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The DSpace Institutional Digital Repository System: Current Functionality

In this paper we describe DSpace™, an open source system that acts as a repository for digital research and educational material produced by an organization or institution. DSpace was developed during two years’ collaboration between the Hewlett-Packard Company and MIT Libraries. The development team worked closely with MIT Libraries staff and early adopter faculty members to produce a ‘breadth-first’ system, providing all of the basic features required by a digital repository service. As well as functioning as a live service, DSpace is intended as a base for extending repository functionality, particularly to address long-term preservation concerns. We describe the functionality of the current DSpace system, and briefly describe its technical architecture. We conclude with some remarks about the future development and operation of the DSpace system.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/26705
Date January 2003
CreatorsTansley, Robert, Bass, Mick, Stuve, David, Branschofsky, Margret, Chudnov, Daniel, McClellan, Greg, Smith, MacKenzie
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Format515692 bytes, application/pdf

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