1. EIAH' S E XPERIENCE IN L OCALIZATION AND C USTOMIZATION OF D SPACE Emad Khazraee Saeed Moaddeli Hamed Malek Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History O PEN REPOSITORIES 2009 A TLANTA, 18- 21 M AY

2. I NTRODUCTION TO EIAH EIAH Founded at 2007 Nonprofit Organization Head director of the project: Mohammad Beheshti the Former head of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization Sponsors The Iranian Academy of Art Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts & Tourism Organization The Iranian Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Partners National Library & Archive of Iran Polytechnic University of Iran Shahid Beheshti University of Iran 21 May 2009 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta 2

3. G OALS AND OBJECTIVES EIAH Goals Increasing the quantity and improve the quality of information on Iranian culture Facilitating the recovery of vernacular identity Presenting the joint heritage of the countries in the region for further interaction and focusing on cultural unity Objectives Providing varied types of resources Providing eligible and accurate resources Providing accessible resources 21 May 2009 3 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

4. EIAH CAKE 21 May 2009 4 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

5. D SPACE 21 May 2009 5 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

6. D IGITAL REPOSITORY : WHY D SPACE ? Open Source software The community around Dspace Features The development team behind it Other options… 21 May 2009 6 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

7. L OCALIZATION Persian translation of messages Persian calendar Persian user interface 21 May 2009 7 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

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9. P ERSIAN LOCALIZATION ISSUES Right to left writing system (like Arabic and Hebrew) Bi-directional text 21 May 2009 9 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

10. P ERSIAN LOCALIZATION ISSUES Different characters for numbers Different punctuation Non-joiners 21 May 2009 10 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

11. P ERSIAN CALENDAR Iranian calendar based on Jalali calendar 33-year algorithm Standard time and date representation 21 May 2009 11 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

12. P ERSIAN SEARCH ISSUES Some Arabic characters Joiners and non-joiners diacritics 21 May 2009 12 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

13. R ECENTLY DEVELOPED : L UCENE SEARCH ENGINE Persian language approximate search 21 May 2009 13 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

14. R ECENTLY DEVELOPED L INKING M EDIAWIKI AND D SPACE dspaceBox extension Uses OAI-PMH 2.0 Stores in SQLite database Searches on the index Capable of searching on a federation of repositories 21 May 2009 14 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

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16. C USTOMIZATION : EIAH METADATA SCHEME Application profile based on Dublin Core Comprehensive metadata element set 21 May 2009 16 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta term

17. F UTURE WORKS Manakin XMLUI Implementing DC application profile based on Singapore framework Book viewer plug-in Preservation policy RPM packaging 21 May 2009 17 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

18. R ESOURCES http://eiah.org Iranian_calendarIranian_calendar on Wikipedia Persian languagePersian language on Wikipedia Dublin Core Website Open Archive initiative website http://isiri.orghttp://isiri.org ISIRI 9147 & ISIRI 6219 21 May 2009 18 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta