[IRTalk] IR Software comparison by Unesco

[Bruce Becker]

Hi all,

I have started editing a collection on ScienceOpen for Data Infrastructures
https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/data-infrastructures

One of the articles I added to this was
"Open Source Software for Digital Preservation Repositories: a Survey"
(https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06336)
https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=933ee8dc-4123-47e8-8905-661cbaff70e2

This seems to be the most recent survey on the topic. I have found all
of these "surveys" to be biased and limited in scope, even though many
of them purport to be objective studies. There is not enough weight
given to the long-term operation and maintenance of these things, and
no consideration of how they would exist in a wider data
infrastructure environment. "Libraries" (using a wide meaning of
"place where information and data is curated" need to talk to other
parts of e-Infrastructure. Not many of these digital preservation
repositories do that. Of course, my very opinion is also biased, so
that that as you may.

I would like to invite anyone who has scholarly material on this kind
of  thing to suggest it  for the collection, and let  me know if you
would like to write an editorial or a review (or just re-publish one
you already have).

Thanks !
Bruce

On 27 August 2017 at 18:48, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:
> A comparison of the 5 top IR software solutions by Unesco (2014)
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> http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/news/institutional_repository_software.pdf
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> DSpace service providers: http://www.dspace.org/service-providers/
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> DSpace hosted option: http://dspacedirect.org/
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> Bepress Digital Commons https://www.bepress.com/ (Elsevier) – not Open
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> If you know of any more resent comparisons, please share …
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