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Popular Open Source Software for Digital
Library in India
DSpace
Why DSpace?
• Dspace is an open source technology platform which can be customized
or extend its capabilities.
• Dspace is a service model for open access and/or digital archiving for
perpetual access.
• Dspace is a platform to build an Institutional Repository* and the
collections are searchable and retrievable by the Web.
• To make available institution-based scholarly material in digital formats.
The collections will be open and interoperable.
Popular Open Source Software for Digital
Library in India
FEDORA
The fedora is based on the flexible extensible Digital object and Repository
Characteristics of Fedora
Preservation
Metadata
Access
System Features
Popular Open Source Software for Digital
Library in India
EPRINT
EPrints Open Source Software is a platform for building
repositories of research literature, scientific data, student
theses, project reports, multimedia artefacts, teaching
materials, scholarly collections, digitised records,
exhibitions and performances.
EPrints is free software developed by the University of
Southampton, England.
EPrints is the most flexible platform for building high
KOHA 2.2
Koha version 2.2 is a free/libre open source integrated
library
system (ILS) for automating a lending library. It has
all of the basic features needed to run a library, handling:
an online public access catalogue (OPAC) of the library's holdings;
a database of library users;
issuing books to borrowers and returning books to the collection;
borrower requests for library items;
orders from vendors;
book budgets;
transfers between library branches;
management of subscriptions to periodical publications; and most other
functions associated with operating a lending library.
Popular Open Source Software for Digital
Library in India
GREENSTONE
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library
collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on
the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital
Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in
cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source,
multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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