management >> archival software

by jay m » Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:13:35 GMT

Anyone looking at D-Space?
http://dspace.org/

Regards
Jay


management >> archival software

by rwoodson » Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:48:55 GMT



Jay

What do you want to know? We are running it at a client site. It's
free, Open Source, can use MySQL or PostgresSql as a database, can do
Dublin Core, and will allow OAI harvesting.

It is not very robust, but works OK for this small application.

management >> archival software

by jay m » Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:09:51 GMT

Hi, Russ
I see the term "robust" in a lot of contexts-
What do you mean?
Jay

management >> archival software

by rwoodson » Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:12:15 GMT

Robust is one of those catch word terms. In this case it means that it
can not do a lot of different things. In the case of D-Space, it is an
OK document management system, but does not have a lot of bells and
whistles. It does not have workflow, signatures or extensive metadata
fields.

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management >> archival software

by jay m » Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:21:35 GMT

Thanks-
Maybe it's my equipment/vehicle/engineering background, but I tend to
think of "robust" as meaning "strong, tolerant of abuse".
It is strange that we don't have a more robust
(complete/concise/descriptive) set of terms to describe software
feature sets and capabilities.
cheers!
Jay