Hi Steve, I'm not a dspace expert, i'll speak to drupal - if you're looking at drupal 7 you may be shortchanged in terms of library tools, at least for the next few months as the stable releases of stuff like oai-pmh get ported. Drupal 6 on the other hand has a lot of tools for this and i recommend drupal4lib mailing list to get more info there http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/drupal4lib.html
You might also look at islandora http://islandora.ca/ which merges drupal and fedora (although i'm not certain that it's really necessary). Ultimately the archivalness of the software has been related to the usage of stuff like persistent urls, universal id's and the availability of archival metadata standards such as dublin core, met/mods etc... all of which are handled fairly well in drupal. if you already have drupal developers in house you may well find advantages in drupal as most of the technical aspects are rather moot at this point. I will say that drupal's content import process is a probably a lot more powerful and intuitive than dspace's and handles relational data incredibly well - way beyond just a standard csv import. So if you have legacy data in relational formats you're going to be really glad you went with drupal, whereas if it's all flat data it doesn't matter. as far as permissions go i think they're both fairly equivalent ap On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Steve Raisz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi,**** > > ** ** > > I am working with a nonprofit publisher that is interested in creating a > repository of its digital assets. Some of the assets would be open to the > public and some would be only for the staff of the publishing organization. > **** > > ** ** > > They currently have in-house staff handling a variety of Drupal based > websites.**** > > ** ** > > Could anyone on this list help us understand the pros and cons of creating > our repository with Drupal as opposed to Dspace?**** > > ** ** > > Yours,**** > > Steve Raisz**** > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model > configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and > the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free > download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general > > -- ------------------- ansondparker (skype) ansondparker (crossloop.com) Rock on
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