DSpace: A Year in the Life of an Open Source Digital Repository System

摘要

The DSpace™ digital repository system was released as open sourcesoftware in November of 2002. In the year since then it has been adopted by alarge number of research universities and other organizations world-wide thatneed a digital repository solution for a number of content types: research articles,gray literature, e-theses, cultural materials, scientific datasets, institutionalrecords, educational materials, and more. The DSpace platform and its variousapplications are becoming better understood with experience and time. As oneresult of a recent meeting of the DSpace user community, we are now venturinginto the territory of broad, community-based open source development andmanagement, and gaining insights from the experience of the Apache Foundation,Global Grid Forum, and other successful open source projects about howto build open source software for the digital library domain.