Yeah, sorry about that.  I wish I could've pointed to it, but it's behind 
a firewall.  You're right that Blacklight isn't really in the same 
category as the others.


Carol Bean
Electronic Resources Librarian
Federal Courts Library
936 Federal Justice Building
99 NE 4th Street
Miami, FL  33132
305-523-5958
305-523-5962 (FAX)
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From:
Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]>
To:
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Date:
03/29/2010 05:02 PM
Subject:
Re: [CODE4LIB] need a plan for what to code
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Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>



That's a little difficult to make out, but I feel you are comparing apples
to oranges by comparing Blacklight to Omeka or CollectiveAccess.  From 
what
I've seen, I think CollectiveAccess is a great system.  Omeka is not, nor
designed to be, digital repository software.  I'm not sure it's a good fit
for Adam's requirements.  CollectiveAccess is worth looking into.  It's a
shame more museums don't take open source solutions and CollectiveAccess
more seriously.

Ethan

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Carol Bean 
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Adam,
>
> Oddly enough, I'm evaluating tools and DAM's this week.  I charted the
> Open Source ones that looked possible,  I don't know how this is going 
to
> come through on email, but this is what I've got:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Software
> Source location
> Platform
> Web
> Based
> MODS/
> METS/
> DC
> Language
> Database
> Includes
> Rep?
> Multiple
> Schemas
> Primary
> Audience
> /Users
> Support
> Omeka
> http://omeka.org/
> Linux
> Y
> DC
> PHP
> MySQL
> Y
> ?
> Staff/
> Public
> Forums/
> List
> Blacklight
> http://projectblacklight.org/
> Any
> Y
> Any
> Ruby
> N
> N
> Y
> Public
> List
> Greenstone
> http://www.greenstone.org
> Any
> Y
> DC
> Java,
> Perl
> ?
> Y
> Configu-
> rable
> Staff/
> Public
> List
> DSpace
> http://www.dspace.org
> Any
> Y
> Any
> Java,
> Perl
> PostGres,
> Oracle
> Y
> Y
> Staff/
> Public
> Forum/
> Lists
> CollectiveAccess
> http://www.collectiveaccess.org
> Any
> Y
> Any
> PHP
> MySQL
> N
> Y
> Staff/
> Public
> Forum/
> Consult.
>
>
>
>
> These are just the preliminary things I was looking at, but in the 
process
> of getting the chart filled in.  I'm leaning towards Omeka (there's a 
good
> article on it in D-Lib,
> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/kucsma/03kucsma.html this month), or
> CollectiveAccess.  They look like they will require the least amount of
> work getting it set up, and I'm already familiar with PHP/MySQL. :-)
> (Includes Rep == includes repository)
>
> Hope this helps a little. :-)
>
>
> Carol Bean
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Federal Courts Library
> 936 Federal Justice Building
> 99 NE 4th Street
> Miami, FL  33132
> 305-523-5958
> 305-523-5962 (FAX)
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> From:
> Adam Wead <[log in to unmask]>
> To:
> [log in to unmask]
> Date:
> 03/29/2010 03:38 PM
> Subject:
> Re: [CODE4LIB] need a plan for what to code
> Sent by:
> Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> Ethan,
>
> Thanks, yes, I did take a look at this.  I have to pick my battles here. 
A
> discovery interface is one of the things that we could buy "off the 
shelf"
> and get a lot of good mileage out of.  I'm devoted to open source and I
> would love nothing more than to roll our own with Blacklight, but that's
> more work on top of the DAM issue.  I chose not to delve into the
> Blacklight option to save myself more time to focus on the asset manager
> issue, which is where I *think* I'll be having to work the most.
>
> Of course, I'm open to suggestions.  Does anyone think it's easier to do
> your own discovery layer than a DAM? Potentially, the money we save not
> buying a discovery layer could go towards buying a DAM.  However, the
> products we're looking have some really great interfaces.  I think I'd 
be
> looking at an equally difficult challenge trying to emulate some of 
those
> features on my own.
>
> thoughts?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Ethan Gruber
> Sent: Mon 3/29/2010 3:00 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] need a plan for what to code
>
> Instead of purchasing a discovery system, I recommend using
> blacklight<http://projectblacklight.org/>
>
> Ethan
>
>
>
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