Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] DSpace: "digital" archive or "literature" archive?

2007-05-31 Thread Richard MAHONEY
Dear Derek, On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 00:20, Derek Hohls wrote: > I have recently installed and started looking at DSpace as a "digital" > repository. > > Background: > I work in a science research organisation. We are clustered into > hierarchical groups doing "similar" work, but this structure ch

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] DSpace: "digital" archive or "literature" archive?

2007-06-02 Thread Richard MAHONEY
Hello Derek, On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 21:38, Derek Hohls wrote: > Richard > > Thanks for sharing those ideas and thoughts. > I looked at the Nuxeo site, and also read through the technical > comparison by Richard Wyles - very interesting. I also looked the > Fedora case study implementation

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] DSpace: "digital" archive or "literature" archive?

2007-06-04 Thread MacKenzie Smith
Dear Derek, Richard, et al. I am occasionally amazed at the degree to which DSpace, after 5 years as an open source software project, is still talked about as if it were a vendor product... of course it has limitations... all software does, especially when it's five years old and actually getting

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] DSpace: "digital" archive or "literature" archive?

2007-06-04 Thread Derek Hohls
MacKenzie It was not my intention to create a "vendor tone" around DSpace; for what its worth I have had (and seen others having) similar kinds of discussions around other OSS on other mailing lists ... with no "adverse reactions". My intention was not to try and highlight any shortcomings or