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Hi Kathryn, Your choice of a solution depends a lot on your requirements. Based on what you've described here, I'd recommend DSpace. We use it at NYU as our IR, so we have a fair amount of expertise... but my reasons for recommending it are the maturity of the software, the market share worldwide, the community support, and the self-service capability. In addition, depending on your in-house technical staff or lack thereof, there are hosting providers for DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/service-providers) who do all the software maintenance so you can focus on the service. At NYU, we are also using and looking closely at a Hydra/Fedora solution, and there are compelling reasons for going in this direction, but this type of setup requires a significant technical investment. HTH. Best, Carol On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Knight, Kathryn E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Ben (and anyone who might be curious), > > Our current IR was built 10 years ago in-house using C# and SharePoint, > and feeds a MySQL database. It's primarily used for documents (technical > reports and journal articles authored by ORNL scientists), but is also > sometimes used for images, conference posters, presentations, and so forth. > From an administrative perspective, it's difficult to work with (querying, > workflow, etc.). From an end-user perspective, the submission process is > complex. From a metadata perspective, it's all unstandardized and very > messy. > > So, it's time to re-think the whole thing: we'd like to simplify the > submission process for our users, simplify things for administrators, and > the appease the metadata police (me). To what degree this is possible > remains to be seen...but we're encouraged by the numerous IR solutions > already available, and are interested in exploring how they might meet our > needs/how they might help us avoid re-creating some of the difficulties > we've run into with our current system. However, none of the library staff > have any experience with the IR platforms out there, so any kind of inside > info about working with Islandora, DSpace, hosted solutions, etc. would be > tremendously helpful. We are lucky in that we have plenty of on-hand > developers at the Lab, so open-source is definitely an option for us, but > since the library will ultimately be managing the IR we want to make sure > that we don't select something that requires an advanced degree in computer > science to maintain on a day-to-day bas! > is. > > Thanks so much to those of you who have responded already. This community > is the best! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Ben Companjen > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:04 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional repositories > > Hi Katie, > > Although I am not the best person to give opinions about repository > software in general, could I ask you to share reasons for considering a > different IR system? > What would you like the software to do that your current software doesn't? > What do your users say about your current IR? > > I assume you don't want to spend a lot of time and money to end up with a > system that is very similar to the current one. > > Regards, > > Ben > > > > > On 21-03-16 14:41, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Knight, Kathryn E." < > [log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >Hello all, > > > >My institution is working on a massive overhaul of our current > institutional repository. At this point we're still deciding what to choose > (DSpace, Invenio, etc.). Since I don't have much experience with IRs and so > far all I can do in meetings is wave my arms and crow about metadata a > bunch, I thought I'd appeal to the collective Code4Lib brain for some > repository input. If you have an IR at your institution, what do you like > about it? Hate? What about the end users? What is your submission process > like? Anything you wish it could do that it doesn't? Etc. > > > >Please feel free to contact me off list with your thoughts, if you care > to share-I'll keep all information confidential. > > > >Thanks so much, > > > >Katie > > > >Kathryn Knight > >Metadata and Cataloging Librarian > >Oak Ridge National Laboratory Research Library > -- Carol Kassel Senior Manager, Digital Library Infrastructure NYU Digital Library Technology Services [log in to unmask] (212) 992-9246 dlib.nyu.edu