Annual Report
FY2020-21

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Membership &User Community

DSpace’s rich 19-year history as an open source
repository is paired with a strong membership,
governance and active participation from a wide
variety of stakeholder organizations located all over
the world. Despite COVID-19, a global pandemic withlockdowns across the globe, the DSpace community
amped up its work and made vigorous progress indeveloping and deployment of DSpace 7.

In the last 12 months, the community released 3 Beta releases of DSpace 7. Following
DSpace 7 Beta 5, the community embarked on a two week testathon which led tothe final and now official stable release of DSpace 7.0. This latest stable version wasreleased on July 29, 2021.
This annual report will focus on the fiscal calendar year beginning July 1, 2020 - June 30,
2021 and the community achievements leading up to the release.
The DSpace Program is fostered by its global community. Representatives from member
organizations plan, implement, develop, and sustain DSpace with input from community
groups including DSpace Steering Group, DSpace Leadership Group, DSpace Committers,DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT), DSpace Marketing Interest Group, and DSpace
Ambassador Program.

Total Known Installations

Countries with Active Sites

3,051

133

New Members

DSpace 7 Beta Releases

0403

Total Members

DSpace YouTube Video Views

93200+(as of July 2021)

representing 23 different countries

4%
New
Installations

DSpace 7 Beta 3, Beta 4 and Beta 5

1819

1,026,797 lines of code changed/modified in DSpace 7TwitterFollowers(as of July 2021)

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DSpace Around the World Global Installations
The DSpace Community is the broadest open source repository community globally. In
the DSpace User Registry there are 3051 registered instances of DSpace. This is a 4%
increase from last fiscal year. There may be many more DSpace instances running thathave not registered.
The registry is located online at registry.duraspace.org/registry/dspace.

4About DSpace Members
DSpace members are leaders from university, research, library organizations, andothers, who have made a financial commitment to our open source programs.
DSpace members are partners in governance, active within the community to provide
leadership, development, documentation, contributions, and investments ensuring thesustainability and ongoing advancement of the DSpace program.
Between 2020 – June 30, 2021, DSpace gained 4 members:••••

Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC)
York University
University of Arizona
Universität des Saarlandes

Bringing the total number of DSpace members to 93.
For a full list of members supporting DSpace:https://duraspace.org/membership/duraspace-members/

DSpace Service Providers
Along with DSpace members, DSpace Service Providers make an investment in our open
technologies and a commitment to work cooperatively to best serve the community ofusers. As of this Annual Report, there are 3 Certified DSpace Partners, 10 Certified DSpace
Contributors and 5 Listed Service Providers.
The DSpace Service Providers are crucial to the success of the global DSpace Community.
They support users and members across the globe, they help institutions with training,customizations and development. In some regions, they also coordinate DSpace nationaluser Groups, running online and in person events. Among all the Service Providers, we’dlike to especially thank our Certified DSpace Partners: 4Science, ATMIRE, and The LibraryCode. Our Certified Partners are members of the DSpace Leadership Group and together
with institutions from 100 countries and LYRASIS, they are involved in defining priorities andthe strategic direction of DSpace.

5DSpace User Group Meetings
During 2020-2021, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Germany’s National User Groups provided 10webinars in 3 different languages.
DSpace is now in a strategic partnership with COAR. COAR is a membership organization
with over 150 members and partners from 50 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 and DSpace believe in a strong role for innovative
open technologies to promote long lasting and open access to digital data. We arecommitted to supporting the development of repository platforms that are interoperable
and compliant with international standards and protocols, and next generation repository
recommendations.

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Technical Overview
DSpace 7.0 is the largest release in the history of DSpace software. While retaining the“out-of-the-box” aspects DSpace is known for, it represents a major evolution of theplatform including:••••••••••••••

A completely new Javascript-based User Interface, built on Angular.io (with support forSEO provided by Angular Universal). This new interface is customizable via HTML andCSS (Sass) and Bootstrap.
A completely new, fully featured REST API, provided via a single “server” webapp
backend. This new backend is not only a REST API, but also still supports OAI-PMH,SWORD (v1 or v2) and RDF.
A newly designed search box / experience, available throughout the site.
A new MyDSpace area to manage your submissions & reviews, MyDSpace includes anew drag & drop area to start a new submission, and easily search your workflow tasks
or in progress submissions to find what you were working on.
A new configurable submission user interface, featuring a one-page, drag & drop
submission form.
Optional, new Configurable Entities feature. DSpace now supports “entities”, which are
DSpace Items of a specific ‘type’ which may have relationships to other entities.
Dynamic user interface translations
A new Administrative sidebar for common admin tools/tasks.
Improved GDPR alignment• User Agreement required for all authenticated users to read and agree to.
• Cookie Preferences are now available for all users• User Accounts management.
Support for OpenAIREv4 Guidelines for Literature Repositories in OAI-PMH
Search Engine Optimization: Tested and approved by the Google Scholar teamVideo/Image Content Streaming
Basic Usage Statistics
More information on these features, including demo sites and videos can be found in
the 7.0 Release Notes, https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Release+Notes.

7Major Contributing Institutions
The following institutions have been major code contributors to the DSpace 7 release(in general)•••

Atmire4Science
FCT / RCAAP

Financial Contributors
We gratefully recognize the following institutions who together have generously contributed
financially to support the DSpace 7 staged release program (see DSpace 7 Release Goals),and individuals who devoted time to fundraising:
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Auburn University
Cornell University
Pascal Becker
Dalhousie University
Duke University
ETH Zurich, ETH Library
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Imperial College London
Indiana University–Purdue University,
Indianapolis
LYRASISNational Library of Finland
Beate Rajski
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Hamburg – Carl von Ossietzky••••••••••••••

Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)
The DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland
The Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/
Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
The Library Code GmbHThe Ohio State UniversityTexas Digital Library
University of Arizona
University of Edinburgh
University of Kansas
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
University of Toronto
World Bank
ZHAWTechnische Universität Berlin

For a full list of all contributors to DSpace 7, please see the Release Notes:
https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Release+Notes

8Financials
In 2020, DSpace shifted to a paid development model for 7.0. This was designed toaccelerate the innovative release which is critical to improving the platform and thelong term sustainability. The program initiated a fundraising campaign that raised over
$ 160,000 to support the development work thanks to generous contributions frommembers. This year we were able to cover additional costs through other cost savingsand net assets. In the coming year, the governance will continue to find ways todiversify revenue and fundraising efforts to continue to support this work.

2020-2021
Revenues$411,159
Expenses$419,414
Net Assets$16,396
Total income$-8,255
2019-2020
Revenues$488,583
Expenses$461,356
Net Assets$24,651
Total income$27,228

9Thank you
to theCommunity

Despite a global pandemic, the DSpace
community made significant softwaredevelopments, contributing over a million
lines of code, countless hours of dedicatedwork towards the success of launching
the DSpace 7.0 release. We appreciate
the contributions of the entire community
as we work together in support of thisessential component of the international
open repository ecosystem.
Kristi Park, DSpace Leadership Chair,
Executive Director, Texas Digital Library

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