From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Mon Oct 13 10:24:32 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:24:32 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] The Archivematica + DuraCloud Preservation Service Beta Test Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Oct. 13, 2014 Contact: Michele Kimpton (mkimpton at duraspace.org); Evelyn McLellan ( evelyn at artefactual.com) Read it online: http://bit.ly/1CdhUj9 *The Archivematica + DuraCloud ?Soup-to-Nuts? Preservation Service Beta Test* The Archivematica + DuraCloud hosted service has launched a beta test with pilot partners that will be ongoing from October 2014 to January 2015. The organizations participating in the pilot are: Berea College (http://www.berea.edu/) The Huntington Library (http://huntington.org/) Illinois Wesleyan University (https://www.iwu.edu/) Kansas State University (http://ksu.edu/) North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: State Archive and State Library (http://www.ncdcr.gov/) Pepperdine University (http://www.pepperdine.edu/) Phillips Academy (http://www.andover.edu/) University of Texas at San Antonio (http://utsa.edu/) University of Washington (http://www.washington.edu/) Ensuring that robust Archivematica Archival Information Packages (AIPs) have a secure long-term home is the idea behind the new Archivematica + DuraCloud hosted service. The new integrated service is designed to provide users with a robust preservation workflow plus long-?term archiving in a single hosted solution. The DuraCloud cloud?-based archiving and preservation service platform manages and preserves digital objects. DuraCloud enables user management and preservation of content without locking into a single cloud provider. DuraCloud also features value?-added services such as regular bit-?level health checks for all content stored in DuraCloud. The platform is open-?source and free to download, but also available as a hosted solution from DuraSpace. Archivematica is an open?-source tool for ingesting digital objects and preparing them for long?-term preservation. Archivematica accommodates a variety of OAIS-?based digital curation workflows, and provides a flexible framework for normalizing ingested digital objects to durable, preservation-?friendly formats. The system performs a series of preservation micro?services and generates Archival Information Packages (AIPs) consisting of the ingested digital objects, any normalized preservation masters generated during processing, and detailed PREMIS metadata packaged into standard METS XML files. The powerful combined Archivematica + DuraCloud service meets all 21 aspects of managing and preserving digital objects identified by the IMLS funded white paper ?From Theory to Action ", which analyzes and compares digital preservation solutions for under-resourced institutions. The service will be launched to the general public early 2015, based on the completion of a successful pilot. *More Information* If your organization is interested in learning more about the new Archivematica + DuraCloud service please contact Michele Kimpton ( mkimpton at duraspace.org), Evelyn McLellan (evelyn at artefactual.com), or complete the inquiry form at http://duracloud.org/archivematica. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From achass at email.unc.edu Tue Oct 21 14:32:43 2014 From: achass at email.unc.edu (Chassanoff, Alex) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:32:43 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Announcement: BitCurator Access! Message-ID: Hi all, Just wanted to share our good news and announce the next phase of the BitCurator project, BitCurator Access. More info below. Thanks for reading! Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Improving Access to Born-Digital Collections for Collecting Institutions Release date: October 21, 2014 CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has received a grant for $750,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project that focuses on simplifying and improving access to the contents of disk images in born-digital collections for use by libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs). The BitCurator Access project will develop open-source software that supports the provision of access to disk images through three exploratory approaches: (1) building tools to support web-based services, (2) enabling the export of file systems and associated metadata, (3) and the use of emulation environments. Also closely associated with these access goals is redaction. BitCurator Access will develop tools to redact files, file system metadata, and targeted bitstreams within disks or directories. BitCurator Access builds on previous work of the BitCurator project, a three-year, collaborative effort between SILS and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. The project developed, packaged and documented open-source digital forensics tools to allow LAMs to advance many core digital curation goals, including: creation of authentic copies of data on disks; reflection of the original order of materials; establishment of more trustworthy chains of custody; discovery and exposure of associated contextual information; and identification of sensitive information that should be filtered, redacted or masked in appropriate ways. "Many LAMs within the US and internationally are using these tools and methods to generate disk images, extract metadata to support ongoing preservation tasks, and store the resulting data in dedicated servers or shared network spaces," said Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee, principal investigator of the BitCurator Access project. "However, there is currently very limited support for provision of access to the contents of the disk images or associated metadata." Kam Woods, Research Scientist at SILS, will be the Co-Principle Investigator and Technical Lead for the BitCurator Access project. Sunitha Misra, a recent graduate of SILS' MSIS program, will serve as software developer. Alexandra Chassanoff, a SILS doctoral candidate, will serve as the Project Manager. An advisory group of external partners with significant relevant experience will provide guidance and expertise. For more information about the project, please visit the main BitCurator web site at: bitcurator.net and follow @bitcurator on Twitter. Alexandra Chassanoff Doctoral Candidate, School of Information and Library Science BitCurator Project Manager http://achass.web.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Mon Oct 27 09:38:28 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:38:28 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] =?utf-8?q?New_Open_Source_Preservation_Solution?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=94Run_Archivematica_1=2E3=2E0_Locally_or_in_DuraC?= =?utf-8?q?loud?= Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* October 27, 2014 Contact: Michele Kimpton (mkimpton at duraspace.org) or Evelyn McLellan ( evelyn at artefactual.com) Read it online: bit.ly/ZTDufZ *Open Source Preservation Solution?Run Archivematica 1.3.0 Locally or in DuraCloud* *Archivematica 1.3.0 Features Full DuraCloud Integration* *Winchester, MA* Artefactual has announced the release of Archivematica 1.3.0 with full DuraCloud integration. Archivematica is an open source digital preservation system with a web-based dashboard for ingesting digital holdings and generating Archival Information Packages (AIPs). DuraCloud is an open source cloud?-based archiving and preservation service platform that manages and preserves digital objects in secure, replicated storage. Archivematica 1.3.0 now features the ability to configure the storage option to deposit AIPs into DuraCloud archival cloud storage via the web-based dashboard. Institutions and organizations may now choose to implement the Archivematica open source preservation stack in-house, or to take advantage of the DuraCloud hosted service for long-term secure archival storage directly from their hosted Archivematica dashboard. Archivematica 1.3.0 is production-ready and now available for download here: https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Installation The key new feature in the Archivematica 1.3.0 release is the ability to manage all storage functionality in DuraCloud, specifically: ?Ability to store Archival Information Packages (AIPs) in DuraCloud ?Ability to store Dissemination Information Packages (DIPs) in DuraCloud ?Ability to synchronize a local copy with a remote copy in DuraCloud ?Working with Artefactual to integrate our two software platforms means that if you use Archivematica locally, you can now upload content into your DuraCloud account,? explained DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton, ?or add the open source software to your in-house technology stack. Either way it provides Institutions with a complete end to end open source solution.? Evelyn McLellan, President of Artefactual systems: ?Having both local and cloud-based storage options available to Archivematica users helps us to offer our communities additional ways to preserve and protect their digital holdings.? *More Information about Archivematica and/or DuraCloud* If your organization is interested in learning more about Archivematica ( www.archivematica.org) and/or the DuraCloud (www.duracloud.org) service, please contact Michele Kimpton (mkimpton at duraspace.org) or Evelyn McLellan ( evelyn at artefactual.com), or complete the inquiry form at http://duracloud.org/archivematica. *About Artefactual Systems* Artefactual's mission is to provide the heritage community with vital expertise and technology in the domains of digital preservation and online access. We develop open-source software and promote open standards as the best means of enabling archives, libraries and museums to preserve and provide access to society's cultural assets. We are archivists, librarians, software developers, systems administrators and systems technicians, all working together to advance the capacity of heritage institutions to meet their mandates in a rapidly changing world. http://www.artefactual.com/. *About DuraSpace* DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve libraries, universities, research centers, for managing and preserving digital content. 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, an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content. http://duraspace.org/. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Tue Oct 28 11:40:24 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:40:24 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Letter from DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton Message-ID: October 28, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1zetRaY Dear Community, It is bittersweet as I announce my departure from DuraSpace. Over the last eight years it has been an honor and privilege to work closely with the DSpace, Fedora and most recently VIVO communities to advance the software and create a sustainable pathway for each project. I have enjoyed working closely with the community to chart a pathway to collaboratively develop a research and scholarship ecosystem for managing and preserving all academic knowledge and works. Projects such as DPN, SHARE and DPLA all have great potential for providing long term managed access to knowledge and scholarship. Today we kick-off the search process to find the next CEO for DuraSpace. You can find the job description on our website (http://duraspace.org/jobs). The search committee will be screening applications as they are received. We expect to fill the position by January 2015. The position is based in the USA, however no relocation is required. It is anticipated the new CEO will set up a local office at their current location. The search committee is primarily composed of a subset of members from the DuraSpace board, and will be reviewing applications as they are received. You can submit a cover letter and application to ceo at duraspace.org. Please feel free to contact me (mkimpton at duraspace.org) or someone from DuraSpace if you have any questions. Best, Michele Kimpton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oyr1 at cornell.edu Wed Oct 29 08:39:43 2014 From: oyr1 at cornell.edu (Oya Yildirim Rieger) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:39:43 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Director of Preservation Services, Cornell University Library Message-ID: <1fdc6d20ad264792a0378e338b924999@DM2PR04MB656.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> Dear Colleagues - We welcome your nominations and please feel free to forward the appended announcement to individuals who might be interested in the position. Many thanks in advance, - Oya ===================================== Director of Preservation Services Cornell University Library (CUL) seeks a service-minded and collaborative professional to coordinate the Library's overall preservation and conservation program including both physical and digital materials. Reporting directly to the Associate University Librarian who provides leadership for collections and digital scholarship & preservation services, the Director of Digital Preservation Services will play a key role in creating a cohesive preservation framework for the Library and collaborate closely with Library staff involved in preservation activities. The key responsibilities include: Collaborating with CUL staff involved in digital preservation services and other Cornell stakeholders interested in preservation, the director will coordinate the Library's overall preservation and conservation program (supervisory responsibilities to be determined) - 40% - Facilitate communication among different teams involved in preservation and curation, especially in regard to needs assessment, resource planning, and priority setting within the context of long-term preservation and access to collections - Foster a shared understanding of CUL's diverse preservation services, initiatives, and memberships for different content types, including Cornell University Library Archival Repository (CULAR), Archive-It, 2CUL e-journal preservation initiative, HathiTrust, Portico, LOCKSS, DPN, etc. Assuming responsibility for planning, managing and implementing the well-developed and accomplished preservation and conservation of physical circulating and rare collections for Cornell University Library (https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/prescon/Home) - supervising six staff members - 30% - Work with Library and conservation staff to promote standards and guidelines for the general care, handling, and treatment of library materials. - Assess preservation needs for all CUL units and serve as a resource on preservation issues for Cornell University. Contributing to the Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) programs (such as digital media production/reformatting, repository services, web design/usability, scholarly communication, digital humanities services) by contributing to grant writing, fostering collaborations, promoting the unit's services, and assessing needs to improve the unit's services based on broad input from CUL and CU (http://blogs.cornell.edu/dsps/) - 30% For the full job description, please see: https://cornellu.taleo.net/careersection/10164/jobdetail.ftl?job=25665 Oya Y. Rieger, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services arXiv Program Director Cornell University Library http://vivo.cornell.edu/display/individual23129 From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Wed Oct 29 13:04:31 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:04:31 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] NEWS RELEASE: Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* October 29, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/ZZCJSK *Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot* *A step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy* The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is a federation of more than 50 academic institutional members who are collaboratively developing the means to preserve the complete scholarly record for future generations. DPN has launched a Member Content Pilot program as a step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy. The pilot is testing real-world interactions between DPN members through DPN ?nodes? that ingest data from members of the Digital Preservation Network and package it for preservation storage. Three DPN nodes (Chronopolis/Duracloud, The Texas Preservation Node, and the Stanford Digital Repository) will be functioning as First Nodes. All five DPN nodes (the three named above along with APTrust and HathiTrust) will be providing replication services for the pilot data. The higher education community has created many digital repositories to provide long-term preservation and access. DPN replicates multiple dark copies of these collections in diverse nodes to protect against the risk of catastrophic loss due to technology, organizational or natural disasters. Participating DPN Member Content Pilot members include Chronopolis, University of California San Diego; Dartmouth University; the DuraSpace organization; Texas Preservation Node and; Yale University. Steven Morales, DPN Chief Business Officer, is pleased with pilot project progress. ?The DPN Technical Working group, comprised of the five Replicating Nodes for DPN, have done a phenomenal job linking together their existing repositories, he said, It feels great to be at a point where we can begin testing the network with real content.? *The pilot provides:* ? A functioning preservation network capable of Services sufficient to allow First Nodes to accepting and replicating Member Pilot content and replicate it to Replicating Nodes using the developing DPN network. ? Opportunity for all participating Members and First Nodes to play out a realistic content deposit scenario and to discuss and capture the requirements and questions raised. ? A preliminary report to the DPN membership regarding results. *DPN Timeline* In 2012 DPN was launched with the support of founding member institutions. By 2013 replicating nodes had been brought together to begin building the network, software and messaging system. 2014 has been a testing year. This summer three rounds of successful internal testing was completed. In the current phase real member content is being tested as DPN members have joined together as ?first nodes?. Content has been identified and prepared for packaging into DPN ?bags?. Through the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 multiple rounds of testing will be ongoing. A soft launch of a production system will be available in the summer of 2015 through the end of 2016 with all member schools participating. *About The Digital Preservation Network* The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) will ensure that the complete scholarly record is preserved for future generations. It will be the long-term preservation solution shared collectively across the academy that protect local and consortia preservation efforts against all types of catastrophic failure. The supporting ecosystem enables higher education to own, maintain and control the scholarly record throughout time. While commercial entities may partner with us to contribute to this effort at different points in time depending on priorities and business models, final control must reside with the academy. http://www.dpn.org/. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mkimpton at duraspace.org Wed Oct 29 13:42:08 2014 From: mkimpton at duraspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:42:08 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Corrected version: Digital Preservation Network(DPN)launches member content pilot Message-ID: <3D4E8AF2-27B2-4DEB-8F51-101885AAC4BF@duraspace.org> ==CORRECT VERSION== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/ZZCJSK Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot A step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is a federation of more than 50 academic institutional members who are collaboratively developing the means to preserve the complete scholarly record for future generations. DPN has launched a Member Content Pilot program as a step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy. The pilot is testing real-world interactions between DPN members through DPN ?nodes? that ingest data from members of the Digital Preservation Network and package it for preservation storage. Three DPN nodes (Chronopolis/Duracloud, The Texas Preservation Node, and the Stanford Digital Repository) will be functioning as First Nodes. All five DPN nodes (the three named above along with APTrust and HathiTrust) will be providing replication services for the pilot data. The higher education community has created many digital repositories to provide long-term preservation and access. DPN replicates multiple dark copies of these collections in diverse nodes to protect against the risk of catastrophic loss due to technology, organizational or natural disasters. Participating DPN Member Content Pilot members include Chronopolis, University of California San Diego; Dartmouth University; the DuraSpace organization; Stanford University; Texas Preservation Node and; Yale University. Steven Morales, DPN Chief Business Officer, is pleased with pilot project progress. ?The DPN Technical Working group, comprised of the five Replicating Nodes for DPN, have done a phenomenal job linking together their existing repositories, he said, It feels great to be at a point where we can begin testing the network with real content.? The pilot provides: ? A functioning preservation network capable of Services sufficient to allow First Nodes to accepting and replicating Member Pilot content and replicate it to Replicating Nodes using the developing DPN network. ? Opportunity for all participating Members and First Nodes to play out a realistic content deposit scenario and to discuss and capture the requirements and questions raised. ? A preliminary report to the DPN membership regarding results. DPN Timeline In 2012 DPN was launched with the support of founding member institutions. By 2013 replicating nodes had been brought together to begin building the network, software and messaging system. 2014 has been a testing year. This summer three rounds of successful internal testing was completed. In the current phase real member content is being tested as DPN members have joined together as ?first nodes?. Content has been identified and prepared for packaging into DPN ?bags?. Through the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 multiple rounds of testing will be ongoing. A soft launch of a production system will be available in the summer of 2015 through the end of 2016 with all member schools participating. About The Digital Preservation Network The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) will ensure that the complete scholarly record is preserved for future generations. It will be the long-term preservation solution shared collectively across the academy that protect local and consortia preservation efforts against all types of catastrophic failure. The supporting ecosystem enables higher education to own, maintain and control the scholarly record throughout time. While commercial entities may partner with us to contribute to this effort at different points in time depending on priorities and business models, final control must reside with the academy. http://www.dpn.org/. -- Michele Kimpton Chief Executive Officer DuraSpace organization mkimpton at duraspace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From LMotyka at flvc.org Wed Oct 29 17:15:25 2014 From: LMotyka at flvc.org (Lydia Motyka) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:15:25 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Manager, Digital Library Services, Florida Virtual Library Message-ID: Apologies for any cross-postings. The Florida Virtual Campus has an interesting job opportunity for a new Manager of Digital Library Services (http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/17959/): SUMMARY: This position reports to the Director of Library Services of the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC). This position leads the Digital Services workgroup and is located at the Gainesville office. The primary responsibilities for this position include managing the Digital Services workgroup, which helps the libraries of the public university and college systems of Florida create, manage, maintain and preserve digital information resources. The Digital Services workgroup: *provides applications to support digital special collections and archives, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), archival finding aids (EADs), electronic journals, and/or other born-digital and retrospectively digitized materials; *runs the Florida Digital Archive, a long-term preservation repository for digital materials; *provides training, documentation, and technical support for these applications, and works with CSUL MCLS committees as appropriate to ensure the needs of the libraries are met; * manages statewide resources, including Florida on Florida. Thanks, Lydia T. Motyka Phone: (352) 415-6800 www.flvc.org [http://www.flvc.org/flvc/wcm/connect/973877804c157f06bf0fbf03d5007be9/FLVC_logo_symbol_medium.png?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=973877804c157f06bf0fbf03d5007be9] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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