4Science will attend the DSpace North America User meeting: There’s something really special about this community getting together in person, and the fact that it’s happening at Harvard’s Lamont Library, in the heart of Harvard Yard, makes it all the more exciting! A heartfelt thank you to Harvard Library and LYRASIS for making this possible – we genuinely can’t wait.
This is also the first time the North American DSpace community meets since DSpace 10 brought DSpace and DSpace-CRIS together into one unified platform. For us this is deeply personal: it’s the fruit of years of work, late nights, and a shared belief in what open repository infrastructure can be. Being in the room with the people who shaped this alongside us is going to be emotional, honestly 😊
Our Presentation
We will be presenting “Towards the integration of CORE into DSpace” – a conversation we care about a lot with CORE’s team, about how open infrastructure can genuinely work as one. CORE’s extraordinary aggregation of open access content meets our deep love for repositories, and the vision is simple: make research more visible, more connected, more open. Basically, bulding bridges instead of centralizing knowledge, because we believe in a distributed, collaborative future for scholarly infrastructure – and this talk is very much about that!
A proud moment
On a personal note, we are so looking forward to hearing Emily Crawford from the State Library of Massachusetts share her team’s story of migrating to DSpace-GLAM. We had the joy of walking alongside Emily, Stacy, and Judy through that whole journey, and seeing them take the stage to tell it in their own words genuinely fills us with pride.
If you’re around, please come say hi: we love nothing more than a good long chat over coffee about repositories, open access, and whatever comes next.
Full program & registration → https://wiki.lyrasis.org/spaces/DSPACE/pages/425330012/2026+DSpace+North+American+User+Group+Meeting
See you in Cambridge!
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