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DSpace is an excellent, rock-solid, Open-source Digital Repository System (Digital Library). Created at MIT, being used worldwide in libraries/organizations of all sizes, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Impressive feature set of DSpace continue to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. . .
 
     
 
Why DSpace ?
Full-featured Digital Library. DSpace is a true enterprise-class Digital Library with comprehensive functionality including basic or advanced options, is a digital library system to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university's research faculty in digital formats..
 
 
DSpace is organized to accommodate the multidisciplinary and organizational needs of a large institution. DSpace provides access to the digital work of the whole institution through one interface. DSpace is organized into Communities and Collections, each of which retains its identity within the repository. Customization for DSpace communities and collections allows for flexibility in determining policies and workflow.
 
 
Supported Formats and Content Types
(Digital content type, supported by DSpace)
 
 
Text Images Audio Video
 
 
Some examples of items that DSpace can accommodate are:
 
 
Documents such as articles, preprints,
working papers, technical reports, conference papers
Books Theses
Visual simulations and models Computer programs Data sets
 
 

Each institution that implements DSpace can determine its own list of supported formats and content types, based on its needs and resources. .
 
 
Digital Preservation : One of the primary goals of DSpace is to preserve digital information.
 
 
DSpace provides long-term physical storage and management of digital items in a secure, professionally managed repository including standard operating procedures such as backup, mirroring, refreshing media, and disaster recovery. DSpace assigns a persistent identifier to each contributed item to ensure its retrievability far into the future. DSpace provides a mechanism for advising content contributors of the preservation support levels they can expect for the files they submit.
 
 

 
 
 
Features
 
 
DSpace is a comprehensive system
 
 
that will intelligently run your library - large or small
 
 
A full featured modern integrated Digital Library Dystem Award winning and open source no license fee, ever Web Based. Can be fully integrated into your website
Multiple formats of the same content item can be submitted to Dspace, for example, a TIFF file and a GIF file of the same image. Various statistical reports about the contents and usage of your system can be automatically generated by the system In addition to the email subscription services, recent submissions to communities and collections are also available via RSS feeds
Advance use of Meta-data. Open Source, Cross platform, No vendor-lock, Standards Compliant. Web based system (allows public to search the content in the library through Internet)
and a lot more................
OpenLX provides support for DSpace
www.openlx.com/dspace.php