[Midas] looking into MIDAS for Old Dominion's Data Management Plan... questions vs MIT DSpace and others

[Audette, Michel A.]

Hi Patrick, 

thanks for your kind response. I'll have a discussion with my collaborators about your specific indications about DSpace. I guess we'll put the same question to the MIT support people. 

Warm wishes,

Michel


Michel Audette, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,
Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, VA.
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 2:13 PM
To: Audette, Michel A.
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Subject: Re: [Midas] looking into MIDAS for Old Dominion's Data Management Plan... questions vs MIT DSpace and others

Michel,

It's good to hear from you :). I've responded inline.

Thanks,
Patrick Reynolds
Technical Leader
Kitware, Inc.
919 869 8848

On Jun 22, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Audette, Michel A. wrote:

Dear Midas users,

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.

Can anyone comment on
1) how these competing options compare to each other, i.e. pros and cons of each?

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.

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?)?

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.


Thanks for your kind consideration.

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.


Best wishes,

Michel Audette, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,
Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, VA.
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