Steven Stanton – THATCamp DC 2017 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org Making History Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:57:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/files/2017/02/PROV_1617_2_THATCamp_Univ-calendarDrupal-Promo_220x220_v2_Option-2-150x150.jpg Steven Stanton – THATCamp DC 2017 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org 32 32 What’s new in institutional repositories? http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/2017/03/27/whats-new-in-institutional-repositories/ Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:40:56 +0000 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/?p=304 Continue reading →]]>

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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