contentdm vs dspace vs fedora ralph levan oclc research
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CONTENTdm vs CONTENTdm vs DSpace vs FedoraDSpace vs Fedora
Ralph LeVan
OCLC Research
Data SupportData Support
Arbitrary Bitstreams?
Arbitrarily Complex Objects?
Versioning?
Local Metadata Elements?
Preservation Metadata?
Batch Input?
Rich Metadata Searching?
Full-text Searching?
Arbitrary Bitstreams?Arbitrary Bitstreams?
CONTENTdm– yes
DSpace– yes
Fedora– yes
Arbitrarily Complex Arbitrarily Complex Objects?Objects?
CONTENTdm– yes
DSpace– yes
Fedora– yes
Versioning?Versioning?
CONTENTdm– no
DSpace– no
Fedora– yes
Local Metadata Local Metadata Elements?Elements?
CONTENTdm– yes
DSpace– yes, but they can’t be searched
Fedora– no
Preservation Preservation Metadata?Metadata?
CONTENTdm– no
DSpace– yes
Fedora– yes
Batch Input?Batch Input?
CONTENTdm– yes?
DSpace– yes
Fedora– yes
Rich Metadata Rich Metadata Searching?Searching?
CONTENTdm– yes
DSpace– yes, but only on a few fields
Fedora– yes, but only on a couple of fields
Full-text Searching?Full-text Searching?
CONTENTdm– yes, by moving the content into the
metadata
DSpace– yes, through Google (in development)
Fedora– no
User SupportUser Support
User Roles With Privileges?
Workflows?
Object Marshalling?
Arbitrary Bitstream Retrieval?
Arbitrary Object Retrieval?
Web Interface?
Content Easily Integrated Into Web Pages?
User Roles With User Roles With Privileges?Privileges?
CONTENTdm– User permissions on directories
DSpace– yes
Fedora– no
Mediated Workflows?Mediated Workflows?
CONTENTdm– no, but they have a three step commit
DSpace– yes
Fedora– no
Object Marshalling?Object Marshalling?
CONTENTdm– yes
DSpace– yes
Fedora– no
Arbitrary Bitstream Arbitrary Bitstream Retrieval?Retrieval?
CONTENTdm– Only file types recognized by the browser
DSpace– Only file types recognized by the browser
Fedora– Only file types recognized by the browser
Arbitrary Object Arbitrary Object Retrieval?Retrieval?
CONTENTdm– Only types defined by CONTENTdm (books,
postcards, CDs, etc.)
DSpace– Web pages only
Fedora– yes
Web Interface?Web Interface?
CONTENTdm– yes
DSpace– yes
Fedora– no
Content Easily Content Easily Integrated Into Web Integrated Into Web Pages?Pages?
CONTENTdm– yes
DSpace– no
Fedora– possible
Miscellaneous Miscellaneous InfrastructureInfrastructure
OAI-PMH?
Z39.50/SRW?
Open Source?
Open API’s?
Cross-Repository Searching?
OAI-PMH?OAI-PMH?
CONTENTdm– yes
DSpace– yes
Fedora– yes
Z39.50/SRW?Z39.50/SRW?
CONTENTdm– Z39.50 can be added
DSpace– SRW can be added
Fedora– no
Open Source?Open Source?
CONTENTdm– no
DSpace– yes
Fedora– yes
Open API’s?Open API’s?
CONTENTdm– By license
DSpace– SRW for searching
Fedora– Yes
Cross-Repository Cross-Repository Searching?Searching?
CONTENTdm– Yes
DSpace– No
Fedora– No
Data SupportData Support
CONTENTdm DSpace Fedora
Arbitrary Bitstreams? ● ● ●
Arbitrarily Complex Objects? ● ● ●
Versioning? ●
Local Metadata Elements? ● ●
Preservation Metadata? ● ●
Batch Input? ● ● ●
Rich Metadata Searching? ● ○ ○
Full-text Searching? ● ○
● = Yes ○ = Qualified Yes● = Yes ○ = Qualified Yes
User SupportUser Support
CONTENTdm DSpace Fedora
User Roles With Privileges? ○ ●
Workflows? ●
Object Marshalling? ● ●
Arbitrary Bitstream Retrieval? ○ ○ ○
Arbitrary Object Retrieval? ●
Web Interface? ● ●
Content Easily Integrated Into Web Pages? ● ○
● = Yes ○ = Qualified Yes● = Yes ○ = Qualified Yes
Miscellaneous Miscellaneous InfrastructureInfrastructure
CONTENTdm DSpace Fedora
OAI-PMH? ● ● ●
Z39.50/SRW? ● ●
Open Source? ● ●
Open API’s? ○ ●
Cross-Repository Searching? ●
● = Yes ○ = Qualified Yes● = Yes ○ = Qualified Yes
Prioritized List Of New Prioritized List Of New FeaturesFeatures
1. Preservation Plan
2. Open Rendering Scheme
3. Open API’s
4. Workflow and User Roles
5. Versioning