[Web4lib] selecting a CMS/DAMS for a digital library

[Jorge Serrano Cobos]

Think on the long term:

Do you just need digital libraries features?

Maybe thinking on other CMS-like features (for instance, events management,
streaming video, social interaction, etc.) ?

What would be the most common tasks users should complete?

The solution could change, depending on these issues.

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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Katie-Rose Repp <repp at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> Oxfam commissioned a rather nice DAM that they've since made open source. I
> used ResourceSpace <http://www.resourcespace.org/about.php> last summer
> while organizing an advertising agency's image collections, and I was
> pretty
> pleased with the interface and affordances. It did require some PHP coding
> on the backend, though, so make sure you have someone on board who can
> cover
> that.
>
> Katie-Rose
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Ranti Junus <ranti.junus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I also heard something about Rescarta Foundation:
> http://www.rescarta.com/
> > It's open source and free as well.
> >
> > I haven't tried it out myself, but looks like they're a fine tool as
> > well. Several examples:
> >
> > http://198.111.166.82:8080/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebBrowse.jsp
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.ecpubliclibrary.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=193
> >
> > http://www.flhiddentreasures.com/
> >
> >
> > ranti.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Andrew Hankinson
> > <andrew.hankinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Kelly,
> > >
> > > Have you looked at DSpace, Fedora, Eprints or CDS Invenio?
> > >
> > > They're all open source and usually conform to Digital Repository
> > standards
> > > like OAIS or Dublin Core.
> > >
> > > -Andrew
> > >
> > > On 16-Feb-10, at 7:32 PM, Kelly McElroy wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello all,
> > >>
> > >> I am brand new to the list, so apologies if this is off-topic. I am a
> > >> student in the MLIS program at the University of British Columbia, and
> > am
> > >> currently doing a co-op work term helping a non-profit organization
> > start
> > >> a
> > >> digital library. We're currently considering different software
> > programs,
> > >> and while I've been sifting through the big players (including
> > CONTENTdm,
> > >> Greenstone, and per IT's request, SharePoint) I keep wondering if
> there
> > is
> > >> a
> > >> simpler option that I am missing. I've used a few helpful case studies
> > as
> > >> well asinformation put out by JISC, but I'm curious: are there are
> other
> > >> good tools out there for this sort of decision-making?
> > >>
> > >> Thank you in advance, and feel free to respond off-list.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Kelly McElroy
> > >> MAS/MLIS candidate, University of British Columbia
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> Katie-Rose Repp
> MSIS 2010
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> School of Information and Library Science
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