DSPACE

• Original authors MIT and HP labs

• Developer: Dura space
• Initial release : November 2002
• Written in java
• Type : Institutional repositories software
INTRODUCTION
 Its an open source repository software package typically used for
a) Creating open access repositories for scholarly contents,
b) And or published digital content.
 Some notable d space repositories include;
a) the world bank open knowledge repositories
b) Apollo university of Cambridge repositories
c) digital access to scholarship at Harvard
FEATURES
• FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
• INTERFACE AVAILABLE IN 22 LANGUAGES
• COMPLTELY CUSTOMISABLE TO FIT USER NEEDS
• MANGE AND PRESERVE ALL FORMAT OF DIGITAL CONTENT
• UTF-8 SUPPORT
DSPACE IN RAJAGIRI
• Serves as a web based database of scholarly material.
• Its open to all and inter-operable in a decentralised manner
• Helps in long term reservation of digital materials.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
• HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
a) 1TB disc space
b) 12 virtual CP use
• SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
a) ubuntu 14.04 LTS server
b) java development kit
c)SQL database server
d) java wed app server
e) email server
f) perl 5
DATA MODELS
• COMMUNITIES : An administrative grouping of one or more
collections.
• COLLECTION : A grouping of item which are analogous for meta data
and work flow.
• ITEMS : A box which contains both document meta data and on eor
more bitstream bundles.
• BUNDLES : A grouping of bitstream used to separate original
documents, these obtained from automatic process, archiven and
creative commons.
• BITSTREAM : Digital content
IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
• Understanding current scenario
• Analysing business requirements
• Determining the need for customisation in D space and use of add on
modules.
• Customisation of D space
• User acceptance test
• Implementing D space at clients infrastructure
• Stabilising solutions
• User and administration training
• Solution hand over to users
• Delivery personalised manuals as per the needs of your organisation.
COST DETAILS
• D Space system is freely available as open source software under the
terms of the BSD distribution license.
• It can be freely downloaded from Git hub.
• Anyone can download D space.
• It could be run at any type of institution, organisation or company.
• Set up cost- 599 dollars
• Total cost of the repository : 260000 dollars per year (76500$ are
infrastructure costs and around 183500$ indicate direct or indirect
staff costs.
BENEFITS
• Easy and simple to install and operate
• Flexible
• Focus on institutional repositories use case