first step towards establishing the VIVO project as part of a
sustainable 501(c)(3) organization. DuraSpace leads the development and
improvement of open technologies that provide long-term, durable access to
digital assets and is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit born from a
vision to help save our shared scholarly, scientific and cultural
record. DuraSpace will provide VIVO with infrastructure and guidance to
continue support for a diverse array of project efforts while continuing to
develop the core VIVO software and expand the VIVO community.

Research, library and cultural memory communities require efficient methods
for describing and linking researchers and research, which is a natural
connection point for VIVO, a semantic web-based researcher and research
discovery tool that exposes self-describing data via shared ontologies, and
DuraSpace, provider of software and services as solutions for open access,
institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital archives, data
curation and virtual research environments. VIVO will be the first
DuraSpace incubated project based on an open source incubator project model
that provides access to expanded community affiliations, organizational
tools, and mentorship towards adopting open source best practices.

VIVO is committed to facilitating the advancement of research and discovery
by integrating and sharing information about scholars, scholarly
activities, and scholarly outputs using Semantic Web technologies.
Development and enhancement of the VIVO platform along with associated
tools, standards, data, services, and expertise will continue to the
benefit of all interested parties.  VIVO is a fully open platform with a
growing worldwide community focused on the collection, connection, sharing,
and discovery of information about research. The relationship with
DuraSpace ensures that these efforts can move forward efficiently in a
sustainable fashion.

The VIVO team looks forward to sharing more information about this
development at the 2012 VIVO Conference, August 22-24 in Miami, FL. The
conference will provide an opportunity to hear from VIVO and DuraSpace
leadership about the details of the partnership, ask questions, and learn
how institutions and organizations can get involved in the effort. Please
consider joining us at the conference for this exciting discussion. For
more information about the conference, please visit
http://vivoweb.org/conference.**

*About VIVO*

VIVO is an open source semantic web application for integrating and sharing
information about researchers and their activities and outputs at a single
institution while supporting discovery of related work and expertise across
a distributed network. VIVO is fundamentally interdisciplinary; it enables
and promotes the discovery of research and scholarship across traditional
boundaries of geography, organization structure and type, academic or
clinical or applied domain, technology, language, and culture.

There is a diverse collection of activities associated with the VIVO
project, across federal agencies, academic institutions, professional
societies, and data providers, as well as a variety of efforts with the
Semantic Web and ontology development communities. Significant partners
include CASRAI (Consortium Advancing Standards in Research Administration
Information), euroCRIS (Current Research Information Systems) and the ORCID
(Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Initiative.  Producers of
VIVO-compliant data include: the USDA (United States Department of
Agriculture), Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium
institutions, the American Psychological Association and the Publish Trust
Project, Symplectic Limited, the Australian-based ANDS VIVO project, and a
growing number of institutional VIVO implementers around the world. For
more information about VIVO, please visit: http://vivoweb.org.

*About DuraSpace*

DuraSpace is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded
in 2009 when the Fedora Commons organization and the DSpace Foundation, two
of the largest providers of open source repository software, joined to
pursue a common mission to preserve our shared scholarly, scientific and
cultural record. The DuraSpace community includes more than 1,500 worldwide
institutions that use DSpace or Fedora open source repository software to
provide durable access to documents, imagery and media. 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. For more information please visit: http://duraspace.org.

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
Twitter at DuraCloud <http://twitter.com/duracloud>
http://DuraSpace.org
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