Hi Carl, Again, most of this information can be found in DSpace Documentation: http://www.dspace.org/1_6_2Documentation/
Very brief answers follow -- please look to the Documentation for additional details, or send us some more detailed questions which better explain what you are looking to understand. On 11/2/2010 3:02 PM, Carl Andersson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I wonder if DSpace can do the following? > > > Generate user-package (DIP) Administrators can export packages (zip files). Users can download files, and could download Zips if they are stored in Items. > Controlling storage: write to arbitrary storage medium / architecture - > even in multiple copies DSpace allows you to store files on anything that looks like a Filesystem. So, what that storage architecture is doesn't matter, as long as it looks like a Filesystem to DSpace. > Give overview of the stored archive packages I'm not sure what you mean by an "overview"? DSpace provides basic report stats on how many items are in the archive, and how many files. > Produce reports on operations and on the stored packages DSpace can produce statistical reports on views of contents. Each item also logs its own basic Provenance information in the metadata. > Be able to manage PREMIS and METS - update events in PREMIS DSpace metadata is stored in a Qualified Dublin Core format. Although you can export/import metadata via METS/PREMIS, it is not stored as such in DSpace. > Support the generating of files I don't understand what this means? What sort of files? You can import/export files. DSpace can also full-text index many major file formats. It can also generate thumbnails for most image formats. > Identify metadata, etc. to a package (link between loaded metadata and > archive package in the system, find it in the enclosed SIP) Any SIPs imported into DSpace are automatically opened up. The metadata is always extracted and saved to the DSpace database. The files are always extracted and saved to the filesystem (and linked to the corresponding metadata in the database). > Define different types of users with different rights Yes. DSpace supports different users with different rights. Some example rights are Submitters, Workflow Approvers, Community/Collection/System Administrators. > Multi users support Yes. DSpace supports many users. > Able to handle a large number of files DSpace can handle a large number of files. Though as your number of files increases, the system may slow down if you do not have enough memory & processing power allocated. This has been reported in some cases when storing millions of files. However, we are currently working to improve performance of DSpace to avoid these issues. > Able to handle large tar package DSpace does not ingest tar packages by default. Though it will accept Zip files, and many other SIPs. > Generate statistics on packages / users DSpace does generate basic usage/download/access statistics. > Ability to give an overview of the archive contents (such as file formats) I've heard of some third party tools that people have built to help with this. Currently, there is no tool that exists in out-of-the-box DSpace to detail all file formats in the archive, but hopefully someone can help us build one. > Manage archive format and making-available-formats I don't understand what you mean by this. DSpace doesn't have a single archive format (metadata is always stored in Database, and files on the filesystem). Perhaps you can explain? Hopefully this helps. Again, Carl, many of these questions were a bit difficult to answer as I don't fully understand the context behind this list. I'd also encourage you to read the DSpace documentation for further details: http://www.dspace.org/1_6_2Documentation/ - Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
