California State University system is moving from Dspace to Hydra (Fedora-based) early next year. At least a few of us in the consortium are thinking of moving our local CONTENTdm to the hydra as well.
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Bin Zhang
Digital Information Services Librarian
Library Systems & IT Services, University Library
California State University, Sacramento
2000 State University Drive East, Sacramento, CA 95819-6039
(916) 278-5664 (O); (916) 278-3891 (F)
bzhang AT csus DOT edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Phillips, Jean
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 1:05 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] CONTENTdm And Alternatives
>
> At FSU we are using Islandora for both our Digital Collections and the
> Research Repository (http://diginole.fsu.edu). We rely on the consortial
> office, FLVC, to host. We work closely with their tech team and can develop
> features ourselves. I've copied Bryan Brown and Favenzio Calvo, our two
> developers, in case you have questions.
>
> We migrated material from Digitool and Digital Commons.
>
> Feel free to ask us questions.
>
> Jean
>
> Jean Phillips
> Assoc. Dean, Technology & Digital Scholarship Florida State University
> Libraries [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Habing,
> Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 3:56:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] CONTENTdm And Alternatives
>
> Hi all,
>
> The system at the UIUC Library that you would want to look at is this:
> https://digital.library.illinois.edu/
>
> Think of it as a public-facing front-end to the Medusa preservation archive.
> The data from our local CONTENTdm collections are already in the Medusa
> preservation archive, and soon they will all also be available through the
> public web interface; currently only a subset are. After this we will be retiring
> our on-premises CONTENTdm.
>
> Also of interest might be our nascent data repository, Illinois Data Bank,
> https://databank.illinois.edu/. It too makes use of the Medusa preservation
> system and infrastructure.
>
> Pretty much all digital data managed by the UIUC Library are in Medusa or will
> be. This is currently around 26 million files in about 1000 collections or 83 TB
> of content, replicated at two data centers on campus and backed up to
> Amazon Glacier.
>
> The digital library access system also uses our homegrown IIIF image server,
> https://medusa-project.github.io/cantaloupe/. The Cantaloupe IIIF server is
> really the only open source part that is packaged, documented, and could be
> easily deployed or reused. However, for the adventurous, all (or most?) of
> our code for all of the above systems is available on GitHub,
> https://github.com/medusa-project/.
>
> Most of this was developed by the UIUC Library IT, Scholarly Communication
> & Repository Services (SCARS) team.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom Habing
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> McAulay, Lisa
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 1:54 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] CONTENTdm And Alternatives
>
> This is pretty interesting — is Medusa a home-grown solution? I can’t find
> information about who made it on the FAQ.
>
>
>
>
> On October 5, 2016 at 11:40:29 AM, Dubnicek, Ryan C
> ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) wrote:
>
> This isn¹t quite my area, but thought I¹d chime in to say that the U.
> Illinois Library is piloting a few collections in Medusa (more details on this
> here: https://medusa.library.illinois.edu/) as a potential replacement for
> CONTENTdm.
>
> Best,
>
> ‹Ryan
>
>
> Ryan Dubnicek
> Project Coordinator
> HathiTrust Research Center
> Visiting Research Services Specialist
> School of Information Sciences
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 209 LIS Building, MC-493
> 501 E. Daniel Street | Champaign, IL 61820 [log in to unmask]
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> On 10/5/16, 1:30 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Diaz, Noel A"
> <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >We at Purdue Libraries are on the same boat. Already talked with OCLC
> >about hosted solution, but we are really now thinking of and looking
> >into a better local alternative. We don't plan to make any moves any
> >time soon so would be very interested in hearing what others are
> >doing/planning.
> >
> >-- Noel
> >
> >‹
> > Noel Díaz
> > Instruction & Research Services Administrator Information Technology
> >Department Purdue University Libraries
> > E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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> >On 10/5/16, 9:16 AM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Christopher H Day"
> ><[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >I wanted to solicit some feedback and advice from my code4lib
> >colleagues about Digital Collections and Institutional Repository software
> solutions.
> >
> >
> >For the past several years we have used a local installation of
> >CONTENTdm as our digital repository
> >[http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/]. Due to OCLC's recent announcement
> >of a shift to a "hosted only" model for CONTENTdm, we are starting to
> research our options for change.
> >
> >
> >We would like to be able to provide additional functionality for our
> >library digital collections, and to provide our campus with a more
> >versatile institutional repository.
> >
> >
> >
> >If your institution is using CONTENTdm Hosted, Islandora, Digital
> >Commons, or other similar products, I'd love to get a feel for your
> >experiences -- especially about migrating to your current platform from
> >an earlier product. If you have some time for a few brief questions by
> >email please feel free to contact me off list.
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks very much for your time.
> >
> >
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >--
> >
> >
> >*Christopher Day *Digital Resources Librarian MacLean Visual Resources
> >Center
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> >
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