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Table of Contents [Hide/Show] Greenstone    News, reviews, and articles about Greenstone CONTENTdm    News, reviews, and articles about CONTENTdm Fedora Commons    Capcity    Interface/ease of use    Access to contect    Security/stability issues    News, reviews, and articles about Fedora Commons DSpace    News, Reviews and articles about DSpace General works about Digital Repositories

Digital Object Repository Software Quick Comparison

	open source	GUI (admin, ingest, export, and editing)	Windows OS	parse METS	batch uploads	formats supported	harvest capability
Greenstone	yes	yes, yes, yes, yes	yes	sort of
ContentDM	no	yes, sort of, yes, yes	yes	no			OAI-PMH
Fedora Commons	yes	yes, sort of, yes, sort of	yes	sort of			OAI-PMH
DSpace	yes		yes

Greenstone¶

• website: http://www.greenstone.org/
  

• spec sheet
  

• How to build a digital collection Most irritating ebook ever, available through UW Libraries. It is basically the how-to manual for greenstone.
  I failed to find much substance here.
  

News, reviews, and articles about Greenstone¶

1. Bainbridge, D., Osborn, W., Witten, I.H. & Nichols, D.M. (2006). Extending Greenstone for Institutional Repositories. In Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities, 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-30, 2006(pp. 303-312). Berlin: Springer. Abstract: We examine the problem of designing a generalized system for building institutional repositories. Widely used schemes such as DSpace are tailored to a particular set of requirements: fixed metadata set; standard view when searching and browsing; pre-determined sequence for depositing items; built-in workflow for vetting new items. In contrast, Fedora builds in flexibility: institutional repositories are just one possible instantiation—however generality incurs a high overhead and uptake has been sluggish. This paper shows how existing components of the Greenstone software can be repurposed to provide a generalized institutional repository that falls between these extremes.
   

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CONTENTdm¶

• website: http://www.contentdm.org/
  

• spec sheet:
  

News, reviews, and articles about CONTENTdm¶

1. Reese and Banerjee, 2008 p. 60-69: CONTENTdm was designed to provided access to static images. It assumes that a librarian will be managing the collection and staff commitment to managing metadata is assumed. CONTENTdm allows for more granular control than DSpace. As of 2008 DSpace was not recommended by authors for management of serials (managing resources based on publication patterns). CONTENTdm has OCR and may be reasonably well suited for scanned books, newspapers, etc.
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2. Arlitsch, K., & Jonsson, J. (2005). Aggregating distributed digital collections in the Mountain West Digital Library with the CONTENTdmTM multi-site server. Library Hi Tech. 23 (2), 220-232.
   

Fedora Commons¶

• website: http://www.fedora-commons.org/
• spec sheet
• Features
• Batch processing page
  

Capcity¶

"Store all types of content and its metadata," " Digital content of any type can be managed and maintained," Metadata about content in any format can be managed and maintained," "Scale to millions of objects,"

Interface/ease of use¶

"Metadata about content in any format can be managed and maintained" "Web-based Administrator GUI (low-level object editing)"

Access to contect¶

"Access data via Web APIs (REST/SOAP)," "Provide RDF search (SPARQL)" "Content Model Architecture (define "types" of objects by their content)" " GSearch (fulltext) Search Service" "Multiple, customer driven front-ends."

Security/stability issues¶

"Rebuilder Utility (for disaster recovery and data migration)," "The entire repository can be rebuilt from the digital object and content files." " JMS messaging (your apps can "listen" to repository events)"

"OAI-PMH Provider Service"

News, reviews, and articles about Fedora Commons¶

1. Moore Foundation funding, 2007
2. Discussion of DSpace/Fedora merger, 2009
3. From Reese and Banerjee, 2008, p. 60: Fedora's advantages are that it is very flexible (Fedora may interact with any application that can interact with SOAP messages), it is OAI compliant and can act as a "meta repository" that provides access to content maintained by others. It's disadvantage is that it requires technical knowledge to operate effectively; authors recommend this system only if content is complex.
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DSpace¶

• website:http://www.dspace.org/
• spec sheet
  

News, Reviews and articles about DSpace¶

1. Reese and Banerjee, 2008, 60-69. Authors point out that DSpace was conceived of as a way for researchers to self-publish and manage their articles. This system is designed so that contributors are largely responsible for the content and organization of information in DSpace, and that the system is designed to support research papers and data more than images, video, etc. Also, as of 2008 DSpace was not well suited for managing serials.
   

General works about Digital Repositories¶

1. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Volume 47 Issue 3 & 4 2009, Special issue on Metadata and Open Access Repositories
2. Reese, T., & Banerjee, K. (2008). Building digital libraries: A how-to-do-it manual. New York: Neal-Schuman.
3. Rhyno, A. (2003). Using open source systems for digital libraries. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited.
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