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
OAI harvesting.  The other thing I would look at is what you plan to put
up.  We are starting to host some honors projects and I had to break it to
the Graduate Committee that only two dimensional objects would work so that
sculpture while nice ...


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Edward Iglesias
Systems Librarian
Central Connecticut State University



On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Rob Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> 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 think the set of "institutional repository" is a subset of the set of
> "digital library".  The defining feature being that IRs are designed to
> be updated relatively frequently, by more than one or two people, and
> typically non technical members of an institution.  This happens via a
> user UI, rather than via an admin UI.  The contents of the IR are
> research output, whereas a DL can hold anything.
>
> Rob
>



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Edward Iglesias