Selecting A Digital Library Software For Multilingual Collections Cristiane de Oliveira and WHO Libraries

1. Selecting A Digital Library Software For
Multilingual Collections
Cristiane de Oliveira and WHO Libraries
Background Methodology
World Health Organization (WHO) Libraries, Kepner‐Tregoe was used as a methodology for
with teams of web, publishing and decision‐making, based on:
information technologies have been working 1)Definition of a clear decision
very closely to promote interoperability statement/objective
among information sources and to 2)Establishment of strategic requirements
implement a WHO global institutional (MUSTS). Weighted 5 each
repository. Its main purpose is to increase 3)Establishment of operational requirements
access and facilitate dissemination of WHO (WANTS). Scored from 0 to 10.
multilingual publications and avoid 4)Ranking of operational requirements, 1 to 4.
duplication of resources and efforts. 5)Ranking of 3 softwares
6) Practical testing and scoring of each software
Definition and criteria 7) Calculation of average score for each
requirement
The Working group agreed on basic 8) Identification of adverse consequences: risks
requirements and common standards for 9) Balancing of overall score (probability x
interoperability among repositories in WHO: criticality)
‐ Use of open source
‐ OAI‐PMH
‐ Dublin Core for metadata
‐ Interface available in 6 official languages and
others
Shortlist of possible solutions
The group also prepared an analysis of all
open source repository softwares available
by reviewing their documentation, and a
shortlist with three:
‐ Greenstone
‐ Fedora Commons
‐ DSpace
Adverse consequences example
Conclusion
The workshop participants recommend
Evaluation workshop Dspace as the most appropriate software
to host WHO’s global institutional
The Working Group performed a thorough
repository. The group also considers the
evaluation of the three short‐listed softwares
partnership with Fedora Commons and
during a 5‐day workshop held in WHO
the integration with Duraspace.
Headquarters, Geneva, on October 2009.
Towards implementation: http://www.who.int/iris