<font size="2"><b><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>ONLINE: <a href="http://duraspace.org/content/duraspace-launches-2011-community-sponsorship-program">http://duraspace.org/content/duraspace-launches-2011-community-sponsorship-program</a><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
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<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">May 5, 2011</font></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Contact: Valorie Hollister </font><a href="mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org" target="_blank"><u><font size="2"></font></u></a><u><font size="2"><a href="mailto:vhollister@duraspace.org" target="_blank"><u>vhollister@duraspace.org</u></a></font></u></p>
<font size="2"></font><p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"></p><p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="4"><b>DuraSpace Launches 2011 Community Sponsorship Program</b></font></p><p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><i>Ithaca, NY </i></font><font size="2">The challenges
of preserving and providing access to researcher data continue to grow
and the stakes remain high. DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit organization, has launched its 2011 Community Sponsorship Program </font><font size="2">to
engage leaders from university and library communities in supporting
the common goal of ensuring that our scholarly record of digital content
and data is saved and accessible for future generations. <br></font></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Community sponsors contribute at three levels of giving (<a href="http://duraspace.org/sponsors" target="_blank"><u>http://DuraSpace.org/sponsors</u></a></font><font size="2">) as an investment in community-driven approaches to preserving our digital heritage. </font><font size="2">DuraSpace (<a href="http://duraspace.org/" target="_blank">http://DuraSpace.org</a>) is the home of the DSpace (<a href="http://dspace.org/" target="_blank"><u>http://DSpace.org/</u></a></font><font size="2">), Fedora (<a href="http://fedora-commons.org/" target="_blank"><u>http://Fedora-commons.org/</u></a></font><font size="2">) open source software for digital repositories and DuraCloud (<a href="http://duracloud.org/" target="_blank">http://DuraCloud.org</a>), a hosted service for managing your content in the cloud. </font><font size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>Providing leadership and community support</b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="2">DuraSpace (<a href="http://duraspace.org/" target="_blank"><u>http://DuraSpace.org/</u></a></font><font size="2">)
is committed to providing leadership and innovation in the development
and deployment of open technologies that promote durable, persistent
access to digital data.</font><font size="2"> </font><font size="2">Collaborators
include highly respected academic institutions, government agencies,
and scientific and cultural organizations. In addition to its work in
open source software and services, DuraSpace advocates for open access
to scholarly publications and for interoperability of the supporting
technologies. DuraSpace has helped to establish open standards and
protocols by working with other open source software projects and
working closely with commercial partners on integration strategies.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Ann J. Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusettes
Institute of Technology, offers this rationale for financial support of
the DuraSpace organization: “DuraSpace offers immediate solutions for
university libraries grappling with growing amounts of digital content
and data. By supporting their work, we are not only investing in the
future of our own digital repositories, but in the integrity of the
larger scholarly record as well.”</font></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>About DuraSpace </b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="2">DuraSpace 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 and the Fedora open
repository platform. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud (<a href="http://duracloud.org/" target="_blank">http://DuraCloud.org</a>),
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.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font size="2">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.”</font></p>
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">-- </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Carol Minton Morris</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">DuraSpace</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Director of Marketing and Communications</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">cmmorris@DuraSpace.org</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Skype: carolmintonmorris</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
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