It may be a fool's errand to ask how much it would cost to implement an
open source institutional repository, but here goes!
Let's first focus on open source and say that there won't be vendor costs
for ingesting or downloading materials, that we already have our own
purchased servers dedicated
Hi Scott,
No numbers here, but I recommend budgeting for either a) ongoing
programmer involvement (staff), or b) support costs with an
appropriate company for the platform you choose. Minimizing the amount
of unique code a programmer has to write can also go a distance to
reducing ongoing costs.
...@uflib.ufl.edu
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] Institutional Repository Costs
It may be a fool's errand to ask how much
Scott,
I agree with Kirsta, but in addition to technical staff you will absolutely
need someone who can develop and oversee policies associated with the IR, and
work with the communities who will be contributing contents. IRs are a service,
not a website or CMS (although the technology
Having done some research in this area for a chapter in
soon-to-be-published book, I concur with C. Sean Burns, Amy Lana and John
M. Budd that Little is known about the costs academic libraries incur to
implement and manage institutional repositories and the value these
institutional repositories
It sounds like you're saying that you're going to make a one year
commitment to develop software and then you're going to walk away from the
code/software/what have you, is that correct? If that is correct, my
question to you is: would you purchase software from a vendor that said,
Yeah we built
