Hello Derek, On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 21:38, Derek Hohls wrote: > Richard > > Thanks for sharing those ideas and thoughts.
> I looked at the Nuxeo site, and also read through the technical > comparison by Richard Wyles - very interesting. I also looked the > Fedora case study implementation by Richard Green > In summary, I have gathered that: > * DSpace is less technically capable, does not scale as well, does not > handle complex objects or variety of objects, or mass-uploading of > data, but has an easy and simple front-end for users and > administrators. There is also a wealth of start-up material and a good > community. > * Fedora is more technically capable, scales well (within our likely > limits at least), seems to handle complex objects with a variety of > data types - MIME- based. There is no front-end that works on the > web; and the Java interface that is supplied looks absolutely > barebones at best. The concepts and ideas of Fedora also seem quite > complex and are not clearly explained in the starting documentation. > User docs and tutorials seem minimal. Community support is unknown. > Richard Green's case study says: "Fedora 'out of the box' was a > software tool with an associated very steep learning curve and a user > had to rely heavily on documentation available on the Fedora > website... we came to realise that the documentation appeared to lack > some crucial elements and that, for a first time user, it was sometimes > not easy to follow." > This leaves us in a difficult position between two choices; > (a) to hold off and hope for Fedora to significantly improve the front > end and user documentation... which might be problematic as its not > clear how there funding will continue after September this year > (2007), and there is no project roadmap, so its not that clear as to > what they will actually focus on. > (b) to go on with DSpace, and acknowledge that its a temporary solution > which may not adequately address many of our use cases (although still > a step up from holding all research data on local drives or on a DMS). > if we later decide to switch to Fedora, I hope it would be possible to > extract the content out for the new system. DSpace says: > > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//EndUserFaq#Can_I_export_my_digital_material_out_of_DSpace.3F > > this is possible.... Another option -- which I forgot to mention -- may be MyCoRe, at least once the interface and documentation are available in English (anticipated): About MyCoRe: http://www.mycore.de/content/main/information.xml Features: http://www.mycore.de/content/main/information/description.xml Applications (Deployments): http://www.mycore.de/content/main/anwendungen.xml MyCoRe Documentation: http://www.mycore.de/content/main/documentation.xml Note the commitment to support enterprise grade databases, support for audio and video streaming, and an Z39.50 interface. Best regards, Richard Mahoney -- Richard MAHONEY | internet: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/ Littledene | telephone/telefax (man.): +64 3 312 1699 Bay Road | cellular: +64 27 482 9986 OXFORD, NZ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Indica et Buddhica: Materials for Indology and Buddhology Repositorium: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/repositorium/ Philologica: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/philologica/ Subscriptions: http://subscriptions.indica-et-buddhica.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech