What’s new in institutional repositories?

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Steven Stanton

What are people using?

  • ShareShelf
    • better for cataloging and art history
    • great for images
    • those inside the instituation can see content uploaded
  • ShareShelf Commons
    • Uploaded items can be published externally
  • DSpace
    • Updates regularly, making it difficult to customize when it comes time to upgrade to new version
    • Difficult with API because it keeps changing
  • Hydra in a Box
  • Fedora
    • Difficult with API because it keeps changing
    • Humanities commons is possibly a fedora database
  • Digital Commons
    • Allows publishing
    • Better for smaller schools
  • Greenstone
  • Islandora
    • Maybe moving to digital commons
  • DSpace and Symplectic Elements
    • Amanda uses at Virginia Tech
    • Allows professors to show what they’ve done and then it is uploaded directly into DSpace
  • Institutional vs. Subject Repositories
    • MIT has 44% of faculty publications which is a high number
    • Researchers are more aligned with their field than the institution they work for, so they’re more likely to use the subject repositories
    • Faculty is more likely to use for-profit and subject based repositories
    • SSRN is now for-profit
  • Patrick does Omeka S Beta demonstration
    • What’s different?
      • Stops people from putting htmls in description which helps with metadata
      • Media tab will now allow all types of media
      • Arbitrary html will get its own spot, which will make it easier for developers to post from across the web
      • Huge list of properties is cleaned up
      • Ability to add sites, each with their own modules and themes
    • When will it be out of beta
      • Hopefully by fall semester
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About Steven Stanton

My name is Steven and I’m a freshman and majoring in Political Science. I’m from Trumbull, Connecticut which is about an hour from New York City. I come from a very big and very loud Greek family and have a knack for Greek history and religion, even though I never learned the language. I am a big fan of twitter where I am often making a fool of myself, however I don’t really use instagram or facebook too often. I clearly love food, and the photo to the right is taken at my favorite restaurant, Old Ebbitt Grille in D.C. When I’m not in class, sleeping or eating I’m probably out and about in D.C, checking out museums or just walking around the mall.