[Rdap] NEWS RELEASE: VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization as Incubated Project

[Carol Minton Morris]

*F**OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
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June 19, 2013
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Contact: Carol Minton Morris <cmmorris at duraspace.org>; Kristi Holmes <
kristi at vivoweb.org>
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1290LUN
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*VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization as Incubated Project*
*VIVO is a one-stop network of researchers, projects, and results that
enables collaborative research discovery and interdisciplinary scholarship.*

*Winchester, MA*  The DuraSpace organization and the VIVO Project are
pleased to announce that after initial fundraising and planning, VIVO is
entering an incubation period with DuraSpace. The incubation process will
focus on assisting VIVO in becoming a sustainable, community-driven
project; on continuing to develop new releases of the VIVO software and
ontology; and on expanding the VIVO community beyond the over 100
organizations currently engaged with the project.

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 of linked data profiles. VIVO is fundamentally
interdisciplinary in nature and enables collaboration across traditional
boundaries of geography, organizational structure, and type. Through the
discovery of researchers and their common interests, expertise, and
achievements, VIVO enables the identification of collaborative teams to
work across academic research, clinical, and applied domains.

There are diverse activities associated with the VIVO project, across
federal agencies, academic institutions, professional societies, for-profit
publishers, 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.  Adopters of the VIVO
platform include: the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, the American Psychological Association and
the Publish Trust Project, the Australian-based ANDS VIVO project, and a
growing number of universities around the world. Producers of
VIVO-compliant data also include: Clinical and Translational Science Award
(CTSA) Consortium institutions, Harvard Profiles, and Elements from
Symplectic Limited, and Elsevier's SciVal Experts. For more information
about VIVO, please visit: http://vivoweb.org.

*Connecting VIVO With the DuraSpace Community*

The DuraSpace Incubation Program assists open source projects that wish to
become part of the DuraSpace organization in order to become sustainable,
community-driven projects without having to establish a new not-for-profit
organization. By taking advantage of DuraSpace support services that
include executive leadership, technical leadership, community outreach,
communications, business development, and administration, (
http://duraspace.org/whatwedoprojects) projects minimize start-up and
administrative costs while connecting with well-established open source
development communities. VIVO and DuraSpace began efforts towards
establishing VIVO as a formal incubated project in July of 2012 (VIVO to
Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator
Initiative<http://duraspace.org/vivo-join-duraspace-organization-incubator-initiative>).
A list of sponsoring institutions and organizations can be found at
http://vivoweb.org/sponsorship.

Speaking for a founding VIVO sponsor with a significant institutional
presence in the VIVO community, Carton Rogers, Vice Provost and Director of
Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania said, *“Penn strongly supports
VIVO’s alliance with DuraSpace.  It ensures the sustainability of the VIVO
effort, and it signals the growing maturity of this exciting collaborative
enterprise. But most important, the connection with DuraSpace will drive
innovation that libraries and other campus services concerned with
knowledge management can offer their communities."*

Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and
Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Incubator Project Management Committee curated
a DuraSpace Hot Topics Community Webinar Series, VIVO–Research Discovery
and Networking, to introduce DuraSpace community to VIVO. The series of
three web seminars was held in May and June and offered diverse topics and
perspectives: “Overview of VIVO,” “Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown,
Duke, and Weill Cornell Medical College,” and wrapped up with “A VIVO
Technical Deep Dive.” A recording of these presentations along with the
presentation slides is now available at http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.

*The Fourth Annual VIVO Conference*

This year the 4th International VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis,
MO from Aug. 14-16, 2013 and features a unique program of presentations,
panels, posters, renowned invited speakers, an apps contest, and
collaboration opportunities.  The 2013 VIVO conference will explore how to
participate in and best take advantage of the emerging Linked Open Data
world encompassing and expanding our understanding of the rapidly growing
network of information describing and interlinking researchers and
research. More information is available at http://www.vivoweb.org/conference
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*About DuraSpace*

DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that
promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with
academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting
projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future
generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our values are
expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future."

DuraSpace supports open technology projects and provides long-term, durable
access to and discovery of digital assets. DSpace and Fedora are two of the
most widely-used digital repository solutions in the world with more than
fifteen hundred institutions that use and help develop these open source
software repository platforms.

DuraSpace also provides innovative solutions for the digital preservation
community to meet today’s access and preservation challenges with
subscription services that include DuraCloud, an easy and cost effective
way to archive, share and manage content in the cloud and DSpaceDirect, a
low-cost, hosted repository service due to launch in 2013.

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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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