DSpace
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A DSpace is an Open Source Software that is designed to capture, store, index, preserve, redistribute and locate/search an organization's digital output, typically of intellectual/research nature.
- Context:
- It can be designed to support the long-term preservation.
- It is jointly developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs.
- See: Document Management, MIT, HP Labs, DuraSpace, Java (Programming Language), Cross-Platform, Institutional Repository, BSD Licence, Open Source Software, Open Access, Content Management System.
References
2017a
- (DSpace, 2017) ⇒ http://www.dspace.org/introducing Retrieved:2017-7-1.
- QUOTE: 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.
- QUOTE: 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.
2017b
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSpace Retrieved:2017-7-1.
- 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.