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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">July 25, 2012</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Contact: </span>Kristi L. Holmes (<a href="mailto:holmeskr@wusm.wustl.edu" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:holmeskr@wustl.edu" target="_blank">holmeskr@wustl.edu</a>); <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Carol Minton Morris, (</span><a style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" href="mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org" target="_blank">cmmorris@duraspace.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</span><div>
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Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/MGH8Tb" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/MGH8Tb</a><br><br></span><font size="4"><b>VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative</b><br>
<i>DuraSpace Incubator to help VIVO sustain technologies and communities for linking information about researchers and research </i></font><br><br> <i>Winchester, MA </i> 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. <br><br>
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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> 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 <a href="http://vivoweb.org/conference" target="_blank">http://vivoweb.org/conference</a>.<b></b><br><br> <b>About VIVO</b><br><br>
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.<br><br> 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: <a href="http://vivoweb.org" target="_blank">http://vivoweb.org</a>.<br><br> <b>About DuraSpace</b><br><br>
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: <a href="http://duraspace.org" target="_blank">http://duraspace.org</a>.</div></div><span><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><div><div class="h5"><br>-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>
DuraSpace<br>
Director of Marketing and Communications<br>
cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br></div></div>
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