[Wactclc-alma] Content Management and Alma

[Guidry, Wade]

Nicole,

Sounds like you're talking about an institutional repository? For storing a variety of institutional content, like faculty works, student works, special collections? Does that sound about right?

CONTENTdm is a decent platform, and can be cost effective if you self-host. (Having OCLC host CONTENTdm for you pretty much doubles the price). Lots of CONTENTdm being used in the NW. CONTENTdm is basically PHP running on top of IIS. So, depending on what languages and platforms your campus likes, it might be a good option.  Self-hosted, CONTENTdm is probably something like $5K / year for a Bellevue-sized institution.

DSpace is a widely used open source platform for institutional repositories. I think of it mostly as a store for original scholarly works. U of O has a very large IR, that I believe runs on DSpace, at least it did as of a few years ago: https://library.uoregon.edu/diglib/irg/SB_Role.html. I've had limited exposure to DSpace, but my impression is that it's pretty complex to run. We had it very briefly at Puget Sound.

Bepress Digital Commons is used by several of the smaller institutions in the Alliance, and we used it at Puget Sound (http://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/ ). It's a hosted platform for institutional repositories. Pretty easy to use and maintain. I would compare it to LibGuides in terms of level of technical effort required. It's in the $15K  / year range for a Bellevue-sized institution, based on my experience. It's thought of more as a store for text material, but it can also manage digital images and photos decently.

Archives Space (archivesspace.org) is platform that is being implemented at the Alliance (https://www.orbiscascade.org/archivesspace-implementation ) for archives work. It's for managing archives metadata, but not digital objects themselves. So, it's pretty specialized, and primarily for archives departments.

ARTStor Shared Shelf is somewhat similar to CONTENTdm in functionality, though I think it is usually more expensive that CONTENTdm self-hosted.


I've had at least brief exposure to all of the platforms above, and I feel like CONTENTdm (self-hosted) is the best, most flexible, system. Digital Commons is a close second, but it's kind of expensive relative to CONTENTdm.






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Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager
Big Bend Community College
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509.760.4474
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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Content Management and Alma

Our campus starting to look at getting some sort of content management/digital asset management platform. Ideally, this would be something that would integrate with Alma.

I know that Ex Libris has their Rosetta product, there is Content DM from OCLC. Does anyone have a platform that they use? What has been your experience working with it?

Thanks,

Nicole Longpré
Systems Librarian
Library Program Chair
Bellevue College
nlongpre at bellevuecollege.edu<mailto:nlongpre at bellevuecollege.edu>
425-564-3071

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