Wow... after a good week with Drupal, I'm feeling a little disappointed with DSpace. The installation went fine - as usual, the directions were clear and I had no issues. Now, could I have figured the installation out on my own? Certainly not. I recognized many of the commands and could follow what was going on about 85-90% of the time, but no way I could have completed the install without help from a systems specialist. Basic steps I get, but others - like editing files - leave me bewildered. Just not confident I would have ever known to do that on my own...
Drupal I found fairly easy to use and manipulate. DSpace seems much less user friendly. Many of the tutorial instructions seem more complex than I expected, and it looks like some require more code than Drupal. I haven't fooled with "look and feel" yet, but I'm already wondering if Drupal is more focused on presentation, and DSpace more about content. I also prefer how Drupal allows the administrator to assign metadata categories, whereas DSpace uses DC by default - which is fine - but I prefer the flexibility of Drupal. Plus, at first glance, editing categories in DSpace seems a bit difficult.
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