We're in the middle of migrating from CONTENTdm to our own homegrown
system. Happy to answer any questions.

The new system is now beta with a couple of our CDM collections, with more
to come later in the month. Check it out: rdc.reed.edu

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Zhang, Bin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ---
> 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]>
> >
> > ________________________________
> > 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]
> > 217-244-7260
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > >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]
> > >
> > >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
> > >
> > >John M. Flaxman Library | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
> > >37 South Wabash, 6th FL, Chicago, IL 60603
> > >312.899.5101 | [log in to unmask]
> > >http://libraryguides.saic.edu/vrc | https://digital-libraries.saic.edu
> > >
> > >
>



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