[Web4lib] Electronic Library

[Suelzer, Elizabeth]

Thank you all for your advice. I was quite overwhelmed with this project
yesterday- there were so many options to choose from- but I have a
better idea of what path to take.  I talked with our IT department about
DSpace, and they aren't able to put in the time to build the database. I
think I'm going to focus on Greenstone for now since I can download this
onto my computer and start working with it right away; I'm supposed to
get a prototype going in the next few weeks. 

Thanks again!

Liz

Elizabeth Suelzer
Interlibrary Loan and Generalist Librarian
(414)277-7182

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:11 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Electronic Library

I second the dSpace suggestion. It isn't fancy, but it isn't hard to set
up
and it is flexible.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Thomas Dowling
<tdowling at ohiolink.edu>wrote:

> On 07/23/2009 11:30 AM, Suelzer, Elizabeth wrote:
> > Hi all-
> >
> >
> >
> > My library would like to create a full-text online database for our
> > senior design papers and master's theses. We currently have about
200
> > senior design projects and 300 masters theses.  We don't have a lot
> > (any) money to spend on this, so I was looking at either creating
one
> > from scratch or using an open source option such as Greenstone.
> > Greenstone seems the most feasible for me since it works pretty much
> > out-of-the-box.
>
>
> There are lots of electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) sites using
> DSpace,
> and also Virginia Tech's ETD-db software as a repository, so you might
look
> at
> either of these also.  I'm not familiar with any that use Greenstone,
but
> that
> doesn't mean there are none.
>
> Let me strongly recommend that, whatever platform you pick, you enable
its
> OAI-PMH server support and register it with openaccess.org and
> opendoar.org.
> And if at all possible, enable the ETD-MS metadata format in addition
to
> Dublin
> Core.  Good tips at
<http://www.ndltd.org/join/ndltd-union-catalog-project
> >.
>
>
>
> --
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>
>
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