DIGITAL LIBRARY MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF OPEN

SOURCE SOFTWARE
Introduction

Digital library management system is a software system that

provides preservation, organization and dissemination services for
digital collections. Greenstone and Dspace are widely used software
systems for digital libraries. The Present article discusses about the
digital library. The rapid changes in digital library developments are
pervasive. The Open Source based software development model
provides industry, government, and academia with significant
opportunities to leverage. This paper deals with the concept of
Open Source Software. It gives advantages of digital library. It
explains the Role of OSS in learning and teaching. It Provides that
how to choose an Open Source library. It will also provide popular
open source software for digital library in India. 
 What is Digital Library?
Definitions
A digital library contains digital representations of the objects found in it - most
understanding of the "DL" probably also assumes that it will be accessible via the
Internet, though not necessarily to everyone. But the idea of digitization is perhaps
the only characteristic of a digital library on which there is universal agreement.

Digital Library a collection of material organized to provide physical, bibliographical,

and intellectual access to a target group with a staff that is trained to provide services
and programs related to the information needs of the target group"

We can say that:

“An informal definition of a digital library is a managed collection of
information, with associated services, where the information is stored in
digital formats and accessible over a network”
Advantages Of Digital
Library
A major advantage of digital libraries is
that people from all over the world can
gain access to the information at any
time .
v No physical boundary
v Round the clock availability
v Multiple accesses
v Information retrieval
v Preservation and conservation
 What is Open Source?

More precisely, it refers to four kinds of

freedom, for the users of the software:
• The freedom to run the program, for any
purpose,
• The freedom to study how the program
works, and adapt it to users’ needs
Access to the source code is a precondition
for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so one can
help another.
The freedom to improve the program, and
release the improvements to the public, so
Role of Open Source Software (OSS) in
Learning and Teaching

The Absence of license fees: Most of

the times institutes pay a plenty of amount
of software’s companies to use their
products but open source are license free.
Flexibility: OSS are flexible they are easy
to customized and free modules and other
features are also imported through the
community.
Service Community: Forums are the
networks of people who share their
experiences and also come up with
Why and how to choose
Open Source?
Open source means the software code
is available to users and developers, with
few restrictions on usage, modification or
distribution. Open Source Software is
widely deployed by corporations and
governments for robust applications in
business, education and science.

Extensibility
Low cost
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 Architecture (FEDORA). It can be used to
develop institutional repositories and other interoperable web-
based digital libraries and the system implements the fedora
architecture, adding utilities that facilitate repository
management. It has been developed by the university of
Virginia and Cornell University.

Characteristics of Fedora
Preservation
Metadata
Access
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 quality, high value
Popular Open Source Software for
Digital Library in India

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;
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.

WHY LIBRARIES NEEDS OPEN SOURCE

Severe budget cuts.
Increased demand for services.
Conclusion
Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative work to
help each other, they are not the same thing. The Free Software
Foundation uses a specific license and provides software under that
license. The Open Source Initiative seeks support for all open source
licenses, including the one from the Free Software Foundation. These
initiatives have much potential for libraries and information centers
and there are numbers projects, including Koha, Greenstone,
Dspace, Fedora etc. Collections may be built and served locally from
the user’s own web server, or remotely on a shared digital library
host. Open Source essentially empowers less privileged communities
though it does not follow that it is meant only for them. There is no
denying the fact that OSS enables bridging the digital divide in more
ways than one. Libraries in the developing countries are able to
support electronic access, digital libraries.
Thank You

anilkmishra