As I’ve been working with RODA (I managed to get the Virtual Machine installed on my laptop, and also managed to ALMOST install it from scratch–as usual my unfamiliarity with how to configure Open LDAP is the source of the problem), I came across a review of the RODA demo site posted in June of last year. Since I suspect few people in the US have come across this review, I’m passing on a link to the posting on “Alan’s Notes on Digital Preservation”.
I really agree with one aspect of the review. The RODA end user interface is S-L-I-C-K. Especially when viewing images, it is thing of beauty. The staff management side of is also excellent, it seems to use some pretty advanced AJAX techniques and has a clean, well designed UI. You really don’t need to spend much, if any, time learning to use the application. Everything just seems to be in the right place and more or less self-explanatory, even when the messages are in Portuguese!
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