On 3/10/2011 12:56 PM, chrisc@catalyst.net.nz wrote:
Certainly some people will tell you that Koha will work, but DSpace is much much better IMHO.
Koha is not designed to work as a digitial repository. You could bend it to make it do that, but you'd be much better off using a digital repository like dspace, fedora or my personal favourite kete (http://kete.net.nz). Kete plays very nicely with Koha, and is another project started by Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications.
Chris
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Well I am no expert but we use Koha to host our "digital branch". We have alot of holding that are historic and fragile so we created digital iteration and set them up as a virtual branch. The url link to a jpeg copy of our tiffs that live on a RAD server. We also load them into a Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/buttepubliclibrary/> account which has increased discoverability and drives traffic back to our library where more images and info are available. We really like this because it gives users and searchers more info and access for their time. Here is a link to our digital branch <http://catalogue.buttepubliclibrary.info/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=kw&op=and&idx=kw&op=and&idx=kw&limit=branch%3ADigital&sort_by=relevance&do=Search> and ourweb page <http://www.buttepubliclibrary.info/>. We also upload jpeg of our images to the Montana Memory Project <http://cdm103401.cdmhost.com/cdm4/browse.php> which is catalogued in Dublin Core. These records are loaded into World Cat which also increases discoverability. I don't know if this is what you have in mind but it works well for us, mainly because we control our TIFFs and originals, which is very important to us. My February post on my blog <http://leephillips2.wordpress.com/> also talks about how we are going to use Koha to catalog a local museum's images. So hope that helps. I think Koha works great for our digital projects. Lee Phillips Library Director Butte, MT