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Thanks, Stuart. Here's some clarification: (a) is this primarily an internal-facing system or for broadcasting your content to the world? Internal, primarily, though we need to be able to send our public data to OSTI via an XML feed (b) are you expecting users to search and find content on the IR, or are you using a discovery service for that kind of thing? Via the IR. (c) is content going to be deposited manually into the IR or fed from some other system(s)? Manual deposit, though we'd like to also make use of APIs (ORCiD, Web of Science, etc.) (d) are you looking to do everything yourself on site? everything yourself in the cloud? cloud hosted externally managed? or locally installed externally managed? It will depend on how secure we can make the system (and I'm not a security expert, so that's about as specific as I can be). Some things will be in the repository that we will want to remain restricted from public view/search. (e) what kind of authentication system are you looking to connect to, if any? (LDAP, Shibboleth federation, SAML, etc) Depends on the above, I imagine. (f) what mix of content do you have? PDFs and word docs? Large scientific datasets? 4K video streams? ... PDFs and Word docs, mostly, but with some conference posters/presentations/photos mixed in (g) does 'publish to the web and push to archive.org' meet your archiving needs or do you have more stringent requirements? We are only required to maintain a records system, but I'd like to advocate for long-term preservation as well. (h) do you need authority control? Yes -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stuart A. Yeates Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 3:30 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional repositories Others have shared some useful experiences, but I think you need to be clearer about what you're looking for. (a) is this primarily an internal-facing system or for broadcasting your content to the world? (b) are you expecting users to search and find content on the IR, or are you using a discovery service for that kind of thing? (c) is content going to be deposited manually into the IR or fed from some other system(s)? (d) are you looking to do everything yourself on site? everything yourself in the cloud? cloud hosted externally managed? or locally installed externally managed? (e) what kind of authentication system are you looking to connect to, if any? (LDAP, Shibboleth federation, SAML, etc) (f) what mix of content do you have? PDFs and word docs? Large scientific datasets? 4K video streams? ... (g) does 'publish to the web and push to archive.org' meet your archiving needs or do you have more stringent requirements? (h) do you need authority control? ... cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Knight, Kathryn E. <[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 >