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Dallan Quass  
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 More options Mar 12 2008, 9:24 pm
From: "Dallan Quass" <dal...@quass.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:24:01 -0500
Local: Wed, Mar 12 2008 9:24 pm
Subject: RE: [BeyondGen] Re: Family digital repositories
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I didn't spend much time with Fedora.  I did the initial selection about a
year ago so I'm a little fuzzy on why Fedora didn't make the final cut, but
I believe it was mainly because it didn't have as broad of a following as
Dspace or GreenStone.

Bottom line between Dspace and GreenStone: if you're building a personal
repository or if one person is going to be managing the respository
submissions, then GreenStone is probably the way to go.  It's very easy to
set up.  Dspace includes workflows and authorization, so you can restrict
who can submit to each collection, you can define collection administrators
who can approve, reject, or edit submissions before they become public, and
you can even restrict who can view each collection.  One of our goals is to
make this a free public repository for genealogical and family societies, so
I chose Dspace for the workflow and authorization features.  Fedora might
have been a fine choice as well, but Dspace had everything I needed, and I
figure with MIT and HP behind it, it's got a good chance of being
long-lived.

--dallan
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/User:Dallan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: beyondgen@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:beyondgen@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Hanks
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:15 AM
> To: beyondgen@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [BeyondGen] Re: Family digital repositories

> Hi Dallan,

> I'm curious to know if you looked at the Fedora digital
> library software (http://www.fedora-commons.org/) as well
> when evaluating which software to use.

> If so, what were your impressions of it? Where was it
> lacking, when compared to DSpace?

> Thanks for any thoughts,

> -- Dan

> On 3/5/08, Dallan Quass <dal...@quass.org> wrote:

> >  Hi Dan,

> >  Interesting that you bring up digital libraries.  Having a digital
> > library  for preserving digital artifacts and making them more
> > accessible to others  is a great idea.  I'm in the middle of
> > customizing DSpace right now, making  it work with Amazon S3 for
> > storage, putting it on MySQL instead of Postgres,  customizing the
> > metadata fields for genealogy, etc.  We'll be launching with  some
> > content from Africana Heritage soon.  The plan is to
> eventually open it  up to every user at WeRelate.

> >  I'm interested in volunteers if anyone would like to help
> out.  The
> > DSpace  software is written in Java and is open-source, and the
> > resulting digital  library will be free for anyone to use. (I'll
> > probably limit uploads to 1GB  / person.)  The main issue
> right now is
> > that the default screens are  functional but ugly.  Anyone who has
> > graphic, html, and/or css skills who  doesn't mind editing
> relatively
> > simple jsp pages would be greatly  appreciated!  Another area, less
> > urgent, is making it work with SOLR  
> (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/).  
> > DSpace currently uses lucene, but SOLR  has some nice
> features I think are worth taking advantage of.

> >  --dallan
> >  http://www.werelate.org/wiki/User:Dallan

> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >  > From: beyondgen@googlegroups.com
> >  > [mailto:beyondgen@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan
> Hanks  > Sent:
> > Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:13 PM  > To:
> beyondgen@googlegroups.com  >
> > Subject: [BeyondGen] Family digital repositories  >  >  >
> I've noticed
> > in the last few years a large accumulation of  > digital
> 'artifacts'
> > among my extended family members, from  > the explosion of digital
> > photographs, to scans of historical  > documents and so forth.

> >  > I'd love to see some way for all my family members to  >
> (easily)
> > upload and catalog such digital objects, essentially  > to create a
> > family digital repository, that any member of the  > family
> can add to
> > or update.

> >  > I'm aware of a number of digital library software
> projects  > out
> > there, like GreenStone and DSpace. In a sense, services  >
> like Flickr
> > are also digital repositories.

> >  > Are there any of these tools that you're aware of that lend  >
> > themselves well to this sort of thing?

> >  > Finding the right software for this is one problem, getting  >
> > family members to actually use such a system is another  > problem
> > altogether  > :-)  >  > -- Dan  >  > >


 
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