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