[Web4lib] ContentDM VS ? Comparison

[Walter McGinnis]

Hi Nancy,

I'm the main developer for another piece of open source software that  
specializes in this sort of thing with the twist that it is heavily  
into user generated content.  It's called Kete and you can see an  
example of it at http://horowhenua.kete.net.nz/, the site it was  
written for.  It has been developed based on the Ruby on Rails web  
framework and the Zebra search index engine using Z39.50 and OAI-PMH  
Dublin Core among other standards.

It is also being used as more of a straight CMS by the New Zealand  
Mental Health Commission (http://www.mhc.govt.nz/) with an eye towards  
enabling more community participation in the future.

In the US, Orange County Library in Florida is developing a community  
project based on it.  Eric Atkinson spoke about it at CIL2008 (http://www.infotoday.com/cil2008/day.asp?day=Wednesday 
).

You can find out more about Kete at the community site for it at http://kete.net.nz/ 
  which also is run on the software.  If you are interested in  
searching across your library's different collections, you might be  
interested in a report I recently wrote for Horowhenua Library Trust  
on current strategies we are considering:

http://kete.net.nz/site/documents/show/32-federated-search-report-for-horowhenua-library-trusts-material

Cheers,
Walter McGinnis
Kete Project Lead
Katipo Communications, Ltd
http://katipo.co.nz/solutions/kete.html

On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Nancy Miller wrote:

> I'm from a small college library in Wyoming.  We are considering a CMS
> to manage our archival collection of WWII Heart Mountain Relocation  
> Camp
> images, plus other collections.  OCLC's ContentDM has been suggested  
> as
> a potential product.  How does this compare to other products that are
> being used?  Thumbnails and larger jpegs of our images are currently
> viewable on our web site.  We need a good way to search our  
> collections,
> thus a CMS system.  Thank you for all suggestions and words of wisdom.
>
>
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> Nancy Miller
>
> Northwest College, Hinckley Library
>
> Powell, WY
>
> http://www.northwestcollege.edu/library/
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