I work in a small academic library. We are starting to look at some kind of software that will enable us to have a small Open Archive with material produced in our institution and material that are delivered at lectures and conferences at our instituion. I would prefer it to be open source, but am interested in all alternatives. Since we are a small library and have to do most of the software installation and administration I hope to find something that is not to demanding to run.
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You might be interested in considering Kete, an open source digital archives program from New Zealand. It was developed by the Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications, the original developers of the Koha open source ILS. I haven't had a chance to use it myself, but it's been sitting on my list of things to give a closer look for a while. HLT's digital archives site is called Kete Horowhenua. There is also an online map of known installations of the system. According to its documentation it is designed to run on Unix-like operating systems (including Linux and MacOS X), and doesn't officially support Windows. (Kete is apparently just a Ruby on Rails application so in theory it could run on Windows but the developers have chosen to not support it.) There is an Installation Guide if you want to assess the requirements of setting up an installation. |
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Your best bet would probably be XAMP (if your using windows) and a wiki software on top of it. Like Mediawiki which is what Wikipedia runs on. A simple setup can be pretty easy (instructions here), an advanced setup can be very technical... Also if you set up Mediawiki corectly you can restrict editing to only staff. As an aside I am actually a sofware engeneer by trade so your mileage with "easy" may vary. Don't let that dissuade you though it really is not that bad. Everything mentioned is open source and both XAMP and Mediawiki are pretty well supported on the Internet. So if you use this and run into a snag remember Google is your friend. |
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To be clear, what Seth called XAMP is XAMPP for Windows. I've used it on Windows machines as well and found it very helpful. |
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