DSpace

DSpace
Original author(s) MIT and HP Labs
Developer(s) DuraSpace
Initial release November 2002
Stable release
6.2 / 8 September 2017 (2017-09-08)[1]
Repository https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace
Written in Java
Type Institutional repository software
License BSD licence
Website dspace.org

DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. While DSpace shares some feature overlap with content management systems and document management systems, the DSpace repository software serves a specific need as a digital archives system, focused on the long-term storage, access and preservation of digital content.

History

The first public version of DSpace was released in November 2002, as a joint effort between developers from MIT and HP Labs.[2] Following the first user group meeting in March 2004, a group of interested institutions formed the DSpace Federation,[3] which determined the governance of future software development by adopting the Apache Foundation's community development model as well as establishing the DSpace Committer Group.[4] In July 2007 as the DSpace user community grew larger, HP and MIT jointly formed the DSpace Foundation,[5] a not-for-profit organization that provided leadership and support. In 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.[6] Currently the DSpace software and user community receives leadership and guidance from DuraSpace.

Technology

DSpace is constructing with Java web applications and many programs and an associated metadata store. The web applications provide interfaces for administration, deposit, ingest, search, and access. This web application is maintained the file of the system or storage system. The metadata is stored in a relational database and supports the use of PostgreSQL and Oracle database.[7] DSpace holdings are made available primarily via a web interface, More recent versions of DSpace also support faceted search and browse functionality using Apache Solr.[8]

Features

Some most important features of DSpace are as follows.[9]

  • Free open source software
  • Completely customizable to fit user needs
  • Manage and preserve all format of digital content (PDF,Word, JPEG, MPEG, TIFF files)
  • Apache SOLR based search for metadata and full text contents
  • UTF-8 Support
  • Interface available in 22 languages[10]
  • Granular group based access control, allowing setting permissions down to the level of individual files
  • Optimized for Google Scholar indexing

Operating Systems

DSpace software runs on Linux, Solaris, Unix, Ubuntu and Windows. It can also be installed on OS X. Linux is by far the most common OS for DSpace.[11]

Notable DSpace repositories

  • The World Bank - Open Knowledge Repository [12]
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository[13]
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard[14]
  • DSpace@MIT[15]
  • WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Latest Release
  2. ↑ "DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository", D-Lib Magazine, January 2003 .
  3. ↑ Final Report on the Initial Development of the DSpace Federation (PDF) (research report), Mellon, June 2004 .
  4. ↑ DSpace Committer Group (wiki), Duraspace .
  5. ↑ DSpace Foundation (press release), Hewlett‐Packard .
  6. ↑ "DuraSpace", OAI implementers (mailing list) (press release), Open archives, May 2009 .
  7. ↑ "DSpace Under the Hood: How DSpace works", Open Repositories (conference), DE: Uni Bielefeld, 2010 .
  8. ↑ DSpace Discovery: Unifying DSpace Search and Browse with Solr, DE: Uni Bielefeld .
  9. ↑ DSpace Functional Overview
  10. ↑ DSpace XMLUI Languages
  11. ↑ "DSpace User Registry | DuraSpace". registry.duraspace.org. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  12. ↑ World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
  13. ↑ Apollo
  14. ↑ Harvard DASH
  15. ↑ DSpace@MIT
  16. ↑ WHO IRIS
  • DSpace – official site
  • Github Code Repository (code), Duraspace
  • DuraSpace
  • "DSpace User Registry", Who’s using DSpace
  • "Practical guidelines for starting an institutional repository using DSpace software", Full wiki link
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