DuraSpace Summit meeting

Baltimore, MdMarch 13,14 2013

…first we need to uncover the myths

• DuraSpace has teams of developers working on DSpace and Fedora

• DuraSpace is funded by the Moore foundation and others

• DuraSpace is DSpace on Fedora• Our sponsorship dollars are funding Duracloud• Bringing on more projects reduces effort on

existing projects

Who is DuraSpace? Not for profit 501c3 formed in 2009

Bringing together of the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Organization

Our mission

DuraSpace is committed to providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data.

We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage.

How is DuraSpace organized?Funded through

sponsorship,RSP programFunded through service

revenue and grants

Why we are here today?

Together we must develop a sustainable model for these projects

Total funds raised from sponsorship

$417,750 for Fy2012

How are the sponsorship funds spent?

Item DSpace Fedora

Staff(Tech lead, exec mgt, outreach, community programs)

244,000( 2.0 FTE) 221,666 (1.8 FTE)

Travel 20,000 20,000

Outsourced services 20,000 20,000

Infrastructure 7,000 7,000

Indirect cost allocation

45,000 45,000

Total 336,000 313,666

Sponsorship/RSP rev 258,750 186,000

Net diff (77,250) (127,666)

Together we need to increase the level of contribution and

engagement for both projects to ensure long term success

What do Open Source Projects Need to Thrive?

• Community contributions and engagement

• Great developers• Effective governance• Community support, partnerships, and

growth• Strategic direction and product roadmap• Sustainability planning

How does DuraSpace support projects?

• Executive leadership

• Technical leadership

• Community outreach

• Communications/promotion

• Business administration

How does VIVO fit in?

• VIVO worked with DuraSpace to develop initial funding and governance

• It compensates DuraSpace for services provided

• DuraSpace provides a legal home for VIVO

• VIVO is working with us to build a sustainable business model

How we fit as part of the larger ecosystem of scholarship

• Our focus is durability and preservation• We support the core building blocks for

access, management and preservation• We provide strategic guidance and

technical expertise on many projects that use our software or are important to our community

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• $63,705 – digital infrastructure and services (5)• DPN• DuraSpace• Educopia/MetaArchive Cooperative• HathiTrust• LOCKSS Alliance

• $59,199 – community convening / issue leadership (6)• ARL• ASERL• CLIR/DLF• CNI• Educopia/Library Publishing Coalition• SPARC

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Ex.: VT Libraries’ participationEx.: VT Libraries’ participation

Running the numbers…Running the numbers…

• $122,904 grand total / $17,218,391 (Total 2012-13 Virginia Tech Libraries state budget)

• =0.007% of Libraries budget

(seven one-thousandths of one percent!)

• $87,500 software developer (salary plus benefits [$75,000 salary and 25% benefits])

• $122,904 represents 1.4 FTE software developers and no one else

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For ~$123,000 we get…For ~$123,000 we get…• Shared scanned book / journal repository and research

initiatives – HathiTrust

• Distributed, international digital preservation network based on one software platform – MetaArchive

• Distributed digital preservation network focused on published literature, development projects coordination, stewardship of software – LOCKSS Alliance

• Distributed digital preservation network across technology stacks/platforms – DPN

• Coordination of development projects and stewardship of core repository technologies, DSpace, Fedora, and DuraCloud

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Communities of practice and knowledge sharing …

Communities of practice and knowledge sharing …

• Research library practices and experimentation

(ARL, ASERL)

• IT-Library collaboration and digital library initiatives (CNI, CLIR/DLF)

• Library-based publishing services and co-creating service models, technologies etc. (LPC)

• Advocacy for open access to scholarly and scientific information (SPARC)

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Other real costs?Other real costs?Yes, there are more digital infrastructure/service costs:

•Other library personnel involved, but they are leveraged with personnel from other libraries participating in a given initiative

•There are also physical resource costs – ex. as distributed preservation networks grow so too must individual nodes – though this isn’t terribly expensive

What do you think of this ROI?

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Table Discussion

• What have you heard today?• What do you have concerns about?• What has inspired you?• What unanswered questions do you

have?

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• What continued investment do the projects need to be successful?

• What are ways to increase engagement and contribution in the community?

Day 2 Summit Meeting

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DSpace

• What does the project need to be successful?

• Financial contributions• Developer contributions• Articulation of requirements

• How to increase engagement with the community?– New models of funding ( membership?)– -Stronger project governance?– Other forms of communication?

Breakouts

• How should we fund the continued management and stewardship of DSpace?

• What is the best way to increase developer activity on the project?

• What governance should be put in place for the project?

DSpace Futures Meetings

• Oct / Nov 2012• 5 discussions with Sponsors, RSPs,

Committers, DCAT• Open feedback and discussion of

needs / requirements for future versions of DSpace

• How institutions are using DSpace• What meets their needs & where

“gaps” exist

DSpace Futures Initiatives

• Official REST API• Possible DSpace + Hydra Integration• Metadata Improvements (March 20)

– Update DSpace to latest Qualified Dublin Core

– Other improvements TBD

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Futures

Initiative Teams

• Lead / Co-Leads• Steering Committee

– may be optional for small initiatives

• Developers• DuraSpace in a supporting / advisory

role