Hi Jacob, Just some quick thoughts (may not be up to date): - Greenstone is easy to install and use. Had sparse support for standards when I used them. Uses proprietary db. Indexing takes lot of time. Difficult to scale. USP: Ease of use.
- Fedora is built to support latest standards. Great architecture. Complicated installation. Lack of good front-end tools. Needs lot of end-user customization. Commercial tools from companies like VTLS (vtls.com) such as VITAL, VALET (open source submission tool) can make it more useful. Fedora is more of a components based tools to be used as building blocks of a system rather than a system in itself. My I recommend DSpace (dspace.org)? It has quite a strong community and is backup by the likes of MIT and HP. Has nice front-end as well as easy to customize and maintain. Built on open source tools (tomcat, postgres). Good support of standards as well. Slightly difficult to install. But you can request for installer (shell script) in the DLRG* mailing list. Hope this helps. * http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/dlrg Regards, Saiful On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jacobs, Jane W < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this is a little off topic, but I was wondering if anyone in the > group has used or is using either Greenstone or Fedora for creating a > digital library. If anyone is willing to correspond with me privately, > I will appreciate your help. I am interested in batch import and export > of metadata from either system. > > > Thanks in advance and apologies for tangential content. > > > JJ > > > > **Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of > the Queens Library.** > > Jane Jacobs > Asst. Coord., Catalog Division > Queens Borough Public Library > 89-11 Merrick Blvd. > Jamaica, NY 11432 > tel.: (718) 990-0804 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FAX. (718) 990-8566 > > > > > > The information contained in this message may be privileged and > confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is > not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for > delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is > strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, > please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from > your computer. -- Saiful Amin +91 9343826438
