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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 repository is a *component* of the digital library. A digital library might consist of an repository where digital objects are persisted, preserved, and managed but it also needs a presentation layer, tools for collection building, metadata creation, discovery tools, and scanning/transformation services of objects which are not born digital, etc. Typically I've seen digital libraries start by identifying a collection based on a genre, material collected and stored in a "digital library in a box" (like DSpace or Greenstone) and then made available through the UI provided by the all-in-one solutions. I am working on a model which collects and persists all of the available digital objects and persists them to a repository, then collections can be built from any of the material in the repository as well as material from other institutional repositories.