A presentation on Digital Library Software by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru, Karnataka, India.

1. Digital Library Software
RupeshKumarA
Email:a.rupeshkumar@gmail.com

2. Software
• Software is a collection of instructions that enable the user to
interactwitha computer, its hardware, or perform tasks.
• A digital library software is a software which provides
functionalities for systematic selection, acquisition,
deposition, processing, search and discovery of digital
documents.

3. DL Software
• CommercialSoftware
• Free and Open Source Software

4. Commercial DLSoftware
• EnCompass
• DigiTool
• Visual Multimediaand ImagingSolutions(VMIS)
• TEAMS
• Insight
• MuseSearch
• EOS.Web

5. Free & Open Source DL Software
• Archimede
• Arno
• CDSWare(Invenio)
• DSpace
• Eprints
• Fedora Commons
• GSDL
• MyCoRe
• OPUS

6. Evaluation of DL Software
• Evaluationin the context of digital library software means
finding out
– Software System Performance
– Software System Functionalities
– User Interface
– Search Features
• Digitallibraries are complex systems, hence whileevaluating
digital library software, several criteria have to be applied.

7. Criteria forEvaluation of DL Software
• Content Acquisition
• Content Management
• Metadata Submission and Support
• Classification
• Browsing
• Searching
• Sorting
• Access Control, Privacyand Management
• Authentication and Authorization
• Interoperability
• Ease of Deployment (Installation)
• UserFriendliness in Interface
• Usability
• Copyright/Policy Issues
• AdvancedFeatures
• Digital Preservation

8. Study of Open Source DL Software
• Greenstone DigitalLibrary Software (GSDL)
• DSpace
• Eprints

9. DL SoftwarePlatforms
• Software Platform refers to the operating system, database
management system, web server and program compiler used for
running thesoftware.
• Differentsoftwareplatformsare:
– LAMP(Linux-Apache-MySQL-PhporPerl)
– WAMP(Windows-Apache-MySQL-PhporPerl)
– MAMP(MacOS-Apache-MySQL-PhporPerl)
• A cross-platform software is a software which can be installed on
differentoperatingsystems.
• MostDLsoftwarearecross-platform

10. GSDL
• Greenstone is a digital library software developed by the New
Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato,
NewZealand.
• It is a suite of software for building and distributing digital
library collections that provides a way of organizing
information and publishing it on the Internet and or on
removable media i.e. (CD-ROM/DVD).

11. History & Development
• First released during 1999.
• Open source software
• Present Stable Versions are:
– Greenstone2: Version 2.87
– Greenstone3: 3.08
• GSDL is a cross-platform software and supports:
– Microsoft Windows
– GNU/Linux
– MacOS
• S/w downloadable fromwww.greenstone.org or www.sourceforge.net

12. DSpace
• An open source softwaredeveloped jointly by Massachusetts
InstituteofTechnology (MIT) and Hewlett-Packard(HP) Labs.
• provides tools for management of digital assets, and is commonly
usedforbuildinginstitutionalrepositories.
• First version wasreleasedin 2002.
• Cross-platformsoftware
• Runson Windows,Linux,Unix,Solaris andOS X
• Current stableversion is6.0

13. Eprints
• A genericarchive softwaredeveloped by theUniversity of
Southampton.
• First version wasreleasedin November2000.
• First repository managementsoftwarewithOAI support.
• Cross platformsoftware
• Can be installedon Linux,Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows.
• Current stableversion is 3.3.15.

14. Comparative Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Features
GSDL DSpace EPrints
Document Types
supported
books, reports,
journal/
newspaper articles,
lecture notes,
technical reports,
thesis, images,
audio/video,
visual art or any other
document
all types of digital
documents ranging
from books, reports,
journal articles,
lecture notes,
technical reports,
thesis, images,
audio/video files to
data sets
Article, Book Section,
Monograph,
Conference or
workshop item, Book,
Thesis, Patent,
Artefact, Art pieces,
Video, Audio,
Datasets, teaching
resources and others.
Ability to define
scope of collections
Scope can be defined
while creating every
collection in
Greenstone
Separate communities
and collections can be
created
It is possible to define
the scope of
collections

15. Comparative Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Features
GSDL DSpace EPrints
File Formats supported Supports a wide range
of file formats.
Common formats are:
Text, HTML, Email, PDF,
RTF, Word, PS, Image,
ZIP, LaTex, MARC,
MARCXML,
METS, OggVorbis, PPT
PDF, AIFF, audio/basic,
BMP, CSS, FMP3, GIF,
HTML, image/png,
JPEG, Latex, MARC,
Mathematica,
Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Powerpoint,
Microsoft Project,
Microsoft visio,
Microsoft Word, MPEG,
MPEG Audio, PhotoCD,
Photoshop, PostScript,
Real Audio, RTF, SGML,
TeX, Tex dvi, Text, TIFF,
Video QuickTime,Wav,
Word Perfect, XML
All text formats and
JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP,
TIFF file formats, Adobe
Postscript, Adobe PDF,
HTML file formats,
MP3, AVI, MPEG

16. Comparative Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Features
GSDL DSpace EPrints
Duplicate Checking
facility
Yes. on the basis of
filename
No Yes. On the basis of
“Title”
Allows downloading
digital objects from
URL?
Yes No. the document has
to be available on
local disk
Yes
Metadata / Content
Import
Yes.
Metadata/content can
be imported from OAI
repository
Yes. METS and OAI Yes. Supports import
in a variety of formats
Unique identifier
assignment
Yes. GSDL assigns a
unique object
identifier or OID
Yes. DSpace generates
an internal ID
Yes. Eprints generates
a unique numeric ID

17. Comparative Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Features
GSDL DSpace EPrints
Deleting and moving of
objects
GSDL supports deletion
of objects, but does not
support moving of
objects from one
collection to another
DSpace supports
deletion and moving of
objects from one
collection to another
Eprints supports
deletion of objects, but
does not support
moving of objects from
one collection to
another
Submission Workflow
management
No. GSDL does not
support different
submission processes
Yes. Supports
submission,
accept/reject and edit
metadata processes
Yes. Supports
submission,
accept/reject and edit
processes
Email notification
system
No Yes Yes
Web Interface for users Yes Yes Yes
Automatic Metadata
Extraction
Yes No No

18. Comparative Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Features
GSDL DSpace EPrints
Customization of
Metadata Sets
Yes Yes Yes
Supports different
search strategies (Full
text searching,
Boolean searching,
truncated search)
Yes Yes Yes
Sorting (arranging
records in specific
order)
Author
Title
Issue date
Relevance
Also supports sorting as
per end user’s
requirements
Author
Title
Issue Date
Author
Title
Issue Date
Interoperability
support
OAI-PMH
Z39.50
OAI-PMH OAI-PMH

19. Comparative Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Features
GSDL DSpace EPrints
Ease of Installation Automatic installation
script is available for
installation
no automatic installation
script available
no automatic installation
script available
Operating Systems
supported
Windows
Linux
MacOS
All POSIX based OS
FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu,
Mandriva, OSX, Mac OS X,
Red Hat,
Gentoo, SLES9, Windows
Linux
Solaris
BSD
Windows
Programming Languages
used
C++
Java
Perl
Java Servlet Pages (JSP) Perl
Database Management
System
Gnu Database Manager PostgreSQL MySQL
Web Sever Apache
Internet Information
Service (IIS)
Apache Server with
Apache Tomcat Servlet
Engine
Apache Server
Multilingual Access
Support
Yes Yes Yes