DSpace is an open source repository software platform designed for academic and research institutions to capture, store, distribute and preserve digital materials. It provides tools to organize content such as articles, reports, datasets and multimedia into an institutional repository that is accessible over time. DSpace uses Dublin Core metadata standards and has customizable workflows, user interfaces and technological features like OAI-PMH protocol support to facilitate interoperability between repositories. It is widely used with a large user community and supports long-term digital preservation goals.
2. Software of choice for academic,
nonprofit, and commercial
organizations building open
repositories.
Facilitate the building of institutional
repositories that capture, distribute
and preserve intellectual output at an
institutional level.
3. Designed to help capture and organize
everything produced by faculty and
staff (digitized versions of lecture
notes, videos, papers and data sets)
into an institutional repository that
will make it available to future
generations in its original digital form.
4. an open source repository application that
allows you to capture, store, index, preserve
and distribute your digital material
including text, video, audio and data
provides a way to manage your materials and
publications in a professionally maintained
repository to give them greater visibility and
accessibility over time
5. Especially designed for digital
preservation support for all documents
like:
Documents, such as articles, preprints,
working papers, technical reports,
conference papers
Books
Theses
Data sets
Computer programs
Visualizations, simulations, and other
models
Multimedia publications
6. Administrative records
Published books
Overlay journals
Bibliographic datasets
Images
Audio files
Video files
e-formatted digital library collections
Learning objects
Web pages
7. March 2000
- Hewlett- Packard company (HP) awarded $1.8 million
to the MIT libraries for an 18-month collaboration to
build DSpace, a dynamic repository for the intellectual
output in digital formats of multi-disciplinary research
organization.
8. November 4, 2002
- HP labs and MIT libraries
released the system worldwide
under the terms of the BSD open
source license.
9. July 2007
as the DSpace user community grew larger, HP and MIT
jointly formed the DSpace Foundation, a not-for-profit
organization that provided leadership and support.
May 2009
collaboration on related projects and growing synergies
between the DSpace Foundation and the Fedora
Commons organization led to the joining of the two
organizations to pursue their common mission in a not-
for-profit called DuraSpace.
Currently the DSpace software and user community
receives leadership and guidance from DuraSpace.
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12. It helps to create, index and
retrieve various types of digital
contents which include research
articles, grey literature, thesis,
cultural materials, 3D digital scans
of objects, photograph, etc.
13. Provides a set of tools for helping institutions keep
track of their data, organize it in a meaningful way and
migrate that data to new ones for the old ones become
obsolete.
Common file formats are automatically identified and
media types are recognized and playable. Full-text and
faceted searching is driven by robust, customizable
metadata delivered content linked to persistent
identifiers and available to other systems for OAI
metadata harvesting
14. 1.) Metadata
> uses a qualified Dublin Core metadata standard
for describing items intellectually.
>Only 3 fields are required
-title
-language
- submission date
>there are additional field for document abstracts,
keywords, technical and rights metadata.
This metadata id displayed in the item record in DSpace,
and is indexed for browsing and searching the system.
15. 2) Workflows
DSpace is the first open source digital repository system
to tackle the complex problem of how to accommodate
the differing submission workflows needed for a
multidisciplinary system. In other words, different
DSpace Communities, representing different schools,
departments, research labs and centers, have very
different ideas of how material should be submitted to
DSpace, by whom, and with what restrictions.
16. 3) User interface
Web-based interfaced
3 interfaces of Dspace
Submitters interface
End-user interface
Searching and retrieval of item by browsing or searching the metadata
System administrators
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22. 4) Technological platform
The system is designed to run on the UNIX platform, and
comprises other open source middleware and tools, and
programs written by the DSpace team.
All original code is in the Java programming language. Other
pieces of the technology stack include a relational database
management system (PostgreSQL), a Web server and Java
servlet engine (Apache and Tomcat, both from the Apache
Foundation), Jena (an RDF toolkit from HP Labs), OAICat
from OCLC, and several other useful libraries. All leveraged
components and libraries are also open source software.
Libraries are bundled where possible (exceptions are
described in the installation instructions). The system is
available on SourceForge ,linked from both the DSpace
informational web site and the HP Labs site.
23. 5) OAI
To further its goal of supporting interoperability with
other DSpace adopters, and with other digital
repositories, preprint, and e-print servers, the system
has implemented the Open Archives Initiative Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). DSpace used the
OCLC OAICat to accomplish this, and is currently
exposing Dublin Core metadata for every item in the
system.
24. Large community
Free
Customizable
All institution types
Out-of-the-box installation
Any digital content
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26. GREENSTONE DSPACE
short-term preservation long-term preservation
designed to be easy for anyone with basic
computer-literacy skills to install, in a
laptop, desktop, or institutional
environment.
designed for institutional use, where there
are centralized computing facilities and a
competent infrastructure for software
support.
