[Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

[Twaha Daudi]

Hi alll,
  Good day!.
  I would like to know which is the best between Dspace and Greenstone in terms 
of
  easy to install and configure,learning curve,performance and usability in 
Library.
  Thank you for your help
  udd

   
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Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

[Dorothea Salo]

On 7/13/07, Twaha Daudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi alll,
> Good day!.
> I would like to know which is the best between Dspace and Greenstone in
> terms of
> easy to install and configure,learning curve,performance and usability in
> Library.
> Thank you for your help

This is not an answerable question as stated. Before we can answer it,
we need to know what kind of materials you have and what you need to
do with them.

DSpace and Greenstone have significantly different goals; without
knowing your goals, we cannot usefully help you compare the two
packages.

Dorothea

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Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

[George Kozak]

Twaha:

We at Cornell University use both DSpace and Greenstone, but for different 
purposes.  DSpace is our institutional repository where we store videos, 
presentations, papers and books.  Greenstone is used as a Newspaper archive 
for our Campus Newspaper.  So, they are used very differently.


At 11:03 AM 7/13/2007, Twaha Daudi wrote:

Hi alll,
Good day!.
I would like to know which is the best between Dspace and Greenstone in 
terms of
easy to install and configure,learning curve,performance and usability in 
Library.

Thank you for your help
udd


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Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

[Twaha Daudi]

Hi Dorothea,
Thanks for your reply.
Sorry for not making it clear.My institutions is looking for free digital 
library software.The intention is to digitize the existing printed materials 
and make them available online.Iam not expert on this type of software.hope I 
have tried to make it clear.
Thanks again for your help.
udd

Dorothea Salo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/13/07, Twaha Daudi  wrote:
> Hi alll,
> Good day!.
> I would like to know which is the best between Dspace and Greenstone in
> terms of
> easy to install and configure,learning curve,performance and usability in
> Library.
> Thank you for your help

This is not an answerable question as stated. Before we can answer it,
we need to know what kind of materials you have and what you need to
do with them.

DSpace and Greenstone have significantly different goals; without
knowing your goals, we cannot usefully help you compare the two
packages.

Dorothea

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University of Wisconsin
Rm 218, Memorial Library
(608) 262-5493

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Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

[Dorothea Salo]

On 7/14/07, Twaha Daudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dorothea,
> Thanks for your reply.
> Sorry for not making it clear.My institutions is looking for free digital
> library software.The intention is to digitize the existing printed materials
> and make them available online.

Either DSpace or Greenstone would be an acceptable choice for this use.

DSpace is somewhat better on document preservation; Greenstone has
advantages in end-user usability and flexibility.

I would recommend trying both; it is possible to crosswalk items
between them, so time spent ingesting material into one will not be
lost.

Dorothea

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Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

[Eduardo Trápani]

> I would recommend trying both; it is possible to crosswalk items
> between them, so time spent ingesting material into one will not be
> lost.

I would also recomment that.  But a year ago moving items from one greenstone 
to dspace was so complicated for some items that we had to recreate almost from 
scratch.

So, if you try both, don't let your collections grow too big/complicated before 
you make the decision.

Eduardo.


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