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If you can figure out what the difference between an 'institutional repository' and a 'digital library' is, let me know. :) Jonathan Edward M. Corrado wrote: > 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. > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu