2. Open source software
for building open access repositories
Imma Subirats Coll
knowledge and information management officer
FAO of the United Nations

3. Introduction
Description of three open source
softwares for building open access
repositories
Eprints Software
Dspace
Fedora Commons
Comparative analysis
Use
Use Cases
Agriculture & Related Sciences
Worldwide

4. Software

5. Eprints Software
Developer University of Southampton
Stable release 3.2.0 / March, 2010
Written in Perl
Operating system Cross-platform
Development status Active
Type Institutional repository software
License GPL
Website http://software.eprints.org

6. DSpace
Developer DSpace Foundation
Stable release 1.6.0 / March 2, 2010
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Development status Active
Type Institutional repository software
License BSD licence
Website http://www.dspace.org

7. Fedora Commons
Developer Cornell University Information
Science & University of Virginal Library
Stable release 3.3 / December 21, 2009
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Development status Active
Type digital repository
License ECL (Apache derived)
Website http://www.fedora-commons.org/

8. Evaluation*
*Nicolai, Claudia; Subirats, Imma; Bagdanov, Andy (2008)
Evaluating Selected Open Source Repository Systems for the
FAO Open Archive DSpace and Fedora Commons

9. C01. Strenght of
development
community
C02. Strenght of
users
community
C03. Frequency
of release
C04. Longevity of
the software
C05. Adequate
support
C06. Documentation
quality
C07. Security C08. Access
rights
C09. Hierarchical
organization
Fedora Dspace Eprints
4.5 4.5
4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.04.0 4.0 4.0
3.53.5
3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0
2.5 2.5
2.0 2.0 2.0
Community, Activity, Longevity,
Support, Documentation & Security

10. C10. Quality and
configuration of
workflow tools
C11. Internationalisation C12. Support
multiple installations
on platform
C13. System
administration and
monitoring
C14. Migration form
previous versions
C15. Extensibility
and quality
C16. Performance
Fedora Dspace Eprints
3.5 3.5 3.5
3.5 3.5
3.0
2.5 2.5
Functionality
4.04.0
1.5
2.25
5.0 5.0 5.0
4.0 4.0 4.0
4.5 4.5 4.5

11. C17. Interoperability C18. OAI-PMH compliance C19. SRU/SRW compliance C20. Open URL Persistent links C05. Flexible and modular
system architecture
Fedora Dspace Eprints
3.5 3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0 2.0
Integration & Modularity
5.0
4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0
4.54.5 4.5 4.5

12. Fedora Dspace Eprints
C22. Customizable
metadata
schema
C23. Use of
multilingual
controlled
vocabularies
C24. Import
metadata
C25. Authority
control
C26. System
generated usage
statistics
C27. Versioning
system
C28. Long term
preservation
strategy
3.5
3.0 3.0 3.0
2.5 2.5
2.0 2.0
1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Metadata, Statistics & Reports,
Preservation
5.0 5.0 5.0
4.0 4.0 4.0
4.5
3.5

13. Eprints Software
Manages full text and metadata
Easy full text upload
Easy to install
Development centralized by the University
of Southampton
Out of the box

14. DSpace
Manages full text and metadata
Easy upload of full texts
Possibility to build collections
Large and active user community
Easy to install
Strong preservation policy
Out of the box

15. Fedora Commons
Integration
Preservation
Modularity
Enriched metadata management
Security

16. Use Cases

17. E-LIS, E-prints in Library and
Information Science
http://eprints.rclis.org/

18. Thai Agricultural Knowledge
Repository
http://anchan.lib.ku.ac.th/jspui/

19. FAO Open Archive
Relationships between
the digital objects
[language versions,
different editions and
monographs/analytics]
Workflow integrating
electronic publishing
cataloguing. FAO Units
Subject
Gateways
Other Search
Engines
FAO OA Repository
(based on Fedora Commons)
Submit
Cataloguing
Indexing
CORE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
DISSEMINATION
Eletronic format Paper format
PERIPHERAL INPUT SYSTEM
Submit
Edit
Reject
Workspace
Departmental approver
Metadata Document
Digitalization
Offshoring
Conversation
FAO Cataloguer FAO Units
Cataloguing
admin
Eletronic publishing
admin

20. Worldwide
Usage

21. Usage of Open Access
Repository Software
(65 Others) (285 = 18%)
TOTAL = 1620 repositoriesOpenDOAR 21-Apr-210
Wildfire (23 = 1%)
HTML (23 = 1%)
Diva-Portal (23 = 1%)
OPUS (54 = 3%)
Digital Commons (74 = 5%)
EPrints (269 = 17%)
(Unknown) (338 = 21%)
DSpace (531 = 33%)USAGE OF OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORY SOFTWARE
Worldwide

22. Usage in
Agriculture*
*Subirats, Imma; Dister, Sarah; Keizer, Johannes (2010)
Use of Technology and Semantics in Open Access in Food,
Agriculture, Development, Fisheries, Forestry and
Natural Resources

23. Drupal
5%
Action Application 1%ScIELO 2%
ARNO 1%
Imis 1%
InMagic 2%
PC-Axis 1%
Digital Commons 2%
Impress CMS 1%
Greensonte
4%
WebAgris 7%
Other
11%
Locally produced
solution
16%
Fedora Commons 2%
Eprints
Software
11%
DSpace
30%

24. Thank you for your attention
Imma.subirats@fao.org