DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository

@article{citeulike:1650101, abstract = {Abstract For the past two years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs have been collaborating on the development of an open source system called DSpace™ that functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. Running such an institutionally-based, multidisciplinary repository is increasingly seen as a natural role for the libraries and archives of research and teaching organizations. As their constituents produce increasing amounts of original material in digital formats—much of which is never published by traditional means—the repository becomes vital to protect the significant assets of the institution and its faculty. The first part of this article describes the DSpace system including its functionality and design, and its approach to various problems in digital library and archives design. The second part discusses the implementation of DSpace at MIT, plans for federating the system, and issues of sustainability. Metadata DSpace uses a qualified Dublin Core metadata standard for describing items intellectually (specifically, the Libraries Working Group Application Profile). Only three fields are required: title, language, and submission date, all other fields are optional. There are additional fields for document abstracts, keywords, technical metadata and rights metadata, among others. This metadata is displayed in the item record in DSpace, and is indexed for browsing and searching the system (within a collection, across collections, or across Communities). For the Dissemination Information Packages (DIPs) of the OAIS framework, the system currently exports metadata and digital material in a custom XML schema while we work with the METS [3] community to develop the necessary extension schemas for the technical and rights metadata about arbitrary digital formats.}, author = {Smith, Mackenzie and Barton, Mary and Bass, Mick and Branschofsky, Margret and Mcclellan, Greg and Stuve, Dave and Tansley, Robert and Walker, Julie H. }, citeulike-article-id = {1650101}, journal = {D-Lib Magazine}, keywords = {digital\_repositories, metadata}, month = {January}, number = {1}, posted-at = {2007-09-13 02:29:42}, priority = {5}, title = {DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository}, url = {http://dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html}, volume = {9}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1650101 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1650101 TI - DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository JF - D-Lib Magazine VL - 9 IS - 1 N2 - Abstract For the past two years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs have been collaborating on the development of an open source system called DSpace™ that functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. Running such an institutionally-based, multidisciplinary repository is increasingly seen as a natural role for the libraries and archives of research and teaching organizations. As their constituents produce increasing amounts of original material in digital formats—much of which is never published by traditional means—the repository becomes vital to protect the significant assets of the institution and its faculty. The first part of this article describes the DSpace system including its functionality and design, and its approach to various problems in digital library and archives design. The second part discusses the implementation of DSpace at MIT, plans for federating the system, and issues of sustainability. Metadata DSpace uses a qualified Dublin Core metadata standard for describing items intellectually (specifically, the Libraries Working Group Application Profile). Only three fields are required: title, language, and submission date, all other fields are optional. There are additional fields for document abstracts, keywords, technical metadata and rights metadata, among others. This metadata is displayed in the item record in DSpace, and is indexed for browsing and searching the system (within a collection, across collections, or across Communities). For the Dissemination Information Packages (DIPs) of the OAIS framework, the system currently exports metadata and digital material in a custom XML schema while we work with the METS [3] community to develop the necessary extension schemas for the technical and rights metadata about arbitrary digital formats. KW - digital_repositories KW - metadata AU - Smith, Mackenzie AU - Barton, Mary AU - Bass, Mick AU - Branschofsky, Margret AU - Mcclellan, Greg AU - Stuve, Dave AU - Tansley, Robert AU - Walker, Julie PY - 2003/01// UR - http://dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html ER -