Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread John Fereira
Phil Cryer wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:21 -0600, 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 w

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Senior Developer, Columbia University Library Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

2008-08-22 Thread Jack Donovan
Hi, We have a Developer position open at Columbia University Library's Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. Position Title: Senior Developer The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) [http://cdrs.columbia.edu/] at Columbia University seeks a Senior Developer to help impl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Phil Cryer
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:21 -0600, 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 D

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Thanks Jade. I think I saw this one mentioned somewhere a month or so ago but I couldn't find it when I was searching for options. Edward Anderson, Jade N wrote: You could check out Open Collection too: http://www.opencollection.org/ My Digital Libraries class at UT chose it (over Greenston

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Ben O'Steen
If you are after a quick and easy proof of concept, that requires no programming skill, then I would plump for EPrints.org - there's even a debian package for it, which makes it really easy to install 2008/8/22 Edward M. Corrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ben O'Steen wrote: >> >> 2008/8/22 David Kane

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Hi Nicole, Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't seen this one before. Edward Nicole Engard wrote: I just learned about Alfresco yesterday: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Main_Page was this one that you decided against - or is it new to you? --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLim

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Ben O'Steen wrote: 2008/8/22 David Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I use EPrints, which is great. Do look out for Microsoft's offering though, which is in the pipeline. It will be free. Of course It will need to run on a Windows server and will be optimised for SQL Server. Er.. it will *o

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Bess Sadler
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 Bla

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Binkley, Peter
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 shortl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Leslie Johnston wrote: Agreed that you need a label for the function/tool/platform. I have been in many discussions that went around and around on the word "repository." Some folks liked it because it was a reasonably generic term for a class of tool that had some physical

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Anderson, Jade N
You could check out Open Collection too: http://www.opencollection.org/ My Digital Libraries class at UT chose it (over Greenstone, DSpace, and Fedora) to create a digital collection last semester. It is newer but they are actively developing it, fixing bugs, etc. Jade

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Leslie Johnston
Agreed that you need a label for the function/tool/platform. I have been in many discussions that went around and around on the word "repository." Some folks liked it because it was a reasonably generic term for a class of tool that had some physical association with a place where things are stor

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Nicole Engard
I just learned about Alfresco yesterday: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Main_Page was this one that you decided against - or is it new to you? --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http:/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Edward Iglesias
Just as an aside I'd look at how you want items deposited. We use eprints for our Master's Theses and they get cataloged. If you want faculty at a number of locations to submit work with just a few tags you might want to look at dspace. Another consideration is harvesting. Both of these allow O

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Rob Sanderson
To throw in my 2c. > Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > >> If you can figure out what the difference between an 'institutional > >> repository' and a 'digital library' is, let me know. > > I think an institutional repository is a type of digital l

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread John Fereira
Eric Lease Morgan wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: If you can figure out what the difference between an 'institutional repository' and a 'digital library' is, let me know. I think an institutional repository is a type of digital library. To ma an institutional

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-22 Thread Ben O'Steen
2008/8/22 David Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I use EPrints, which is great. > > Do look out for Microsoft's offering though, which is in the pipeline. It > will be free. Of course It will need to run on a Windows server and will be > optimised for SQL Server. Er.. it will *only* run on the most r