<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from DuraSpace. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><h1 style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b></font></h1>
<p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2">May 20, 2010</font></p>
<p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2">Contact: Carol Minton Morris, 607 255-2702; <a href="mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255)"><u>cmmorris[at]duraspace.org</u></span></a></font></p>
<p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><h1 style="margin:0pt"><font size="4"><b>DuraSpace Launches Sponsorship Program</b></font></h1>
<p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"><i>Ithaca, NY </i></font><font size="2">DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has launched its 2010 Sponsorship Program (<a href="http://durasspace.org/spsponsorship.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255)"><u>http://DurasSpace.org/sponsorship.php</u></span></a></font><font size="2">) 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 (<a href="http://dspace.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255)"><u>http://DSpace.org/</u></span></a></font><font size="2">) and Fedora (<a href="http://fedora-commons.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255)"><u>http://Fedora-commons.org/</u></span></a></font><font size="2">) open source software for digital repositories. Sponsors contribute at three levels of giving (<a href="http://duraspace.org/sponsorshiplevels.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255)"><u>http://DuraSpace.org/sponsorshiplevels.php</u></span></a></font><font size="2">) as an investment in community-driven approaches to preserving our digital heritage. </font></p>
<p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><h1 style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"><b>Providing leadership and advocacy</b></font></h1>
<p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2">DuraSpace (<a href="http://duraspace.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255)"><u>http://DuraSpace.org/</u></span></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="margin:0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2">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.”</font></p><p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><h1 style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"><b>About DuraSpace</b></font></h1>
<p style="margin:0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0pt"><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="margin:0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0pt"><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></div><font size="2"><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><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"><a style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" href="mailto:cmmorris@DuraSpace.org" target="_blank">cmmorris@DuraSpace.org</a><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Skype: carolmmorris</span><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">607 255-2702</span><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" href="http://twitter.com/duraspace" target="_blank">Twitter@DuraSpace</a><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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