DSpace

DSpace is a groundbreaking digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes an organization's research data. DSpace is jointly developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs. The DSpace software platform serves a variety of digital archiving needs. DSpace is freely available as Open Source Software.

Contents of Dspace

DSpace accepts all forms of digital materials including text, images, video, and audio files. Possible content includes the following:

• Documents, such as articles, preprints, working papers, technical reports, conference papers
• Books
• Theses
• Data sets
• Computer programs
• Visualizations, simulations, and other models
• Multimedia publications
• Administrative records
• Published books
• Overlay journals
• Bibliographic datasets
• Images
• Audio files
• Video files
• Reformatted digital library collections
• Earning objects
• Web pages

Features

• DSpace supports OAI – PMH (Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) Resumption tokens

• DSpace also includes batch tools to import and export items in a simple directory structur

• DSpace exposes the Dublin Core metadata for items that are publicly (anonymously) accessible

• DSpace uses the CNRI Handle System for creating identifiers

• DSpace supports uploading and downloading of bit streams as-is. This is fine for the majority of commonly used file formats such as PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, spreadsheets

• Document discovery and retrieval

• Digital preservation                                                                                            

Reasons to Use DSpace

• Largest community of users and developers worldwide
• Free open source software
• Completely customizable to fit our needs
• Used by many educational, government, private and commercial institutions
• Can be installed out of the box
• Can mange and preserve all types of digital content