Do you know about KETE?

[Parvez Ahmad]

How is it functioning? welcome all information regarding the KETE. 

[Dr.Prabhat Pandey]

Kete is a collaboration engine. It is open source software that you can use to create and share online. Write topics and upload images, audio, video, documents. please visit www.kete.net.nz for more

[Parvez Ahmad]

Thanks sir...
Can be compare it any digital software?


parvez

[Md. Tarique Anwer]

dear parvez sir as per your querry i tried to comprise Kete with D space pls see and analyze.

Dspace

Dspace is open source Digital Libray archiving software developed by MIT and HP.
DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. Dspace is developed using Java.

45 DSpace Repositories in top 100 of IR Ranking of World Repositories.

DSpace has over 800 organizations that are currently using the DSpace software in a production or project environment. The most common use is by research libraries as an institutional repository, however there are many organizations using the software to host and manage subject based repositories, dataset repositories or media based repositories. See a complete list of registered users here. A census of Institutional Repositories in the United States was done by CLIR in 2007 and found that DSpace was the preferred Institutional Repository system software of the 446 participants in the survey.

Features:

1) Largest community of users worldwide.
2) Completely customizable to fit your needs.
 User interface - You can fully customize the look and feel of your DSpace website so it will integrate seamlessly with your own institution's website and can be more intuitive for your users.
 OAI-PMH compatible.
 Ability to choose the default language.
3) Used by educational, government, private and commercial institutions.
4) Can manage and preserve all types of digital content.
 The DSpace application can recognize and manage a large number of file format and mime types. Some of the most common formats currently managed within the DSpace environment are PDF and Word documents. JPEG, MPEG, TIFF files.

Database: Postgre SQL

Kete
Kete is Open Source Digital Library and Archiving software developed by Katipo Communications and the Horowhenua Library Trust.
Kete enables communities to collaboratively build their own digital libraries, archives and repositories. Your community builds the repository by writing topics, uploading images, audio, video and documents and then linking and discussing them.
Kete Features
Community Contributed Content
• Community contributed content can be anything from from MS Office documents, PDFs, images, video & audio files, web links, HTML pages and text files.
• If it can be uploaded or downloaded, it can be categorised and discussed by your community using Kete.
Built in discussion functionality
• Kete lets your community add comments and feedback to items and categories
• Kete builds
o community contribution
o collaboration and
o social networking.
Natural Language tags and content links
• Kete allows your contributors to add items and encourages them to create links to similar content items & categories.
• Kete lets people describe their material in their own words using natural language tags. They aren't limited by 'approved' subject headings.
• Content links and natural descriptions make it easier for your users to browse or search your collection and find things of interest to them.
User Access Control and Workflow
• Kete has a sophisticated system of user access controls, allowing you to restrict access to categories
• Categories can be made read-only or completely private as required.
• You can also provide public access to certain input areas.
• Users can be given editorial access to their own content, and can also set their own permissions, determining who else can edit their content.
• Workflow options and content approval are built in to Kete. You can customise these to meet your requirements.
Decentralised Content Management
• Kete can decentralise content management and data entry allowing you to turn over control to your community and allowing them to upload what's relevant to them.
Technical
• Kete is developed using Ruby on Rails, utilizes Zebra z39.50 full text indexing engine developed by IndexData, is fully compatible with the Koha ILS.
• Kete is released under a GNU General Public License (GPL).
• Initial development was undertaken as a partnership between the Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications Ltd. funded as part of the Community Partnership Fund in 2006.
Database Postgre SQL or Mysql

[Parvez Ahmad]

Thanks dear Tariq for your such knowledgeable comparison between KETE and DSpace.

again thanks.


parvez