Dear Simon,

at the MPDL we are developing some solutions and services based on the 
eSciDoc service infrastructure. It's fully open source and is already in 
use. So far we are dealing with publications, images (from research) and 
scanned manuscripts. Upcoming, we start with a project to manage 
astronomical resources.

Maybe it would be good to actually have some more information from you 
what do you un

Am 04.02.2010 18:52, schrieb Simon Collins:
> Dear all
>
> I'm working with the team at Manchester University on the current RDM 
> program. We are about to finalise decisions on the technology that we 
> will use for the project, which presently includes the fedora-commons 
> repository, some Oracle tools and maybe some other bits and pieces. 
> However, Simon Hodson sensibly suggested that we poll this list to see 
> what other people are using before casting anything in stone.
>
> Whilst a complete open source solution would be ideal, we are 
> struggling to find one that meets broadly generic research data 
> management needs (we plan to implement over different labs/faculties 
> and don't want to implement niche solutions). We did evaluate the 
> ARCHER eResearch toolkit which leant itself reasonably well to the 
> problems in hand but we felt its fragmented and grid based 
> implementation would be difficult to extend upon and support with the 
> current IT infrastructure up here. For similar reasons (and time 
> implications) we are also not keen to undertake a large software 
> development program ourselves.
>
> It would be interesting to hear what the other projects in this 
> funding stream have chosen in terms of technology.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Simon
>

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