@chalpin They'll all be in the general field of Caucasus history: I'm expecting both physical and digital items (for example there's someone who has a big sound archive who'd like to be included, and part of the project is getting a proper repository for digital papers/theses etc so there'll be PDFs to point to on that).

In my head search will need to be available by title/author/tag system. It's a sufficiently specific area that I'm not sure there's a good preexisting tag vocabulary available.

@JubalBarca Cool! What is your IT support situation like? Are you looking for a hosted service or did you want to self-host?

The research group I work for builds digital libraries / repositories that we run in our own LAMP environment. Our software is available at https://metavus.net/. Omeka (https://omeka.org/) and CollectiveAccess (https://www.collectiveaccess.org/) are other good options for that situation.

For a SaaS, maybe ContentDM (https://www.oclc.org/en/contentdm.html)?

@chalpin We can self-host, I think the Academy prefers to host in-house where possible. And we can get some IT support, probably enough for setup and occasional upgrades but maybe not enough for a lot of development work or very regular sysadmin babysitting.

Metavus looks like a pretty good option, thank you! I'll have a go at setting an instance of it up when I can work out how to get the IT people to give me a testing server. :)

(Also, SaaS?)