Re: [OSCOM] Open source CMS / documents are content/

Seth Gottlieb wrote:
> I just found out this project called dspace (www.dspace.org, see article 
> at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html)
> 
> It is run out of MIT and was started with $1.8 MM grant from HP.
> 
> DSpace is BSD-style licensed although it seems to have a "file handle" 
> component (not required) which has a more restrictive license.
> 
> If look into it, I would love to compare notes.

DSpace, as far as I know is primarily geared towards exposing its 
content through the OAI-PMH metadata harvesting protocol 
(http://www.openarchives.com). It is mainly used by universities, as a 
repository for papers and publications. It allows webservices to harvest 
the metadata from one or more repositories, and for instance have a 
multi-repository search.

We've built an OAI extension to Silva for one of our customers who is 
using DSpace, (https://ep.eur.nl/ is the dspace server and 
http://eps.eur.nl is where the harvested and catalogued metadata is 
searchable through the extension we built.)

Again, as far as I know, dspace is not often used for presenting its 
content directly to the public.

Hope this is somewhat informative,

eric casteleijn