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Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to build a consortial repository using FEDORA

Posted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006, at 12:38 pm, and filed under DRC, Economies of Scale, Fedora, Unified Content Repository. Note: Hypertext links in the printed form of this document are marked with a superscript "L" plus a number. The number corresponds to the list of web addresses at the bottom of the document.

On Friday, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries announced the creation of a consortium-wide digital repository project similar to that of the Ohio Digital Resource Commons.

Colorado Alliance Digital Repository Project Approved


The Board of Directors of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries has approved initial funding for a consortium-wide digital repository project at its October 19, 2006 meeting.

The Board of Directors of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries has approved initial funding for a consortium-wide digital repository project at its October 19, 2006 meeting. The project will use the Fedora open source software which was selected after a long evaluation process by the Institutional Repository Implementation Team, chaired by John Culshaw from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Alliance Digital Repository (ADR) project allows the participating member libraries to develop a shared technical and development infrastructure to store, preserve and disseminate a whole variety of digital objects including images, text, audio, video, learning objects, data sets or any other kind of material. The project will make use of open source tools developed by others in order to fast track functionality. As new software is developed as part of the project it will also be made available to the open source community.

via Peter Suber’s Open Access News

Welcome to the party!

(This post was updated on 28-Oct-2006.)

2 Comments

  1. denver criminal lawyer | June 14, 2009 at 10:56 pm | Permalink

    Projects like Alliance Digital Repository (ADR) encourage the use of open source software which ensures that the best quality software is easily accessible to the majority of the educated masses. I strongly believe that application of knowledge should be done more to help the larger community and less for profits. The ADR project is a major step in achieving that milestone.

  2. the Jester | June 15, 2009 at 8:58 am | Permalink

    Thank you for your comment, “denver criminal lawyer”, although I think that open source software is also good for the ‘uneducated masses’ as well. Also, please pardon me if I offend you by removing the URL to your personal injury practice site (which was w w w . f l e s c h l a w . c o m — in case anyone else was interested). While I applaud your support of open source software — which I believe to be sincere because you are, after all, an honest lawyer and wouldn’t resort to link-bating tactics for a little extra Google juice — I prefer to keep a respectable distance between DLTJ and the legal profession. I’m sure you understand.

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  1. pintiniblog | October 27, 2006 at 6:46 am | Permalink

    links from Technoratiadoptent la tenue “consortium” (ladite Académie étant composée de 4 institutions différentes). C’est aussi le cas de la Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, qui a choisi elle aussi Fedora… Source: Open Access News Màj (27 oct.): cf. aussi 18:20 Publié dans Dépôts institutionnels | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : depots institutionnels, institutional repositories, oa, pintini, pinitiniblog

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