1. How Worthy is DSpace for Digital Libraries
Amit Kumar Shaw
MS in Library & Information Science, Student
Documentation Research and Training Centre( DRTC)
Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore – 560059
2. Agenda
† Introduction
† Requirement DSpace
† Why DSpace
† Possible Content
† Information Model
† Architecture
† DRTC – Digital Library
† Members and New Users
† Workflow
† Conclusion
3. Introduction
A DL in which collections are stored in digital formats and
accessible via computers. The digital content may be stored
locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. A DL is a
type of information retrieval system.
DSpace
† Digital Object management system
† Create, search and retrieve digital objects
† Facilitate preservation of digital objects
† An open source software
† Allows open access and digital archiving
† Allows building Institutional Repositories
4. Statistics had been taken from the OpenDOAR (July 2012)
Total founded 2025 repositories among 48(2.3%) from India.
Major contributor are Japan and Taiwan. The uses of the
repositories software in worldwide are:
† DSpace (749 - 37%)
† Eprints (324 - 16%)
† Digital Commons (81 - 4%)
† OPUS(61 - 3%)
† Greenstone(21 - 1%)
5. Requirement
Requirement for Unix Operating System
† Apache-ant-1.8.3-bin
† Apache-maven-3.0.4-bin
† Apache-tomcat-7.0.27
† Postgresql-9.1.3 J
† Jdk-6u25
† Dspace-3.0-src-release
6. Reason
† User Interface
† Workflow
† Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
† Persistent Identifiers (Handles)
† Access Control
† Metadata Schema
† Preservation
† Search and Retrieval
29. † Uploading Item with Multiple Files
† Item more than one Title
† Multi – Language Documents
30. Conclusion
DSpace Cloud
† Get your repository up and running quickly and cost
effectively
† Select the features that suit your needs
† Ease the pain of software upgrades and maintenance
† Protect your content
† Take your repository back at any time
† DSpace is a fairly powerful software
† Allows submission of digital documents by it members
31. DRTC Sites
• https://drtc.isibang.ac.in (Librarians' Digital Library)
• http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg (Discussion Forum)
• http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/sdl (Harvester in LIS)
• http://drtc.isibang.ac.in
32. Reference
† Andrews, Judith and Law, Derek, 2003, Digital Libraries: Policy,
Planning and Practice, The MIT Press, London.
† Tedd, Lucy A and Large, Andrew, 2005, Digital Libraries: Principles
and Practice in a Global Environment, K C Saur, Munchan .
† Kim, Yunhyong and Song, Dawai, Why did you pick that? ,
International journal of Digital Libraries. Vol 11 (No. 2), pg59 – 74.
† Prasad, ARD and Madali, Devika P, DSpace Project, International
Workshop on Building Digital Libraries using DSpace, pg 1 – 14.
† SourceForge retrieval on 25.06.2012
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/?source
† DSpace at MIT retrieval on 21.06.2012 http://www.dspace.org
† DRTC Digital Library retrieval on 19.06.2012
https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/