Digital Library

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 preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. And with an ever-growing community of developers, committed to continuously expanding and improving the software, each DSpace installation benefits from the next.

Why Use DSpace

  • Largest community of users and developers worldwide & Free open source software
  • Completely customizable to fit your needs
  • Manage and preserve all types of digital content: text, images, moving images, mpegs, datasets
  • Used by educational, government, private and commercial institutions
  • Easily installed “out of the box”

DSpace Community

DSpace is used at academic institutions, research and resource centers, museums, hospitals, government and commercial organizations. DSpace is the most popular repository platform, with 28% of the market share. There are over 300 DSpace instances located in over 50 different countries around the world. The DSpace community of developers, librarians, administrators and researchers is vibrant and active through email lists as well as through regular user group meetings. Anyone is free to ask questions and obtain assistance from both technical

DSpace Foundation

Due to the growing number of DSpace users, Hewlett- Packard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to form an independent, non-profit organization in July 2007, DSpace Foundation. The foundation provides leadership and support to the user community. In addition to working with the community to determine the platform’s roadmap, the foundation aims to advocate and promote open access to scholarly works. In so doing, materials are available to anyone, at any time, in any part of the world — expanding knowledge, furthering research, and fostering collaboration.

 

Fedora Commons Repository Software

You can manage all of your digital contents by using Fedora commons. It is Open Source Software Like and it belongs to duraspace. Fedora has many features. These features are:

  • Store all types of content and its metadata
    • Digital content of any type can be managed and maintained
    • Metadata about content in any format can be managed and maintained
  • Scale to millions of objects
  • Access data via Web APIs (REST/SOAP)
  • Provide RDF search (SPARQL)
  • Rebuilder Utility (for disaster recovery and data migration)
  • The entire repository can be rebuilt from the digital object and content files.
  • Content Model Architecture (define “types” of objects by their content)
  • Many storage options (database and file systems)
  • JMS messaging (your apps can “listen” to repository events)
  • Web-based Administrator GUI (low-level object editing)
  • OAI-PMH Provider Service
  • GSearch (fulltext) Search Service
  • Multiple, customer driven front-ends.
You can get more information by surfing the official site of Fedora-comms

 

 

Greenstone

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Factsheet for more information.

The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries. Digital libraries are radically reforming how information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO’s partner communities and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the world, and particularly in developing countries. We hope that this software will encourage the effective deployment of digital libraries to share information and place it in the public domain. Further information can be found in the book How to build a digital library, authored by three of the group’s members.

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