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Foss4lib.org, operated by Lyrasis, has an inventory of open source digital asset management systems. OCLC's ContentDM is a bit long in the tooth, but is still very widely used. Islandora and Hydra, both using Fedora Commons as their repository, are very popular among academic libraries. Islandora has a larger public library audience, although Hydra has recently received a substantial IMLS grant for a project to make it easier to work with. Islandora uses The popular Drupal CMS as its front end, and Hydra uses Ruby on Rails. MPOW, the Cherry Hill Company provides Islandora services, including development, training, theming (design) and general consultation. We also offer a fully managed and hosted Islandora service. Nothing in the library space ever dies, so folks are still using Greenstone, and they do have a community. There are at least 100 systems that are or can serve as repositories. Some, like the ILS vendor offerings, are lame, others, such as Sharepoint, are not a good fit with libraries. The rest all have a target audience that they are trying to please. As long as the systems you are considering fully meet your requirement, if you are going to mostly rely on a vendor, then you must feel comfortable with and confident in that vendor. If you have a programming resources on staff, and plan to work with an open source system, then the project community becomes your paramount consideration. Thanks, Cary On Friday, May 8, 2015, Cooper, Krystal <[log in to unmask] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>> wrote: > Does anyone know of a list or website that lists what digital library or > digital collection software in use at libraries and museums? > > I'm curious to know what is most popular or heavily used? Open source vs > paid. > > Is Greenstone still heavily used or is it being phased out? > > KC > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com