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NERCOMP: Institutional Repositories: How are They Evolving
http://www.nercomp.org/sigs/0506/092605ContentRepos/ContentSched.html
Sept. 26, 2006
Speakers discussed five digital repository experiences/tools:
* ContentDM at Mt. Holyoke
* DigitalCommons at UConn
* DigiTools at Brandeis
* dSpace at Harvard Science Libraries
* Fedora at Tufts
Some overall conclusions:
* Institutional is correct: for the most part the collections grew from small funded projects where the emphasis was on local creation and access. Though the results are on the web there is little regard for connections to other institutions’ collections, cross-collection access, or tie ins to other possibilities.
* Repositories is also correct: most collections were built as a storage facility for individual objects. Search within a collection, find an object, look at an object. Very little concern about connections between multiple objects within or without the collection. Some OAI implementation but the model was very bricks-and-mortar library-like.

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Everton’s Home Page – Genealogy, Family History Research
According to one blog, this organization gives you subscriber access to Accessible Archives for less than AA does itself, plus you get geneology info. Not bad.