Dspace

Background

DSpace is an open source digital repository for the management of digital assets. Typically, DSpace is used as an institutional repository by organisations that create or hold a large number of digital assets, such as universities, laboratories, libraries and archives. 

DSpace is also intended as a platform for digital preservation activities. It supports long-term persistent identifiers for content that never change or break and the development roadmap foresees features to manage the technological obsolescence of data formats over time. DSpace is written in Java and is scalable and portable across different operating system platforms. An item of digital content in DSpace parlance is called a "bitstream".  Reflecting its origins among research institutions, bitstreams and their associated metadata are assigned to "collections" in the repository, and collections are owned by "communities".  The content is indexed by DSpace so that it can be searched for, retrieved and displayed over the web.