On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:21 -0600, Binkley, Peter wrote:
> 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.

The open-ness of Fedora, and it's lack of a front end, has been a hurdle
for many to overcome before adoption, but from what I saw at RIRI last
week, the work the UPEI staff is doing is very nice, leveraging Drupal,
which is a great app.  Richard Green (Univ of Hull) was big on promoting
Muradora with examples and current posts from the dev group that they
are going to continue.  I'd like to see them target Fedora 3.0 and
release that soon, same to be said about Fez, who have working 3.0 bids
in svn currently.  

What I've taken away from RIRI is that Fedora-commons is ready for
business on the backend, but needs search, acl and front-ends plugged
in, and will for some time.  One of my ideas is get Solr running with FC
(something we failed to get accomplished at RIRI) and then build a front
end that just looks at Solr.  I'm sure there's more to it, but I'm going
to start looking, thanks for the Open collections link, I already heard
back from them, they're integrating Solr now, and will be working on a
fedora-commons plugin next year...

P

> 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.
> > 
> > 
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