[Web4lib] ContentDM VS ? Comparison

[Stefan Boddie]

Hi Nancy,

You might also consider Greenstone (http://www.greenstone.org). I'm a  
little biased (I run a company specializing in Greenstone  
customization and support) so probably not the right person to give a  
balanced comparison between ContentDM and Greenstone, other than to  
say they offer similar functionality.

One significant difference is in the licensing of the two. Greenstone  
is open source and ContentDM is not, so the latter involves ongoing  
licensing costs.

Greenstone has been used to build everything from small image  
collections to large complex newspaper collections. For some examples  
of collections built with Greenstone take a look at http://www.dlconsulting.com/greenstone-services/projects 
  and http://www.greenstone.org/examples.

Kind regards,

Stefan Boddie
DL Consulting Ltd.
http://www.dlconsulting.com


On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Nancy Miller wrote:

> I'm from a small college library in Wyoming.  We are considering a CMS
> to manage our archival collection of WWII Heart Mountain Relocation  
> Camp
> images, plus other collections.  OCLC's ContentDM has been suggested  
> as
> a potential product.  How does this compare to other products that are
> being used?  Thumbnails and larger jpegs of our images are currently
> viewable on our web site.  We need a good way to search our  
> collections,
> thus a CMS system.  Thank you for all suggestions and words of wisdom.
>
>
>
> Nancy Miller
>
> Northwest College, Hinckley Library
>
> Powell, WY
>
> http://www.northwestcollege.edu/library/
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