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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> coar-member [mailto:coar-member-bounces@sub.uni-goettingen.de]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathleen Shearer via coar-member<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 06, 2018 7:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> members@coar-repositories.org; partners@coar-repositories.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Debra Hanken Kurtz <dkurtz@duraspace.org>; cmmorris@duraspace.org; Erin Tripp <etripp@duraspace.org>; Tim Donohue <tdonohue@duraspace.org>; Michele Mennielli <mmennielli@duraspace.org>; David Wilcox <dwilcox@duraspace.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [coar-member] Collaborative partnership between COAR and DuraSpace </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear COAR members and partners, </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m happy to report that today COAR entered into a formal partnership with DuraSpace. Please see the official announcement below, and I will keep you informed about the concrete activities following from this partnership, especially in
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<p class="MsoNormal">As always, if you have any question, please feel free to get in touch. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Kathleen </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">COAR and DuraSpace are pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative partnership.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Both organizations believe in a strong role for innovative open technologies to promote long-lasting and open access to digital data and information. In addition, we are jointly
committed to supporting the adoption of repository platforms that are interoperable, compliant with international standards and protocols, and reflect the vision of next generation repository.</span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">By working together, DuraSpace and COAR will leverage their unique strengths and communities to pursue our common goals. In particular, the partnership will focus on building
capacity in the repository community by delivering and participating in training events, with a special emphasis on developing countries; and promoting the value of open repositories with other communities internationally.</span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“At COAR, we are looking forward to working with the DuraSpace team to help enhance the skills of repository managers and support the adoption of the most up-to-date versions
of repository platforms,” says Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“<span style="color:#222222;background:white">We feel this collaboration will lead to practitioner empowerment and sustainability of the services built on the open repository
platforms we steward. Working with Kathleen and the COAR community will help us tap into the incredible talent and enthusiasm in open source communities as well as help us deliver on our mission of supporting projects and advancing services to help ensure
that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage” says Erin Trip, Interim CEO of DuraSpace.</span></span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“Our organizations have worked toward this partnership for so long. I am very pleased and grateful for this collaboration as I return to the community as a practitioner in
repositories,” says Debra Hanken Kurtz, outgoing CEO of DuraSpace.</span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ABOUT DURASPACE
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DuraSpace stewards two of the most widely adopted open source repositories, DSpace and Fedora, which manage research, scholarly, and other published content in a digital repository, focusing on long-term storage, access, and preservation. DuraSpace develops
global, strategic collaborations to sustain DSpace and Fedora, and VIVO, a semantic web platform that enables research discovery to create an integrated record of the scholarly work of an organization. More than 2,000 institutions use and help develop open
source software in partnership with DuraSpace. </span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ABOUT COAR</span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">COAR is a membership organization with over 130 members and partners from 40 countries on all 5 continents. COAR’s vision is a global knowledge commons based on the distributed
repository network, on which value added services can be built. COAR is platform agnostic and is committed to working with all organizations that share common principles and shared goals.
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