Hi Karl, Thanks for your information. GOKb wasn't even something I'd heard of. Since NCSU is one of the leads on this, they may have a leg up already on Some of the work since they have their own locally creates ERM: E-Matrix, which seems to be mostly conceptual, but might actually be in use there.
CUFTS looks somewhat promising to me as does CORAL. The program that started the discussion at all ERMes, I'm not that sure about, though I have some folks I can talk with about it. I will post my results to the listserv. Regards, Giles W. Riesner, Jr. | Lead Library Technician , Library Technology The Community College of Baltimore County | 800 South Rolling Road | Catonsville, MD 21228 USA Phone: 1-443-840-2736 | Fax: 1-410-455-6436 | Email: [email protected] CCBC. The incredible value of education. -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karl Holten Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM A couple of months ago our organization began looking at new ERM solutions / link resolvers, so I thought I'd share my thoughts based on my research of the topic. Unfortunately, I think this is one area where open source offerings are a bit thin. Many offerings look promising at first but are no longer under development. I'd be careful about adopting something that's no longer supported. Out of all the options that are no longer developed, I thought the CUFTS/GODOT combo was the most promising. Out of the options that seem to still be under development, there were two options that stood out: CORAL and GOKb. Neither includes a link resolver, so they weren't good for our needs. CORAL has the advantage of being out on the market right now. GOKb is backed by some pretty big institutions and looks more sophisticated, but other than some slideshows there's not a lot to look at to actually evaluate it at the moment. Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that nothing out there right now matches the proprietary software, especially in terms of link resolvers and in terms of a knowledge base. If I were forced to go open source I'd say the GOKb and CORAL look the most promising. Hope that helps narrow things down at least a little bit. Regards, Karl Holten Systems Integration Specialist SWITCH Consortium 6801 North Yates Road Milwaukee, WI 53217 http://topcat.switchinc.org/ -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Riesner, Giles W. Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM Thank you, Peter. I took a quick look at the list and found ERMes there as well as a few others. Not everything under this category really fits what I'm looking for (e.g. Calibre). I'll look a little deeper. Regards, Giles W. Riesner, Jr., Lead Library Technician, Library Technology Community College of Baltimore County 800 S. Rolling Road Baltimore, MD 21228 [email protected] 1-443-840-2736 ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [[email protected]] on behalf of Peter Murray [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 4:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM I don't know about ERMes specifically, but wanted to point out that FOSS4Lib has 12 packages of various sorts in the "Electronic Resource Management" category: https://foss4lib.org/package-type/electronic-resource-management Peter On Sep 19, 2013, at 2:46 PM, "Riesner, Giles W." <[email protected]> wrote: > One of our Librarians saw an article about ERMes, an open source ERM > from the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse > > (http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/erm/) , and was asking about the possibility > of our using it. > > If you're using it and wouldn't mind us picking your brain a little bit on > it, please contact me off list . > > That said, if you have experience with any other open source ERM > systems and wouldn't mind sharing some information > > about them, I'm happy to hear about them as well. > > Thanks. > > > > Giles W. Riesner, Jr., Lead Library Technician, Library Technology > Community College of Baltimore County > 800 S. Rolling Road Baltimore, MD 21228 > [email protected] 1-443-840-2736 -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS [email protected] +1 678-235-2955 800.999.8558 x2955
