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Digital Object Repository Software Quick Comparison
open sourceGUI (admin, ingest, export, and editing)Windows OSparse METSbatch uploadsformats supportedharvest capability
Greenstoneyesyes, yes, yes, yesyessort of
ContentDM no yes, sort of, yes, yesyes no OAI-PMH
Fedora Commonsyesyes, sort of, yes, sort ofyessort of OAI-PMH
DSpaceyes yes

Greenstone



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


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Fedora Commons


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


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.

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.

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