I have enjoyed the end product of all the repositories so far, however I would have to say that the user interface for Drupal is my least favorite. Dspace was at the top of my list until this week following the installation of Omeka. Omeka is by far the most superior in terms of the graphical interface, as well as in the flexibility of the configuration. Its presentation piece seems to suit my collection very well, especially since the collection consists of a variety of file types, including MOV, MP3, PDF & JPEG. I also appreciated the ease with which I could add metadata fields, as well as on the presentation side how easy it was to access and play my files, especially my film & music files.
I still appreciate Dspace and its communities and collections, however I believe that for my final project I will be utilizing Omeka. I appreciate JHOVE for all the technical metadata it revealed about my objects, and I liked the interface and searching capabilities of Eprints. I also loved harvesting Metadata by utilizing the base url and the OAI harvester.
To date this has been my most challenging semester, based in part on the advanced command line configuration we’ve had to do (and the subsequent troubleshooting that has had me pulling my hair out at times☺ , as well as the more challenging, analytical and critical management discussions that we’ve had this semester in evaluating larger federated repositories. I’m starting to see light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, and I’m really starting to think seriously about my capstone project.
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