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Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference

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2018

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Too Many Options: Choosing An Open Source Ir Platform, David Wilcox Apr 2018

Too Many Options: Choosing An Open Source Ir Platform, David Wilcox

Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference

Selecting and implementing an open source institutional repository platform can be challenging. Should you build your own or adopt an existing product? What options are out there, and how do they compare? What are the resource requirements for installation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance? These questions are important but not always easily answered. This presentation will offer answers to these and other questions by using Fedora and DSpace as examples of open technologies that support different use cases, require different resource commitments, and provide different opportunities for configuration and customization. Both of these projects are stewarded by DuraSpace, a not-for-profit that …


Safe Passage: Opportunities For Growth During Ir Migration, Jenny Tolbert Apr 2018

Safe Passage: Opportunities For Growth During Ir Migration, Jenny Tolbert

Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference

Migration offers an opportunity to re-evaluate the IR's place within institutional, administrative, faculty, and student targets. Throughout our migration from dspace to bepress, our Digital Archive team was challenged to design a repository that meets the fluid needs of our current and future users. While the original repository instance succeeded in preserving and offering access to university scholarship and history, our future repository also needed greater visual and social capabilities. Our hope is that the new IR will mirror, showcase, and advance institutional efforts. Thus, this poster will provide an overview of migration in the light of policy evaluation and …


Surveying The Landscape: Hosted, Open Source, Or Undecided, Josh Cromwell Apr 2018

Surveying The Landscape: Hosted, Open Source, Or Undecided, Josh Cromwell

Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference

During this session, we will learn from attendees about their current or future plans regarding their IR. We will also examine what role the Elsevier acquisition of bepress has played into any decisions to migrate (either to or from that platform) or stay, and will hear ideas from all groups, including those who may be at institutions that do not yet have an IR, about what they would like to see from all IR platforms moving forward.