To clarify - our use of Islandora/Fedora is for a specific project, a
DAMS for a small image database which needs to scale, eventually, to a
large image database.  The display on that would only be for the image
collection in the near term.  We will have no immediate in-house
display of our EADs.  We rely on OAC for that.  Our use of Archivist's
Toolkit/ArchivesSpace is for managing descriptive cataloging and
internal record-keeping.  In the long term, we'll worry about a
unified interface layer which can pull together the disparate portions
of our Archives.

It is conceivable that in the long term our full repository operation
could migrate to the Fedora architecture (note, I did not say
Islandora).  Using it for a small project allows us to learn &
experiment.  It's attractive because we could always add to it over
time after more applications are developed and we could contribute to
that development either with in-kind work or by throwing money into
having others do the dev.  It will not change the need for multiple
software

cheers,
Laura


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Kevin S. Clarke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That link she posted says they've decided to go with Islandora for the
> end-user display.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Steve Cherry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> One thing about Archivits Toolkit is that it has no end-user display, so if
>> providing your data to patrons is a goal I'd suggest Archon
>> (http://www.archon.org).
>>
>> On 8/9/12 4:42 PM, Laura Smart wrote:
>>>
>>> We've done a very recent analysis of archival systems and decided upon
>>> a new architecture based on our local functional specs.  This was
>>> greatly informed by the CLIR report. I blogged a bit more detail on
>>> the solutions we've selected and are in the process of implementing at
>>> http://library.caltech.edu/laura/?p=299 .  Re: ArchivesSpace - our
>>> plan is to implement Archivists Toolkit before ArchivesSpace is
>>> released and rely upon the migration assistance they intend to provide
>>> to the community.
>>>
>>> FWIW - there is no "one Archival system to rule them all."  You will
>>> probably have to use more than one piece of software.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve Cherry
>> Electronic Services Librarian
>> The Catholic University of America
>> 202-319-6433



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Laura J. Smart
Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Library
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