Platform Comparison Table

Platform Comparison Table

{| style="border-style:solid; border-color:black; color:black; background-color:#F9FFEE;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" ! ! eduCommons ! Connexions ! Drupal ! Moodle ! BlueStream ! align="left" |

Infrastructure Features
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first generation
! align="right" | Reasonable price ! align="right" | Sysadmin maintenance ! align="right" | Support community ! align="right" | Usable system interface ! align="right" | Access management ! align="right" | Batch upload ! align="right" | Media neutrality ! align="right" | Extensive and customizable metadata ! align="right" | Machine readable metadata ! align="right" | Hierarchies of content ! align="right" | Indexing and search ! align="right" | Push content out ! align="right" | Web services API ! align="left" |
 * open source
 * open source
 * open source
 * open source
 * $ + many 0's
 * minimal, enPraxis
 * CNX hosts
 * yes, extensive
 * yes?
 * minimal
 * small, enPraxis
 * author support through email and phone
 * large
 * growing
 * ?, U-M group
 * fair
 * good
 * fair
 * poor
 * poor
 * roles for publishing
 * public vs. private
 * user-defined roles
 * asset-level access, roles
 * asset-level access, roles
 * zip file w/few fields
 * ?, need to play
 * yes - ?
 * yes - ?
 * yes - ?
 * yes, restrictions?
 * ?: XML presentation, supports other media but we need to play
 * yes (limited)
 * yes (limited)
 * yes (limited)
 * good
 * maybe?
 * good
 * good
 * good
 * no?
 * yes, course-based
 * learning modules, not granular
 * yes, parent-child
 * yes, parent-child
 * yes, parent-child
 * search by a few metadata fields only
 * extensive (depending on media type)
 * extensive (depending on media type)
 * extensive (depending on media type)
 * extensive (depending on media type)
 * other sites can pull out content (URLs)
 * other sites can pull out content (URLs)
 * no
 * similar service, but not yet (other sites can pull out content (URLs))
 * yes (several, since bluestream is a mix of components)
 * yes (several, since bluestream is a mix of components)
 * yes (several, since bluestream is a mix of components)

future generations
! align="right" | OCR text in video ! align="right" | Audio to text ! align="right" | dScribe &amp; OERca integration ! align="right" | Embedded image extraction ! align="right" | File type conversion ! align="right" | Export pages as images ! align="right" | Language translation ! align="left" |
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * yes (limited)
 * IMS content package export/import from OERca
 * unsure
 * Web Services?
 * Web Services?
 * Web Services?
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * unsure
 * no
 * no

Interface Features
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first generation
! ! eduCommons ! Connexions ! Drupal ! Moodle ! BlueStream ! align="right" | Basic and advanced search ! align="right" | Dynamic and flexible search result filtering and sorting ! align="right" | Basic browsing ! align="right" | Display of related content ! align="right" | RSS feeds ! align="left" |
 * yes, but not by content type
 * yes, but not by content type
 * yes
 * yes
 * yes
 * no
 * yes
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * yes
 * yes
 * yes
 * yes
 * yes, but needs better interface
 * no
 * yes, limited
 * yes
 * yes, hidden
 * yes
 * yes

future generations
! align="right" | User-defined tagging ! align="right" | User favorites/portfolio ! align="right" | User-ratings ! align="right" | Social network integration ! align="right" | Passive and active collaborative filtering ! align="right" | Dynamic and flexible browse filtering and sorting
 * no
 * yes
 * yes
 * yes?
 * yes?
 * no
 * yes, favorites and lenses
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * not quite - does have endorsements and peer-review (to a degree)
 * yes?
 * yes?
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * yes?
 * yes?
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * yes
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
 * no
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