<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Michel,</div><div><br></div><div>It's good to hear from you :). I've responded inline.</div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jun 22, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Audette, Michel A. wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear Midas users, <br><br>I am a former Kitware employee, now at Old Dominion University, and I've been asked to take part in a committee to come up with a Data Management Plan, in compliance with requirements for NSF and NIH proposals. We are looking at a number of competing solutions, all of them apparenty open-source: MIDAS, MIT's DSpace, and Fedora Commons. <br><br>Can anyone comment on<br>1) how these competing options compare to each other, i.e. pros and cons of each?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not terribly familiar with Fedora Commons, but I can comment on Midas vs DSpace. DSpace, as far as I know it is primarily geared to storing published works (books, journal articles, etc.) where Midas aims to be a more general solution to the problem of data sharing and publication. An interesting bit of history is that the original Midas 1.X series was based on DSpace. We still have a lot of similar internal data structures, but our goals and external interfaces have diverged.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>2) in the event that these competing options have different strengths, is it possible to exploit two or more, and exploit their complementarity (i.e.: are these solutions inter-operable?)?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On this I'm not sure about Fedora Commons or DSpace, but I can say that Midas has a fully-featured RESTful web API that should allow interoperation with virtually any system.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Thanks for your kind consideration. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Michel Audette, Ph.D. <br>Assistant Professor,<br>Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,<br>Old Dominion University,<br>Norfolk, VA. <br>_______________________________________________<br>Midas mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Midas@public.kitware.com">Midas@public.kitware.com</a><br>http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/midas<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>