Greetings --
We are finally working on putting together a proper ERMS.
Our internal
structure is consortium-like, with member institutions able
to buy into
our resources; so although we are a Serials Solutions
client, it seems
their system is not capable of handling this. I know from
experience
that we've had to stretch the custom-name fields in the user
display to
indicate which members have access to which resources.
We are following the DLF ERM report closely, at least in
designing the
database, which is where we're at now. My questions:
firstly, are there
any other such projects going on out there? I've looked at
the HERMES
webpage [http://her
mes.mse.jhu.edu:8008/hermesdocs/] which was helpful,
but it seems that they stopped releasing code with 0.1 who
knows how
long ago. The DLF report itself refers to that project. My
pokings-around haven't yielded any recent open-source/other
homegrown
projects informed by their initiative.
Secondly: would anyone out there be potentially interested
in using our
ERMS if we would end up releasing it as open-source?
(FreERMS[tm]?) Up
until now we have been steering towards a
implementation-specific
database design, omitting parts of the DLF report prototype,
but if
others are interested, perhaps it makes sense to extend it
to include
other elements.
Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
--
Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
Fax (212) 627-3197
yitzchas touro.edu
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