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If you are after a quick and easy proof of concept, that requires no programming skill, then I would plump for EPrints.org - there's even a debian package for it, which makes it really easy to install 2008/8/22 Edward M. Corrado <[log in to unmask]>: > Ben O'Steen wrote: >> >> 2008/8/22 David Kane <[log in to unmask]>: >> >>> >>> I use EPrints, which is great. >>> >>> Do look out for Microsoft's offering though, which is in the pipeline. >>> It >>> will be free. Of course It will need to run on a Windows server and will >>> be >>> optimised for SQL Server. >>> >> >> Er.. it will *only* run on the most recent SQLServer - their repo is a >> shim on top of SQLServers native XPath handling system, as far as I >> could make out. From talking to them, they seem to have convinced a >> SQLServer that it is really an RDF triplestore, and have added a few >> gui things on top. >> >> My actual advice to the first poster however, is that if you have no >> resources (money and/or time) then don't bother with an IR - it will >> require time, effort and probably money. If you feel up to putting in >> that time and effort, then fantastic, but don't be mislead that it >> won't suck up your time. >> >> > > I should have clarified... we have time to support and grow it, but not time > to program it (since we don't have any programmers). Also, we plan on having > money in the future, but we need to get something up and running now in > order to convince the people with money to provide it to us for this > purpose. Kind of a chicken and an egg thing. > > Edward > > > >> Ben O'Steen >> Software Engineer, >> Oxford University >> >> >>> >>> David. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> David Kane >>> Systems Librarian >>> Waterford Institute of Technology >>> http://library.wit.ie/ >>> T: ++353.51302838 >>> M: ++353.876693212 >>> >>> >