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Hello Michelle, I work with a company called 4Science. We were sponsors at the Code4Lib conference in Princeton last month. We are DSpace Certified Platinum Provides and leaders in the DSpace community. I believe that DSpace could be a great fit for this type of project. Moreover, at 4Science we developed a DSpace free and open source extension called DSpace-GLAM specifically for digital collections and cultural heritage. DSpace-GLAM enables institutions to have a better experience in exploring and managing digital collections enhancing their visibility and prestige. Because of its flexibility, DSpace-GLAM can be adapted and tailored to the institution’s needs. Something about us We are Certified Platinum Provider of DSpace and major contributor to DSpace 7, Trusted Provider of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA-STAR), certified ISO 9001, certified Service Providers of ORCID, registered Service Providers of Datacite, and our professional staff has been working with DSpace since 2003. You’ll find more here: Our extensive range of certifications<https://www.4science.com/certifications/>. Our purpose is to empower open knowledge. We pride ourselves on providing flexible and reliable services - from installation to customization, configuration, maintenance, hosting and consulting. Open-source rationale and our vision are available here why we support Openness<https://www.4science.com/open-source/>. You’ll find some client project descriptions, including DSpace and DSpace-GLAM, here Who we work for<https://www.4science.com/we-work-for/> . You’ll find our full Company Overview<https://www.4science.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4Science-Company-Overview-2022.pdf> here. What is DSpace? DSpace is the most widely used repository software with more than 3000 installations around the world. It is free, open source and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. What can you do with DSpace: - Collect, preserve and disseminate your digital assets. - Manage your files of any formats and mime types (e.g.: pdf, docx, xlsx, jpg, mpeg, tiff, mp4). - Make your content FAIR, open and easy to access. - Increase your visibility and reputation on the web. A couple of words about DSpace-GLAM DSpace-GLAM is an extension of DSpace, developed by the team at 4Science, free and open source, which provides a more sophisticated data model and more functionality to meet the specific needs for the management, preservation, and dissemination of Digital Collections of Cultural Heritage. DSpace-GLAM can be easily integrated with image viewers, media servers and OCR module. DSpace-GLAM is compliant with the key international standards that facilitate interoperability and data transfer among Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. What can you do with DSpace GLAM? · Manage entities across the entire cultural heritage domain: collections, funding, persons, events, concepts, places, etc. · Create relations between digital objects and entities enabling full description of the cultural context. · Visualize and analyze your data using grids, graphs, maps or by creating networks. · Store, manage, curate, preserve, analyze, and provide access to digital assets and their metadata. You can watch a DSpace-GLAM video here: https://youtu.be/KUHfNe2y_rw You can also try some of the functionalities following these links: Our IIIF Image Viewer: https://www.openstarts.units.it/explore?bitstream_id=178937&handle=10077/29203&provider=iiif-image Our Document Viewer: https://tandis.odihr.pl/explore?bitstream_id=1116989&handle=20.500.12389/22600&provider=iiif-image Our OCR & Transcription module: https://www.openstarts.units.it/explore?bitstream_id=178937&handle=10077/29203&provider=iiif-image Our Video/Audio streaming module: https://dspace-glam.4science.cloud/explore?bitstream_id=7854&handle=123456789/284&provider=video-streaming I would be more than happy to help you with this project. For any other question or concern and if you are interested, do not hesitate to contact me at any time. Thank you, Federico Federico Verlicchi Business Developer Sales Executive USA Market Analyst email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Mobile: +1 (816) 905-8227 4Science USA Corporation 435 Nichols Road, Suite 200, Kansas City, MO, 64112 www.4science.com<http://www.4science.com/>, ISO 9001:2015, Cloud Security Alliance Trusted Provider Certified Platinum Provider of DSpace, DSpace-CRIS, DSpace-GLAM [Logo Description automatically generated][cid:[log in to unmask]] From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Michelle Urberg <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2023 2:37 PM To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Acquisitions and Collection Development Expertise Requested Dear Code4Lib Community, I am hoping to get some feedback from experts in library acquisitions and those who do collection development. I am working on a project with a client who is interested in providing open access content to libraries and we are discussing potential business models to ensure that they can continue developing their content for the foreseeable future. They are a non-profit (501c3) organization. Understanding that open access content is not really "free", is there a circumstance in which libraries would pay a fee to support this organization? Any fee associated with a "subscription" would be largely directed back at developing the platform and enhancing content for the organization. The content would be area specific to the humanities and arts, directed to a particular segment of a university or college community, but its contents would be freely available to everyone. So questions I have are these: 1) If there was a fee for this content, how much would be acceptable? Would that fee be FTE dependent? 2) Would the online content space need to be enhanced from what is freely available on the internet to be of use to the university to be worth a "subscription"? (e.g. a robust database search with particular metadata or some sort of visualization or knowledge graph) 3) Would a given university or college want to have the option to contribute to this content hub (this is not unlike Science Open, but the content scope is more specialized and with particular arts and humanities content)? Happy to field further questions about this project if you email me! Thanks for your time! I am very excited about this organization I am working with and would love to see this content space a reality for university use. Best, Michelle Urberg -- Michelle Urberg, PhD, MSLIS Independent Consultant Data Solve LLC Find me on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleurberg/>!