On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 06:35:53AM -0700, Harald Hille wrote: > I'm an alumnus of a university choral group that has existed for nearly 70 > years, given hundreds of concerts, gone on tours and issued recordings, > etc. We have accumulated an archive of documents (some 5-6 pages long), > photos, programs, posters, letters, recordings, etc., which ultimately we > plan to give to the university for their archives. But, before that > happens, I have been asked (with my rather primitive IT experience) to > digitize (scan as PDFs) the items we have and to try to develop a system > that would allow current members and alumni to retrieve (display/consult) > items corresponding to the criteria/tags that they have selected through a > user interface (front-end) to the search engine (back-end). Ideally the > system would reside on the group's website and would be usable by any > outside user from his/her browser. Looking at the descriptions on your > website, DSpace seems to allow many of these functions (and more), but > what is not fully explicit is whether a user can come in and use the system > from his/her laptop without having to have installed DSpace on his/her PC.
I'm not quite sure what this question is asking. DSpace doesn't need any "client" software of its own installed anywhere. The only absolute requirements for the end-user are some sort of computer with a graphic display and a web browser. DSpace just serves up whatever is deposited in it, as-is, so if you deposit PDFs then users need some way to display PDF documents. Most contemporary browsers integrate some sort of PDF viewer, and there are a number of others available. Installing DSpace is a process of many steps, but not all that difficult. https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC6x/Installing+DSpace Regardless of what platform you choose, I'd advise you to spend some time sooner than later, thinking about the nature of your documents and how people will try to find them. The value of a platform like DSpace is largely in the ability to add detailed description to each document and make those "metadata" available for searching. You have several different classes of documents (text, images, recordings) which you might describe with different sets of properties. People who deal in these matters regularly have developed a number of metadata vocabularies for describing different types of documents. You may want to talk this over with your university's librarians -- they should be familiar with these matters and may be able to guide you in choosing how you will describe your materials in ways that work well and will fit into their existing systems. If you do choose DSpace, it comes with a small set of vocabularies ("schemas") which are well suited to texts and do work with other media. But if you want something specialized to another media type, there are folks here who can help you add new schemas to your DSpace instance. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/20200617140151.GC9114%40IUPUI.Edu.
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