[CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software
Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or digital collection software in use at libraries and museums? I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs paid. Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out? KC
[CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software
Foss4lib.org, operated by Lyrasis, has an inventory of open source digital asset management systems. OCLC's ContentDM is a bit long in the tooth, but is still very widely used. Islandora and Hydra, both using Fedora Commons as their repository, are very popular among academic libraries. Islandora has a larger public library audience, although Hydra has recently received a substantial IMLS grant for a project to make it easier to work with. Islandora uses The popular Drupal CMS as its front end, and Hydra uses Ruby on Rails. MPOW, the Cherry Hill Company provides Islandora services, including development, training, theming (design) and general consultation. We also offer a fully managed and hosted Islandora service. Nothing in the library space ever dies, so folks are still using Greenstone, and they do have a community. There are at least 100 systems that are or can serve as repositories. Some, like the ILS vendor offerings, are lame, others, such as Sharepoint, are not a good fit with libraries. The rest all have a target audience that they are trying to please. As long as the systems you are considering fully meet your requirement, if you are going to mostly rely on a vendor, then you must feel comfortable with and confident in that vendor. If you have a programming resources on staff, and plan to work with an open source system, then the project community becomes your paramount consideration. Thanks, Cary On Friday, May 8, 2015, Cooper, Krystal > wrote: > Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or > digital collection software in use at libraries and museums? > > I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs > paid. > > Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out? > > KC > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software
An interesting question. I am not sure if there is one great source for that. You can get some idea of open source platforms from FOSS4Lib. I think Wikipedia actually has a listing of software, but not 100% sure on that. It is slightly more institutional repository focused, but the Directory of Open Access Repositories has an interesting statistics section, which I think includes a chart of what software is used in each repository. I can't speak to your Greenstone question, I'm not aware of many that use it, but there could still be a strong user group out there. Hope that helps a little. Matt Sherman On May 8, 2015 10:24 AM, "Cooper, Krystal" wrote: > Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or > digital collection software in use at libraries and museums? > > I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs > paid. > > Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out? > > KC >
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software
Marshall Breeding's Library Technology web site has a nice search tool that lets you explore what software different libraries are using. Not sure if it includes a lot of museums and it may be heavily ILS focused versus other content tools. http://librarytechnology.org/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Sherman Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 8:54 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software An interesting question. I am not sure if there is one great source for that. You can get some idea of open source platforms from FOSS4Lib. I think Wikipedia actually has a listing of software, but not 100% sure on that. It is slightly more institutional repository focused, but the Directory of Open Access Repositories has an interesting statistics section, which I think includes a chart of what software is used in each repository. I can't speak to your Greenstone question, I'm not aware of many that use it, but there could still be a strong user group out there. Hope that helps a little. Matt Sherman On May 8, 2015 10:24 AM, "Cooper, Krystal" wrote: > Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library > or digital collection software in use at libraries and museums? > > I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source > vs paid. > > Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out? > > KC >
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software
I've always found FOSS4LIB (https://foss4lib.org/) and Repository66.org ( http://maps.repository66.org/) to be a good starting points. On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Cooper, Krystal wrote: > Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or > digital collection software in use at libraries and museums? > > I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs > paid. > > Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out? > > KC >
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software
Repository66.org seems like a great idea, but it seems years out of date. On Friday, May 8, 2015, scott bacon wrote: > I've always found FOSS4LIB (https://foss4lib.org/) and Repository66.org ( > http://maps.repository66.org/) to be a good starting points. > > > > On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Cooper, Krystal > > wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or > > digital collection software in use at libraries and museums? > > > > I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs > > paid. > > > > Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out? > > > > KC > > > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Library/Archiving software
Hi Krystal, Also do take a look at Leala Abbott's wonderful Google Sheet "The DAM List". It gives an overview of which digital asset management systems are used by what non-profit organisations - museums, libraries and others. Here's a link to an early blog post indicating how she set up the list: http://lealaabbott.com/wp/?p=423 Kind regards, Erwin Verbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: > Repository66.org seems like a great idea, but it seems years out of date. > > On Friday, May 8, 2015, scott bacon wrote: > > > I've always found FOSS4LIB (https://foss4lib.org/) and Repository66.org > ( > > http://maps.repository66.org/) to be a good starting points. > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Cooper, Krystal > > > > wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library > or > > > digital collection software in use at libraries and museums? > > > > > > I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source > vs > > > paid. > > > > > > Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out? > > > > > > KC > > > > > > > > -- > Cary Gordon > The Cherry Hill Company > http://chillco.com >
