[BOAI] DuraSpace Launches Sponsorship Program

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from DuraSpace.  --Peter Suber.]


*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

May 20, 2010

Contact: Carol Minton Morris, 607 255-2702;
*cmmorris[at]duraspace.org*<cmmorris at duraspace.org>


*DuraSpace Launches Sponsorship Program*



*Ithaca, NY *DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization, has launched its 2010 Sponsorship Program (*
http://DurasSpace.org/sponsorship.php*<http://durasspace.org/spsponsorship.php>)
to engage leaders from university and library communities in supporting the
organization’s ongoing mission. DuraSpace provides open source software and
services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to
our collective digital heritage.  DuraSpace is the home of the DSpace (*
http://DSpace.org/* <http://dspace.org/>) and Fedora (*
http://Fedora-commons.org/* <http://fedora-commons.org/>) open source
software for digital repositories. Sponsors contribute at three levels of
giving (*http://DuraSpace.org/sponsorshiplevels.php*<http://duraspace.org/sponsorshiplevels.php>)
as an investment in community-driven approaches to preserving our digital
heritage.


*Providing leadership and advocacy*



DuraSpace (*http://DuraSpace.org/* <http://duraspace.org/>) is committed to
providing leadership and innovation in the development and deployment of
open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data.
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.



Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
(CNI) offers this rationale for financial support of the DuraSpace
organization: “DuraSpace is well positioned to focus resources and talent to
accelerate progress in areas critical to the research, education and
cultural memory communities.”


*About DuraSpace*



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 (
http://DuraCloud.org), 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.



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.”

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
 Skype: carolmmorris
607 255-2702
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
Twitter at DuraCloud <http://twitter.com/duracloud>
http://DuraSpace.org
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