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<font color="#000000">Feb. 4, 2014</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/1fEw84t" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1fEw84t</a><br></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><p style="margin:1em 0px;line-height:18px"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><font size="4" color="#000000">Be Part of Defining the Future of DSpace: Participate in the DSpace Vision Survey</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><font color="#000000"><em style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Winchester, MA</em><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> What should a new, modernized DSpace application be like?</span><br>
</font></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">DSpace 1.0 was released on November 4, 2002. More than ten years later DSpace remains the most-used institutional repository software in the world providing preservation of, and access to millions of precious digital objects in more than 1,800 repositories.</font></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dspacevision" target="_blank">DSpace Vision Survey</a>, compiled by the DSpace Vision Group consisting of DuraSpace staff members, DSpace Committers, DSpace Community Advisory Team members, and other DSpace community members, was facilitated by DuraSpace. The survey aims to gather the collective thoughts of the DSpace user community in order to define and shape the future of DSpace over the coming years. Now that DSpace is 10+ years old, it’s time to reflect on how far it has come and where it is going.</font></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">An initial DSpace Vision meeting was held in May of 2013, followed by a community session at Open Repositories 2013 that resulted in achieving consensus on broad goals and directions. These can be <a href="http://duraspace.org/sites/duraspace.org/files/u3/DSpace%20vision.pdf" target="_blank">viewed here</a> (PDF).</font></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The DSpace Vision Group will analyze survey data to refine these initial goals and directions. It consists of four pages and will take 10-minutes to complete. You may comment on what you think DSpace is, what functionality it should offer in the future, and what systems it should integrate with. The <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dspacevision" target="_blank">DSpace Vision Survey</a> will be open until the end of February. Feel free to answer as an individual, or to submit a single response from your organization:</font></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dspacevision" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dspacevision</a></font></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">THANK YOU for joining the exciting conversation about the future direction and development of DSpace by completing the <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dspacevision" target="_blank">DSpace Vision Survey</a> (<a href="http://duraspace.org/sites/duraspace.org/files/u3/Survey_DSpaceVision.pdf" target="_blank">download the PDF version</a>).</font></p>
</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br>607 592-3135<br><a href="http://twitter.com/duraspace" target="_blank">Twitter@DuraSpace</a><br>
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