Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage, and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework. Islandora was originally developed by the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library, but is now implemented and contributed to by an ever-growing international community.
Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) was originally developed by researchers at Cornell University as an architecture to store, manage, and access digital content in the form of digital objects. Fedora defines a set of abstractions for expressing digital objects, asserting relationships among digital objects, and linking behaviors to digital objects. Developed by the community and stewarded by Duraspace — a nonprofit involved with open source technology projects including VIVO and DSpace — Fedora Commons implements the Fedora abstractions in an open source, modular repository system for managing and disseminating digital content.
Fedora Commons is widely used in the academic sector as a basis for digital libraries, archives, or repository systems. Its worldwide installed user base includes academic and cultural heritage organizations, universities, research institutions, university libraries, national libraries, government agencies, and more.
Management and maintenance of any digital content type and of metadata about content in any format
Scale to millions of objects
Access data via APIs (REST/SOAP)
Provide RDF search (SPARQL)
Rebuilder utility (for disaster recovery and data migration)
Entire repository can be rebuilt from the digital object and content files
Content model architecture (define "types" of objects by their content)
Many storage options (database and file systems)
JMS messaging (your apps can "listen" to repository events)
Web-based administrator GUI (low-level object editing)
OAI-PMH provider service
GSearch (fulltext) search service
Multiple, customer driven front-ends
A digital repository software package that may be used to accept, manage and publish digital objects. It is widely used in academia as a system to manage academic research papers, electronic theses and other distinct digital resources. EPrints offers an extensible plug-in architecture, enabling data processing activities to be tailored to the requirements of the institution.
Features:
LOAI-PMH support
Deposit interface for mediated or self-deposit
PRONOM integration
PLANETS PLATO integration (forthcoming)
Dublin Core, EP3-XML, METS, MODS metadata format support
Extensible plug-in architecture
A digital asset management system for the storage, management and delivery of raster images, audiovisual content, documents and other digital asset types. The software provides limited eCommerce functionality for use by institutions that wish to use the system to sell digital products. It may be installed in-house on a Windows/Linux/Unix system or hosted on a system operated by the developers.
Asset storage can be customized to suit the needs of your project on server hard disk, network or SAN, cloud storage via Amazon or Rackspace, via Box accounts, or stored as BLOBs in your database.
Pricing quotes are available through the product website. Asset Bank offers active customer support including guided demos, customized quotes, monthly webinars, a knowledge base, in depth documentation, and a support ticket system. This resource is ideal for large Enterprises and supports multi-lingual configuration, organisational units, and LDAP integration.
Features:
Image versioning
User-driven rating system
Automatic generation of thumbnails and preview images
Rapid downloading of files in a range of formats
Search or browse by keywords and popularity
Monitor & control asset usage
Brand guidelines to provide consistent access to project/organization logos, colours, etc
Metadata batch edit
Date validation
Metadata import in XML or other delimited formats
configure and customize almost all aspects of the interface
Premium Features:
Document Editor Plug-in for desktop applications used to edit common file types (.doc, Photoshop & InDesign file formats)
Video Keywording module allows you to link keyword metadata to points of time in a video asset
Presentation Builder module maintains project presentation slides in Asset Bank, creates master presentation sets including slides that can be shared and reused
CONTENTdm is digital collection management software that allows for the upload, description, management, and access of digital collections. CONTENTdm is mostly used by libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, universities, corporations, historical societies, and other organizations that wish to host a digital collection.
Collection storage, management, and delivery to users across the web, in any format (e.g., local history archives, newspapers, books, maps, slide libraries, audio, video)
Integrated OCR capability for full-text searching
Support for complex media; import tools and wizards
Controlled vocabulary for consistent, uniform metadata entry
Standards support (e.g., Unicode, Z39.50, Qualified Dublin Core, VRA, XML, JPEG2000, OAI-PMH)
Collection metadata harvesting to WorldCat
Flexible and fully customizable; integration with OCLC products
Website configuration tools and hosting services
Advanced customizations can be made using the CONTENTdm API
Free, 60-day evaluation available by request. CONTENTdm offers multiple licensing options based on collection size.