Abstract
In 2012, the Digital Preservation Team at Rochester Institute of Technology's The Wallace Center undertook an assessment of its Institutional Repository, the Digital Media Library. The Digital Preservation Team looked at the repository's current performance and requirements for ensuring its future success, and then examined four different philosophical approaches to configuring an IR that are in use by research institutions today: All-in-one, Archival, Researcher-centric and Subject. The team also compared open source vs. in-house repository providers and services including DSpace, Digital Commons, IR+, and Discovery Garden. A decision was made to move from the open source software DSpace to the full-service hosted software bepress from Digital Commons. The new repository will have a narrower research focus and will be rebranded RIT Scholar Works. It will be launched in fall of 2013. This article describes the configuration approaches that were considered and how each approach would impact the Digital Media Library, leading to the final recommendation.
Publication Date
7-2013
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
The Wallace Center
Recommended Citation
Younglove, April, "Rethinking the Digital Media Library for RIT's The Wallace Center" (2013). D-Lib Magazine, Volume 19 (Number 7/8),Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/article/1756
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
