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

Thanks Eric,

This is very helpful.  I have been examining DSpace for a client that is 
looking for an open source collaborative workspace solution.  Their 
requirements are based on some of the principals having used IntraSpect 
(which was acquired by Vignette) in prior lives.  ERoom (now owned by 
Documentum owned by EMC) is another possibility.  The metadata focus of 
DSpace might be a little heavy for them.  The Zope based projects (Plone 
and Silva) seem very appropriate but they have a Java bias.  Thoughts?

--Seth

Eric Casteleijn wrote:
> 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
> 

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