1. DSpace
Devika P. Madalli
DRTC, ISI
Bangalore

2. What is DSpace? Digital Object management system
Create, search retrieve digital objects
Facilitate preservation of digital objects
An open source software
Allows open access and digital archiving
Allows building Institutional Repositories

3. H/W and S/W requirements
UNIX recommended (Java-based program should run on anything)
Open source, built on Apache web server and Tomcat Servlet engine
Uses postgreSQL relational database

4. What DSpace can do? Captures Describes OAI-PMH version 2.0 compliant
Digital content in any formats directly from creators (e.g. researcher, authors)
Describes
Descriptive, technical, rights metadata
Persistent identifiers
OAI-PMH version 2.0 compliant
Allow metadata creation

5. Possible Content Preprints, articles Postprints Technical Reports
Conference Papers
Theses/Dissertations
Datasets
e.g. statistical, geospatial, scientific

6. Digitized library collections
Images
visual, scientific, etc.
Audio files
Video files
Digitized library collections

7. File Formats Known/supported Known/unsupported TIFF, SGML/XML, PDF
Microsoft Word, PowerPoint
Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect

8. Information Model Communities Collections Items Files (bitstreams)
Departments, Labs, Research Centers, Schools…
Collections
Items
Files (bitstreams)
Multiple formats - same content
Complex objects – multiple files

9. Intellectual Property
Click-through license during submission
Grants DSpace non-exclusive right to acquire, manage, preserve, distribute the item
Does not grant DSpace copyright
Copy of license stored with item

10. Goodies Modular architecture, well-defined APIs 100% open source
Programmed in java
RDBMS and SQL for metadata
CNRI “handles” for persistent identifiers
OpenURL linking
OAI-PMH for exposing metadata

11. Backend Technology Apache, Tomcat, OpenSSL/mod_ssl
Java 1.3, JSP 1.2, Servlet 2.3
PostgreSQL 7, JDBC (rdbms)
CNRI Handle System 5 (persistent ids)
Lucene 1.2 (index/search)

12. Metadata standards Dublin Core only (currently)
Descriptive metadata only
OAI-PMH v 2.0 (Open Archive’s Initiative Protocol for metadata harvesting)

13. Capabilities Exports in XML format
Next version will have METS (metadata encoding and transmission standard) for export