Hi J,
DSpace can nest collections, these are called "communities". These can
go as many levels deep as needed. So for instance we have content
organized by institution, then department, etc. The same item can be
in multiple collections.
An item itself is flat. My understanding is that items can
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Thanks Susanna.
There are particular concerns that make us hesitate between Dspace and
Fedora.
First, many of our projects have a very specific data structure: one can
not separate data from metadata, there is no associated media : eg,
bibliographic records, film catalogs.
In addition,
Hello J,
there is an optimal solution to exploit all advantages of DSpace while also
fulfilling more complex need such as those you mentioned, from implementing
a variety of metadata standards and semantic web compliancy, to enhanced
seaching and navigating features, assign DOIs, performing OCR
Hello Tim,
Thank you very much for this detailed presentation ! And thanks to
Christian for his advice.
In our case, we have considered Islandora because we have a lot of projects
under Drupal. But something bothers me: Islandora runs with rather old
versions of Drupal (7.x) and Fedora (3.x),
Hello J,
It's hard to make broad comparisons between DSpace and Fedora as the
systems are so very different in nature. And which system you use should
likely be heavily based on your local needs, expertise, and goals.
Fedora is a highly flexible data storage architecture/platform, with native
Hello,
my feeling is that solutions can easily be too big and powerful. See how many
really large institutions rely on DSpace.
If one day you feel that you have grown out of DSpace and you have longterm
workforce available to learn to develop on a platform like Fedora, then
migration from
Hello
I am trying to determine what would be the right research data management
solution for my institution. There are comparison grids on the internet but
they are often outdated.
The data will be in tens of Gos of all types, including office or pdf files
as well as low and high resolution
