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 recent

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 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 library. I

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

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

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

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,

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

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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-21 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Jonathan Rochkind wrote: If you can figure out what the difference between an 'institutional repository' and a 'digital library' is, let me know. :) Jonathan Marketing. :-) Edward Edward M. Corrado wrote: Hello all, I've been investigating possible solutions for the beginnings of a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
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. In general, an institutional repository is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-21 Thread Leslie Johnston
I have grown to really dislike the phrase digital library. In my last job most folks referred to The DL when they meant the digital collection repository (NOT an IR, but a repo for digitized library collections). Some of us kept making the point that digital library meant not just digitized

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-21 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I agreewholeheartedly with there is no digital library, it's just the library. And just the library increasingly has not only it's collections but it's services digital and online (is digital reference part of the 'digital library'? can you have a 'digital library' without online reference?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?

2008-08-21 Thread David Kane
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. David. -- David Kane Systems Librarian Waterford Institute of Technology