Good point, Peter. Edward, it's also worth considering your
institution's overall user experience goals. Here at UVA, we want to
give users a single place to go, instead of having to search the
repository and the library catalog, so the front end for our Fedora
repository is going to be Blacklight (also open source: http://
blacklight.rubyforge.org), the same as the front end for our library
catalog. You can see an example here (still in development, so be
kind), of a search that has retrieved both a book from the catalog
and images from our repository:
http://blacklightdev.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?q%5B%5D=Radburn
Bess
Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler
Research and Development Librarian
Digital Scholarship Services
Box 400129
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(434) 243-2305
On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Binkley, Peter wrote:
Note that having said Fedora, you're only half-way there: you still
need
a front end. Fez is popular, but Muradora was very well spoken of at
RIRI last week (http://vre.upei.ca/riri/), and UPEI is doing very
interesting work putting Drupal in front of Fedora (they're
planning to
release code shortly, having been distracted over the summer by an
impromptu ILS migration that cost them 5 whole weeks - honestly, you
wonder what these people do all day). Muradora's future was in
doubt for
a while due to reorganization of the development team, but the most
recent word is that it will continue to be developed.
You'll end up with very different beasts depending on what you choose,
so you really need to list Fedora+Fez, Fedora+Muradora, etc. as
separate
options.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Edward M. Corrado
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:25 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?
Hello all,
I've been investigating possible solutions for the beginnings
of a repository of electronic documents [1]. At this point,
we have no budget, so I am only looking at Open Source
options. I've identified a number of options that may meet
our needs that are either advertised as institutional
repository software or digital library software. Basically
what I am wonder is am I missing some OSS programs that in
these categories that might work for us. Software that I have
identified so far that looks promising are:
DSpace: http://www.dspace.org/
Fedora: http://www.fedora-commons.org/
E-prints: http://www.eprints.org/
Greenstone: www.*greenstone*.org/
Kete: http://kete.net.nz/
Rescarta: http://www.rescarta.org/
I have identified some others, but rejected them because they
were either experimental or appear not to be in current
development. At this point we haven't really narrowed down
our focus, so almost any digital library or institutional
repository program would be under consideration, providing it
is 1) somewhat fully developed (again, no budget), 2)
somewhat easy to use and install, 3) has some level of user
base, and 4) is actively being maintained. Does anyone have
any suggestions for other software to investigate
Edward
[1] I'm not going to call this an institutional repository,
because what
I am envision is more of a hybrid of a digital library and
institutional
repository. I'd be less vague, but I only have a vague idea
of what we want.
