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Just as an aside I'd look at how you want items deposited. We use eprints for our Master's Theses and they get cataloged. If you want faculty at a number of locations to submit work with just a few tags you might want to look at dspace. Another consideration is harvesting. Both of these allow OAI harvesting. The other thing I would look at is what you plan to put up. We are starting to host some honors projects and I had to break it to the Graduate Committee that only two dimensional objects would work so that sculpture while nice ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Rob Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > To throw in my 2c. > > > Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > > On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > > >> If you can figure out what the difference between an 'institutional > > >> repository' and a 'digital library' is, let me know. > > > I think an institutional repository is a type of digital library. > > I think the set of "institutional repository" is a subset of the set of > "digital library". The defining feature being that IRs are designed to > be updated relatively frequently, by more than one or two people, and > typically non technical members of an institution. This happens via a > user UI, rather than via an admin UI. The contents of the IR are > research output, whereas a DL can hold anything. > > Rob > -- Edward Iglesias