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.