Lee Library Information Systems Task List
Institutional Repository

Description: Long-term consistent reference to documents
Projects: DSpace, Institutional Repository
Priority: 99 Task ID: 540
Long Description: One of the problems with digital documents is the long-term reference them in a way that is meaningful over a very long period of time. Although this may appear to be peripheral to the institutional repository, I think we need to deal with this topic now.
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 11/14/2003
Changed: 11/18/2004  
11/14/2003 There appear to be a number of solutions. CNRI's Public Handle System is one method being used by DSpace. Another is the Persistent URL (PURL).
3/30/2004 DSpace implemented the CNRI Handle System.
6/1/2004 This issue is closed for DSpace, but may still be an issue for the Institutional Repository in the long-term. I'm going to remove DSpace from the list of projects for which this is active, but retain it under the Institutional Repository and Documentum projects.
11/18/2004 I'd like to consider creating another Handle Server for the library and refer all URLs to the Handle Server for items in CONTENTdm.
Description: Institutional Repository References
Projects: Institutional Repository
Priority: 9998 Task ID: 541
Long Description: References to documents about institutional repositories
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 11/14/2003
Changed: 7/30/2004  
11/14/2003 Here are some initial documents on the topic.
2/2/2004 Crow, Raym. [30]A Guide to Institutional Repository Software. 2nd ed   New York: Open Society Institute, 2004. (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_Institutional_Repository_Software_v2.pdf). - If you need a quick overview of institutional repository software options, try this brief guide from the Open Society Institute. It describes software that: (1) is open source, (2) conforms to the latest version of the OAI metadata harvesting protocols, and (3) is currently available for use. This includes ARNO, CDSware, DSpace, Eprints, Fedora, i-Tor, and MyCoRe. Each system is overviewed in a separate section, and then the features of all systems are compared in a detailed, lengthy table.
Description: Investigate Documentum
Projects: Documentum, Institutional Repository
Priority: 99 Task ID: 535
Long Description: Documentum appears to be a commerical instutitional repository.
Status: Hold
Owner: Hold, Unowned Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 11/12/2003
Changed: 3/29/2005  
8/19/2004 No word on access to Documentum.
11/18/2004 No word on access to Documentum.
12/1/2004 If I don't hear anything about Documentum by January 1, I'll close this item and wait for them to approach us.
1/25/2005 I haven't heard anything from Documentum, but I'm recommending that the institutional archive project consider using it. I'm move this task to "hold".
3/29/2005 Dave Kennison and Mike Brown presented Documentum to Chris Erickson's digital preservation committee. The only component they have implmented is web page management.
Description: Blackboard Content Management as IR
Projects: Blackboard-Library Services, Institutional Repository
Priority: 99 Task ID: 814
Long Description: Track the status of Blackboard Content Management as an institutional repository.
Status: Hold
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 8/27/2004
Changed: 2/28/2005  
8/27/2004 Garin Granata writes: "We are moving forward with a two-month "production pilot" starting the end of September. This means we will allow a limited number of instructors and students to use the Content System functions in our Bb 6 production system. If the production pilot goes well I plan to turn on the CS campus-wide thereafter."
9/15/2004 Garin Granata, Jon Mott, Allyson Washburn, and I met. Garin is managing the Content Management pilot. The library is interested in testing BbCM as a replacement for ERes and for digital content.
11/18/2004 This project is on-going. The library is investigating BbCM for use as Electronic Reserve, an an open institutional repository, and how to link with other repositories.
2/28/2005 With all of the problems with Bb, the content management investigation has been put on hold by CID.

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