{"id":186,"date":"2008-01-15T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-01-15T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T17:03:01","slug":"innkeeper-at-the-roach-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/01\/innkeeper-at-the-roach-motel\/","title":{"rendered":"Innkeeper at the Roach Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINDS @ UW: Innkeeper at the Roach Motel<\/a> <\/p>\n

A slightly depressing look at the state of Institutional Repositories from the Library perspective – however, contains some interesting points, and can’t help pointing at it for the quote:<\/p>\n

“Likewise, Imperial College London’s effort to embed the repository in existing campus practice
\nand technology (Afshari and Jones 2007) is exemplary.”<\/p>\n

One of the issues raised by the article is the state of repository software, but I think it is a shame that it focusses solely on the Open Source offerings, without considering what the alternatives might be. Although they don’t get the coverage online of DSpace and e-Prints, there are many commercial products out there which can be used for an Insitutional Repository:<\/p>\n

DigiTool<\/a>
\nEquella<\/a>
\nThe Hive<\/a>
\nIntralibrary<\/a>
\nSymposia<\/a>
\nContentdm<\/a><\/p>\n

These products are not necessarily targetted directly at IR – some are from a library digital collections background, and some e-learning repository background, but they support the relevant standards.<\/p>\n

I’m not making an argument for commercial over Open Source here, but just wondering why the Open Source products in this particular area get all the attention?<\/p>\n

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