Dear Colleagues,
The
Repositories Support Project (RSP) is
pleased to announce the results of a survey of repository software
solutions that it conducted in association with the Repositories Software Day it
held in Manchester in March 2009. We
gave the questionnaire to all the software suppliers present, and received responses for
nine products: CONTENTdm, Digital
Commons, DigiTool, DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, intraLibrary, Open Repository, and
VITAL.
The
questionnaire covered about 50 points, under headings such
as:
- Supported Item Types
- User Interface Functions
- User Validation
- Software Platforms &
Dependencies
- Machine-to-Machine Interoperability
- Administrators' Functions
- Documentation & Help
- Services
- Exemplar Repositories
Suppliers were asked to distinguish between
features that are available now in the current release of their
software, and features that are still undergoing testing or or planned for the
future.
We hope repository managers will find the survey
results useful, especially if they
are in the process of specifying a new repository.
Regards
Peter Millington
SHERPA Technical
Development Officer
Greenfield Medical Library, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, England
Phone: +44 (0)115 84
68481