The Document Management System Saros Mezzanine and the New Product AGORA as Key Component in a Digital Library Architecture at Göttingen University Library

Abstract

Current publications are more and more available in electronic form. Nevertheless there is still a clear predominance of printed material within library holdings. In order to facilitate online access to these information the Center for Digitization at Göttingen University Library was initiated as innovative service center for digitization work and techniques, financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Ministry of Culture of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. Setting up a Document-Management-System (DMS) as key component for the digital library architecture is one of the overall goals for the Center. Starting with Saros Mezzanine, a traditional EDMS for companies from FileNet, we present now, as result of a collaboration with the Satz-Rechen-Zentrum (SRZ) company in Berlin, a comfortable system named AGORA. The article gives a brief overview over development and functionality of the new DMS for digital libraries, AGORA.