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

• software-carpentry.org/
• programminghistorian.org/
• www.opentechschool.org/

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.

A session around the use of FLOSS software and open standards/protocols in digital repositories, and the needs of digital humanities in particular. Discussions could centre around Fedora Commons, DSpace, Fez, Drupal and so on. How do we weigh rigid metadata schemata (MODS, MARC, DC-TERMS etc.) versus relying on full-text indexes, or open access versus access control, flexibility and complexity versus ease of use?