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How does Thalia differ from Dspace?
The Thalia service differs from Dspace, a digital asset service offered by the libraries, the following ways:
- Thalia's UI is highly visual and "desktop-like", supporting drag-and-drop, slider tools, item and group selection, etc. DSpace uses more of a 'card catalog' style of UI.
- Thalia users can customize their metadata values and assign tags to images. This allows them to use fields and values that are most relevant to their discipline.
- Dspace metadata is fixed. You may only define fields rom a predetermined set.
- Thalia users can group images into collections for their own purposes, caption them, order them, and make slideshows out of them. Dspace does not have this application concept.
- Thalia users may share content as broadly or narrowly as they prefer.
- DSpace is curated content. Thalia content is added at the user's discretion. Thalia operations staff does not review content except in the event of a violation of terms of service or abuse.
- DSpace has an archival emphasis, to ensure the materials will survive in readable form for future scholars. DSpace content is monitored for "bit rot" to ensure file integrity. DSpace may automatically convert files to modern formats as old ones become obsolete. Thalia does not monitor or modify files. They remain in the original format that users uploaded.
- Thalia items may be accessed directly by REST-style URLS which are relatively stable and not mapped to specific machines, although a "guaranteed URL" service is not provided