NELINET's Technology Sandbox
The NELINET Technology Sandbox is a place for our members to try out new library technologies with an eye to evaluating them for installation or purchase. The following applications are available to NELINET members for testing or demonstration. Some of these applications are available through a special partnership NELINET has with PALINET. Our latest installations include both open-source and fee-based software for you to test before investing staff and resources at your institution.
Note: Some of these applications need configuration or data migration to test effectively. We will create sample configurations and load data as time permits. Check the status notes for the current state of the application.
Note: You will need a user account to try these resources. For more information, please contact Kathy Ramsey at ramsey@nelinet.net.
DSpace
[DSpace Forum]DSpace, originally developed by MIT and HP, is one of the leading solutions for organizing and mounting digital objects on the web. While designed with Institutional Repositories in mind, DSpace has sufficient flexibility to contain many different sorts of collections. You can find a working instance at the NELINET Digital Repository Testbed
Evergreen
Evergreen is an open-source Integrated Library System, developed by programmers at the Georgia Library Service. With an active development community, Evergreen is already in heavy use by the Georgia Library PINES consortium and is currently being evaluated by a number of other organizations. Both OPAC and staff functions are available.
PKP Harvester2
[Harvester2 Forum]A product of The Public Knowledge Project Harvester2 is the engine that currently drives New England Collections Online
Koha Zoom
in cooperation with Palinet"Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe."
Note: You will need a user account to try these resources. For more information, please contact Kathy Ramsey at ramsey@nelinet.net.
MediaWiki
[MediaWiki Forum]Wikis are one of the easiest ways for groups of people to collaboratively create and edit documents. MediaWiki is a venerable open-source wiki platform, running Wikipedia as well as many thousands of other wikis.
Moodle
in cooperation with Palinet"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities."
Note: You will need a user account to try these resources. For more information, please contact Kathy Ramsey at ramsey@nelinet.net.
TDNet Federated Search Project
[TDNet Forum]This is a test instance of TDNet's Search Analyzer, a solution for federated searching across external and internal resources, for abstracting, categorizing and analysis of retrieved items.
For more information contact Ronna Archbold at ronna@tdnet.teldan.com.
WordPress
[Wordpress Forum]WordPress is perhaps the premiere blog platform available, and it happens to be open source as well. WordPress allows for multiple users with varying levels of authorization, making it easy to control who can edit different portions of a blog. It automatically generates RSS feeds, supports podcasts and other media enclosures, and allows you to change the look and feel of your blog with pre-made templates.
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