Note that having said Fedora, you're only half-way there: you still need
a front end. Fez is popular, but Muradora was very well spoken of at
RIRI last week (http://vre.upei.ca/riri/), and UPEI is doing very
interesting work putting Drupal in front of Fedora (they're planning to
release code shortly, having been distracted over the summer by an
impromptu ILS migration that cost them 5 whole weeks - honestly, you
wonder what these people do all day). Muradora's future was in doubt for
a while due to reorganization of the development team, but the most
recent word is that it will continue to be developed.

You'll end up with very different beasts depending on what you choose,
so you really need to list Fedora+Fez, Fedora+Muradora, etc. as separate
options.

Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Edward M. Corrado
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:25 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Institutional Repository Software?
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been investigating possible solutions for the beginnings 
> of a repository of electronic documents [1]. At this point, 
> we have no budget, so I am only looking at Open Source 
> options. I've identified a number of options that may meet 
> our needs that are either advertised as institutional 
> repository software or digital library software. Basically 
> what I am wonder is am I missing some OSS programs that in 
> these categories that might work for us. Software that I have 
> identified so far that looks promising are:
> 
> DSpace: http://www.dspace.org/
> Fedora: http://www.fedora-commons.org/
> E-prints: http://www.eprints.org/
> Greenstone: www.*greenstone*.org/
> Kete: http://kete.net.nz/
> Rescarta: http://www.rescarta.org/
> 
> 
> I have identified some others, but rejected them because they 
> were either experimental or appear not to be in current 
> development. At this point we haven't really narrowed down 
> our focus, so almost any digital library or institutional 
> repository program would be under consideration, providing it 
> is 1) somewhat fully developed (again, no budget), 2) 
> somewhat easy to use and install, 3) has some level of user 
> base, and 4) is actively being maintained. Does anyone have 
> any suggestions for other software to investigate
> 
> Edward
> 
> [1] I'm not going to call this an institutional repository, 
> because what 
> I am envision is more of a hybrid of a digital library and 
> institutional 
> repository. I'd be less vague, but I only have a vague idea 
> of what we want.
> 
>