1. Choosing an Open Source Digital Collection Software Solution: Eprints DSpace Drupal Omeka

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

3. Objective Five stages of implementation: Installation (DSpace)
Branding
Collection setup
Item ingest
User Interface

4. LAMP
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP/Perl
Eprints
Omeka
Drupal

5. Linux
Tomcat
PostgresSQL
Java
JSP/XSLT
DSpace

6. EPrints
DSpace
Drupal
Omeka

7. EPrints University of Southampton, UK First released (v 2.0) 2002
Current version (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.”

8. 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

9. EPrints: Branding

18. Step 1: /usr/share/eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/subjects
Step 3: $ bin/import_subjects archivename filename

19. Step 1: /usr/share/eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/subjects
Step 3: $ /bin/import_subjects <archive id> -xml

20. Collection “Division” Setup

25. EPrints: Item Ingest

32. 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)

33. 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

35. EPrints
DSpace
Drupal
Omeka

36. DSpace HP-MIT Libraries Alliance (2002) DuraSpace (2009)
Current version (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.”

37. 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)

38. 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

39. JSPUI: Java Server Pages User Int.

40. XMLUI : Manakin (default theme)

41. /dspace/config/xmlui.xconf
Stop / Start Tomcat

42. Kubrick theme

43. @Mire Mirage Theme

44. Changing home page XMLUI
/dspace/config/news-xmlui.xml

48. New Preservation Tool: 1.7

49. OAI Harvesting

67. 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

68. DSpace: Challenges Research Projects: Discovery faceted search Embargo
DSpace Statistics
Thumbnails
XMLUI Customization

69. EPrints
DSpace
Drupal
Omeka

70. 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. .”

71. 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

72. 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

73. EPrints
DSpace
Drupal
Omeka

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

75. 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

76. 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

85. 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

86. Why Open Source? lower cost, predatory vendor lock in.
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, and an end to The Open Source Initiative (OSI)
more flexibility,
lower cost,
predatory vendor lock in.

87. Lower Cost !!??!!
Server
Technical-savvy staff
Programmer?
Time

88. 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

89. 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

90. Librarians of the World Unite!!
¡Viva la Revolución!
We have nothing to lose!!
Control the means of Production!!