Hi Tom and Peter,

thank you for your suggestions. I envy these platforms for having an actual
CMS. I am currently lobbying for funding so that we can build something for
our FLOSS Inventory and I think the positive messages i've received on here
will certainly help.

I would say the main difference between the FLOSS Inventory and these other
lists is that our list applies to larger aspects of digital heritage
including aspects like storytelling, visualization, annotation, and
geo-mapping, etc. This is a big part of Europeana's mission; re-use.

However, the inventory may slant more towards the back-end because a lot of
software I source comes from this list.

@peter I like that you mentioned the idea between application and toolkit.
This is something that I also would like to see for our Inventory. Also it
would be great to make all relevant plug-ins, say for Omeka, visible on the
Omeka landing page. One-stop-shopping if you will.

We would also like to have more reviews but the project that they were done
under has ended thus funding is gone.

I also serve on the DiRT Directory <http://dirtdirectory.org/> Editorial
Board. Has anyone had a look at that list? It's pretty well organized and
enriched. the only problem is that it features payed software as well and
you can't filter just OS.

The folks over at Berkley are working on automatic tool submissions via
Twitter using #dhtools...not sure where this is at so a good reminder to
check-in on that status!

Thanks everyone for the nice discussion! nice to know there are others
working on similar projects and we can share some knowledge.

Regards,

greg

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Tom Cramer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Greg,
>
> Thanks for the invitation to give input to the inventory. Can you compare
> and contrast the EuropeanaTech FLOSS inventory with https://foss4lib.org/?
> (And/or perhaps someone from Lyrasis might also chime in?) Just wondering
> if they are two different approaches with the same objective, or two
> somewhat different approaches with some overlapping names / software titles.
>
> For the record, I'm not necessarily suggesting trying to consolidate, but
> rather understand any differences and overlaps between them. It seems like
> there is plenty of room for more than a single tools registry. I.e., there
> are at least three overlapping, current digital preservation tool lists:
>
> - COPTR, the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry:
> http://coptr.digipres.org/Main_Page
> - POWRR's "tool grid" for digital preservation software:
> http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/tool-grid/
> - the IIPC's Web Archiving Tools & Software tools list:
> http://netpreserve.org/web-archiving/tools-and-software
>
> each of which seems to have its niche (and more importantly, maintainers!)
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Tom
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2015, at 1:29 AM, Gregory Markus wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Last week there were a few posts about finding a list of open source
> > projects. I would like to point everyone towards the EuropeanaTech FLOSS
> > Inventory
> > <
> https://docs.google.com/a/beeldengeluid.nl/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_7rVJwt0CpdFRJOEJxdEk4ZEMxQ01jaDgxQXFSTkE#gid=0
> >.
> >
> >
> > The list features almost 300 OS tools that are relevant for the digital
> > cultural heritage/digital humanities sector.
> >
> > Currently I am the only one actively managing the list. As you could
> > imagine, staying up-to-date with new releases and new additions is quite
> > difficult.
> >
> > So feel free to browse around the inventory, if you see some of your own
> > work on there and it needs updating feel free to tell me! If some of your
> > favorite tools aren't on the list feel free to send me links to their
> > github and I will add them.
> >
> > Thanks everyone and I look forward to your contributions.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > greg
> >
> > --
> >
> > *Gregory Markus*
> >
> > Project Assistant
> >
> > EuropeanaTech Community Manager
> >
> > *T* 0612350556
> >
> > *Aanwezig:* - ma, di, wo, do, vr
>



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*Gregory Markus*

Project Assistant

EuropeanaTech Community Manager

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*Aanwezig:* - ma, di, wo, do, vr