>>> Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/26/07 12:10 PM >>> On 26-Jul-07, at 10:52 AM, Vikas Rawal wrote: <snip> >actually i had never heard of invenio. I had compared dspace, >railroad and greenstone. Railroad is dead, greenstone not mature >enough and I had good reports about dspace. Only the java thing was >putting me off. I now see invenio uses python - so i think i will try <snip>
I tried both dspace and greenstone. in my youth. Now that I'm older and wiser....heres what I had learnt before discarding both. Dspace is more suited for *sharing* original collections with the rest of the world. I had pdf/doc/etc/ manuscripts - largely reference material that I required to access quickly but of which I was not really the copyright owner, and there was a long lag while uploading, as each document gets a unique ID. This, however, may have been an artefact of not choosing the correct option. Greenstone was more suitable. It would take documents as pdf or doc or txt or whatever, and do a commendable ocr based index, making them searchable. Retrieval was also easy. The problem with a departmental server, was that uploading manuscripts required administrator privileges, and the sub-division into collections prevented single search operations through the database. I will set it up again. Maybe we can have a comparison of various other digital library software at the next ILUGD meet. ?? :) Andrew _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
