An agenda
- DH needs in particular
- existing open source DR: DSpace, Fez, Fedora Commons, Drupal
- Complexity vs usability
- Institutional concerns
- Software selection, procurement
- Where to start looking for solutions, sifting information
- Size of the community around an open source project – institutional risk.
- crowdcrafting.org
Open source repository projects
- DSpace and Fedora Commons – duraspace.org/
- DSpace is the “turn-key” web repository system – www.dspace.org/
- Fedora Commons is a pure repository framework
- Fez – PHP web front-end developed by University of Queensland on Fedora Commons
- Islandora – islandora.ca/ – Fedora Commons modules for Drupal 6 and 7
- Project Hydra – Fedora Commons code for Ruby On Rails – projecthydra.org/
Open Online tools
- Open Refine – openrefine.org/
- Free Your Metadata – freeyourmetadata.org/
- Mash-ups of NZ open-access data: www.mixandmash.org.nz/
- Digital NZ – www.digitalnz.org.nz/
Software Carpentry – learning programming
Proprietary systems
Rosetta from Ex Libris, at National Library.
How can OSS projects help bridge gaps?
- Collate digital preservation policies, find the feature gaps, write some code!
- e.g. Open Providence Model, in Fedora Commons.
