You sure can use Dspace for an image collection.  And, since the new Manakin interface layer allows you to make custom interfaces for each community/collection, you could even create an interface specifically designed for an image collection, rather than trying to ram that into the (otherwise mostly text-focused) regular interface.

--Dave

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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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Many thanks for all your responses.

I am intrigued by Tim's response regarding using a single system as IR & a
digital collections software. At K-State Libraries, we use Dspace for our IR
& am curious to find out if that would be a possibility to manage an image
collection. To manage Archives & Special Collections related material, what
are the core features we need to look for in any system ?

Thanks again,
Harish

Harish Maringanti
Systems Analyst
K-State Libraries
(785)532-3261


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Cloutman, David <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Our public library has a local history archive, and they are using a
> Content DM instance to implement their digital collection. They are
> happy with it. Currently they're running on a WAMP setup. Though I'd
> like that to change to Linux, Windows seems to work as a development
> environment, and from lurking on the Content DM listserv for a few
> weeks, it seems that it works cross-platform, though some of the Un*x
> neophytes seemed to have difficulties configuring the LAMP stack.
>
> - David
>
>
>
> ---
> David Cloutman <[log in to unmask]>
> Electronic Services Librarian
> Marin County Free Library
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Edward Iglesias
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:41 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections management software
>
>
> Hello Harish,
>
> I second Tim's enthusiastic endorsement.  We are very pleased with it.
> Support is very good and it runs with no problem on linux.  We got it to
> host our veterans history project which is a collection of video
> interviews
> so it is quite versatile.
>
> http://content.library.ccsu.edu/
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Edward Iglesias
> Systems Librarian
> Central Connecticut State University
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Tim McGeary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Harish,
> >
> > We use CONTENTdm to manage many of our Digital Library collections.
> You
> > can see them at http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/
> >
> > The collections we have using CONTENTdm are mostly digitized
> > books/monographs, but we also have illuminated manuscripts, hand
> written
> > letters, and other ephemeral.  We are nearly complete in archiving the
> > entire student newspaper collection, which we hope to release late
> fall.
> >
> > We used Greenstone, which is open source, for our first digital
> project
> > called Digital Bridges.  But we just re-released the project by
> converting
> > it to CONTENTdm.  Greenstone required much too much customization and
> no
> > sustainability, as we wanted to add more to this collection.
> >
> > The University of Utah and the Claremont Colleges both recently
> developed
> > their institution digital repositories with CONTENTdm.  I plan to
> follow
> > their lead with our IR on CONTENTdm this upcoming academic year.  I
> believe
> > it was the presenter at Utah that said <paraphrase>Why create a
> > technological hurdle trying to learn and shape Fedora or DSpace to our
> needs
> > when we already know CONTENTdm and have an open API that we are
> comfortable
> > with using.</paraphrase>
> >
> > Though CONTENTdm is proprietary, the cost is well worth it.  The API
> is
> > very open, the community is among the best user communities out there,
> and
> > the vendor (DiMeMa via OCLC) is very receptive and responsive to user
> > concerns and enhancement suggestions.
> >
> > It has a very intuitive metadata interface, and is easy to administer
> on
> > the server side.  I never have to worry about it.
> >
> > I would HIGHLY recommend CONTENTdm.  Well worth the price!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > Tim McGeary
> > Senior Systems Specialist
> > Lehigh University
> > 610-758-4998
> > [log in to unmask]
> > Google Talk: timmcgeary
> > Yahoo IM: timmcgeary
> >
> >
> > Harish Maringanti wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've heard of Contentdm from OCLC that many institutions are using to
> >> manage
> >> their digital collections. If you are using Contentdm would you mind
> >> sharing
> >> some of the pros & cons of using it (either to the group or off the
> list).
> >>
> >> Are there any other viable products either commercial or open source
> that
> >> can be considered to manage digital collections. Particularly in the
> open
> >> source domain are there any good applications to manage image
> collections?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Harish
> >>
> >>
> >> Harish Maringanti
> >> Systems Analyst
> >> K-State Libraries
> >> (785)532-3261
> >>
> >>
>
>
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