Kevin Bradley, Junran Lei, and Chris Blackall. Paris: UNESCO, 2007
Towards an Open Source Repository and Preservation System: Recommendations on the Implementation of an Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System and on Related Software Development
This Document defines the requirements for a digital archival and preservation system using standard hardware and describes a set of open source software which can be used to implement it.
The Canadian Digital Information Strategy is currently issued in draft form for comment by any interested person or organization. Please note that comments are due by Nov 23, 2007.
Diversity in digital content production is encouraged. Multicultural Canada and the Chinese-Canadian Genealogy website are mentioned in the draft. Besides thinking about the comment, shall we organize a workshop and invite Ian and Shumin as keynote speakers? Allan had similar workshop or conference idea. Shall we collaborate? or go for an informal, social gathering and meanwhile have digital strategy as the subject of talks and discussion? since some folks proposed holiday gathering idea to me anyway. We may come up with better ideas at the party.
Thought the major ILS vendors would dominate the market, but I heard more and more open source ILS recently, including the public libraries in BC–Evergreen Open ILS for all of BC.
I wonder about this when I was reading about PowerSearch Plus by Gale. There seem to be more and more, including SFU. Ex Libris’ MetaLib is widely used. What’s the difference among so many vendors’ federated search?