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• Choosing an Open Source
• Digital Collection Software Solution
• Eprints
• DSpace
• Drupal
• Omeka

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• Joseph Fisher
• Database Management Librarian _at_ UMass Lowell
• Digital Commonwealth Executive Committee
• Student in the University of Arizona SIRLS
• Graduate Certificate Program in Digital
  Information Management (DigIn)
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  digin.arizona.edu

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Objective

• Five stages of implementation
• Installation (DSpace)
• Branding
• Collection setup
• Item ingest
• User Interface

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LAMP

• Linux
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP/Perl

• Eprints
• Omeka
• Drupal

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• Linux
• Tomcat
• PostgresSQL
• Java
• JSP/XSLT

DSpace
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• EPrints

• DSpace

• Drupal

• Omeka

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EPrints

• University of Southampton, UK
• First released (v 2.0) 2002
• Current version 3.2.7 (v3 2006)
• Linux / Windows (Perl)
• EPrints is the easiest and fastest way
  to set up repositories of open access
  research literature, scientific data, theses,
  reports and multimedia.

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EPrints Key Features

• software links to the SHERPA/RoMEO database so
  authors can easily verify their publisher
  policies
• LCSH framework included that can be manually
  expanded
• Supports internal and external authority files or
  auto-fill from previous database entries.
• Multiple item import and export options
• Thumbnails and preview images of search items

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EPrints Branding
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Step 1 /usr/share/eprints3/archives/archivename/c
fg/subjects Step 2
Step 3 bin/import_subjects archivename
filename
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Step 1 /usr/share/eprints3/archives/archivename/c
fg/subjects Step 2
Step 3 /bin/import_subjects ltarchive idgt -xml
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Collection Division Setup
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EPrints Item Ingest
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EPrints Conclusion

• Easy to install, easy to brand, best for a single
  subject-specific repository
• Designed for documents, though now supports
  multiple file types
• Easy embargo, default thumbnail and preview
• Some preservation support History module for
  tracking changes, METS export plugin
• V3 does enable easier development of plugins
  (20-30 listed per year)

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EPrints Challenges

• Not all Dublin Core fields provided (relation,
  source, contributor, coverage)
• Lack of theme options
• Possible with Views to create custom collection
  space within a repository?
• Statistics? Permissions? Plugins?
• Documentation not well developed

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• EPrints

• DSpace

• Drupal

• Omeka

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DSpace

• HP-MIT Libraries Alliance (2002)
• DuraSpace (2009)
• Current version 1.7.1 (2.0 due in Oct.)
• Linux / Windows (Java)
• DSpace preserves and enables easy and open
  access to all types of digital content including
  text, images, moving images, mpegs and data
  sets.

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DSpace Key Features

• Preservation support Bit integrity checker,
  format registry, item history, handles, DuraCloud
  backup
• Discover faceted seach/browse interface
• Qualified Dublin Core base or MODS thru xmlui
• Embargo capability
• OAI-PMH harvesting, both data and service
  supplier
• Manakin XMLUI provides flexible though
  challenging customization capability (multiple
  custom archives)

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Dspace Installation

• Prerequisite Software
• Linux or Windows
• Oracle Java JDK  
• Maven (Java build tool for stage 1)
• Ant (Java build tool for stage 2)
• PostgreSQL or Oracle
• Tomcat
• Perl

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JSPUI Java Server Pages User Int.
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XMLUI Manakin (default theme)
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/dspace/config/xmlui.xconf
Stop / Start Tomcat
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Kubrick theme
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_at_Mire Mirage Theme
http//demo.dspace.org/xmlui
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Changing home page XMLUI

• /dspace/config/news-xmlui.xml

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New Preservation Tool 1.7
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OAI Harvesting
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DSpace Conclusion

• Very functional out of the box with easy branding
  
• Increasing preservation management support
  (PREMIS support coming in v2.0)
• Good documentation, training materials, and broad
  support base
• Platform is versatile and flexible with ability
  to customize collection interfaces
• OAI-PMH/ORE/SWORD (postponed)
• SOLR-based statistics engine
• Metadata registry, option to add new schemas

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DSpace Challenges

• Research Projects
• Discovery faceted search
• Embargo
• DSpace Statistics
• Thumbnails
• XMLUI Customization

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• EPrints

• DSpace

• Drupal

• Omeka

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Drupal

• Became Open Source project (2001)
• Current version 7 (Jan. 2011)
• Content Management Framework (CMF)
• LAMP / Windows (PHP)
• Drupal allows anyone to easily publish, manage
  and organize a wide variety of content on a
  website. .

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Drupal Key Features

• Numerous themes
• Extensive module availability
• Custom Control Kit (CCK) allows creation of
  fields for input and display
• Faceted Search
• Image administration
• Advanced Search
• Views create customized lists and queries
• OAI-PMH module

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Drupal Conclusions

• Flexible and versatile but takes time and effort
  to put all the pieces together
• Large, varied, and active community of users and
  developers with good documentation
• Limited only by module availability, of which
  there are nearly 8,000 (back to version 4.x)
• Challenges modules are managed individually and
  the entire structure manually constructed

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• EPrints

• DSpace

• Drupal

• Omeka

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Omeka

• Center for History and New Media at George Mason
  University (2008)
• LAMP / Windows (PHP)
• V 1.3.2 (2011)
• Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source
  web-publishing platform for the display of
  library, museum, archives, and scholarly
  collections and exhibitions.

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Omeka Key Features

• Designed with non-IT specialists in mind
• as easy as launching a blog
• Over a dozen themes
• Over 30 Plugins
• OAI-PMH Harvester
• Exhibit Builder
• LC Subject Headings
• Comments
• Social Bookmarking
• Item Relationships

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Omeka.net

• Cloud web hosting
• Five tiers
• 500MB for free with 1 site, 4 plugins, 4 themes
• Tier 1 49 for 1GB, 2 sites, 6 plugins
• Tier 4 999 for 25GB, unlimited sites and
  plugins

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Omeka Conclusion

• Extremely easy plug and play functionality
• Exhibit plugin enables easy customized collection
  interfaces
• Immediate metadata field additions
• Limited user and development base, but still new
  and growing
• Very easy OAI-PMH capability

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Why Open Source?

• Mission
• Open source is a development method for software
  that harnesses the power of distributed peer
  review and transparency of process. The promise
  of open source is better quality, higher
  reliability,
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  and an end to
• The Open Source Initiative (OSI)
  http//www.opensource.org/

lower cost,
more flexibility,
predatory vendor lock in.
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Lower Cost !!??!!

• Server
• Technical-savvy staff
• Programmer?
• Time

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Choice Criteria

• Institutional Repository or Digital Archive
• Ease of use
• Metadata flexibility
• OAI Harvesting
• File format support
• Multiple collection interface customization
• Popularity / Reputation
• Size of active community
• Development commitment

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Insource Outsource

• two major problems

First, the core mission of for-profit service
providers is not to preserve and provide access
to significant digital objects. It is, however,
to generate a profit and stay in business.
Second, if an outsourcing trend takes hold and
gains momentum, then cultural institutions are at
great risk of losing their own value proposition
and viability as institutions in the digital age.
Tyler O. Walters, Katherine Skinner. Economics,
sustainability, and the cooperative model in
digital preservation. Library Hi Tech (28.2) 2010
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Librarians of the World Unite!!
Viva la Revolución!
We have nothing to lose!!
Control the means of Production!!