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Thursday, March 05, 2009

New repository software from U. Rochester

The University of Rochester has released an alpha version of its new repository software, irplus. From the announcement:

... It contains the following features:

  • Personal authoring work space
  • Collaborative authoring and versioning
  • Publishing
  • Publication Versioning
  • Faceted searching
  • Researcher pages
  • Statistics ...

You can visit our test system which has over 6,000 loaded items from our existing repository system. ...

The software was developed during a two year grant from the IMLS foundation. During the grant period the university applied its user centered design approach to design a repository for not only today’s users but also the next generation of academics. ...

See also our past posts on the study that led to the development of this software.