Strategies for Building Successful Digital Initiatives at Small to Medium Size Institutions Rachel Frick & Andrew Rouner.

Strategies for Building Successful Digital

Initiatives at Small to Medium Size Institutions

Rachel Frick &

Andrew Rouner

Digital library startup now more feasible Smaller institutions already entering into

digital library development

Changes in standards for encoding texts SGML

Standardized Generalized Markup Language

Changes in standards for encoding texts SGML

Standardized Generalized Markup Language

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

Changes in standards for encoding texts SGML

Standardized Generalized Markup Language

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

XML eXtensible Markup Language

Basic needs for digital library software: delivery search management archiving

Software: License: DAMS: Search: XML DB:

URL:

DSpace open source

(institutional repository software)

(includes Lucene)

www.dspace.org

Fedora open source

X www.fedora .info

Elated open source

(Fedora add-on)

(includes Lucene)

elated.sourceforge.net

XPAT / DLXS

mixed delivery of DL content

X www.dlxs.org

ContentDM commercial delivery of DL content

contentdm.com

Olive commercial delivery of DL content

www.olivesoftware.com

Lucene open source

X lucene.apache.org/java/docs/

PhiloLogic open source

X philologic.uchicago.edu

Zebra free from vendor

X www.indexdata.dk/zebra/

eXist open source

X exist.sourceforge.net

Tamino X X www1.softwareag.com/corporate/products/tamino/default.asp

Xyleme X X www.xyleme.com

what needs does the DL software address and to what extent does it address them? consider your data in DL software selection balance that against future growth of your DL be aware software can hold data hostage consider software’s user community and future

development prospects be realistic about programming costs for

features you want in open source, and weigh this against the costs of commercial

software (be aware that costs for commercial software

are almost never flat rates)

www.soros.org/openaccess/software/

UR workflow: XML editors

UR workflow: XML editors there are open source XML editors available,

but may not be ready others like XML Spy are more expensive oXygen can process an XML file through a

stylesheet, and output to a browser and especially of concern for digital library

development—it has TEI support built-in

UR workflow: managing files

UR workflow: Subversion

QuickTime™ and aMPEG-4 Video decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

UR workflow: managing files

Metadata, and Document and Digital Object Modeling

Metadata, and Document and Digital Object Modeling