DH

A rambling agenda

• DH needs in particular
• existing open source DR: DSpace, Fez, Fedora Commons, Drupal
• Complexity vs usability
• Institutional concerns
• Software selection, procurement
  • Where to start looking for solutions, sifting information
  • Size of the community around an open source project - institutional risk.
  • http://crowdcrafting.org

Open source repository projects

• DSpace and Fedora Commons - http://duraspace.org/
  • DSpace is the "turn-key" web repository system - http://www.dspace.org/
  • Fedora Commons is a pure repository framework
• Fez - PHP web front-end developed by University of Queensland on Fedora Commons
• Islandora - http://islandora.ca/ - Fedora Commons modules for Drupal 6 and 7
• Project Hydra - Fedora Commons code for Ruby On Rails - http://projecthydra.org/

Open Online tools

• Open Refine - http://openrefine.org/
• Free Your Metadata - http://freeyourmetadata.org/
• Mash-ups of NZ open-access data: http://www.mixandmash.org.nz/
• Digital NZ - http://www.digitalnz.org.nz/

Software Carpentry - learning programming

• http://software-carpentry.org/
• http://programminghistorian.org/
• http://www.opentechschool.org/

Proprietary systems

Rosetta from Ex Libris

How can OSS projects help bridge gaps?

• Collate digital preservation policies, find the feature gaps, write some code!
• e.g. Open Providence Model, in Fedora Commons.