The encyclopedia of Iranian architectural history was established with the goal of increasing the accessibility of the widespread resources and documents related to Iranian architectural history and to provide a better and more productive space for collaboration of researchers and scholars, enabling them to expand and improve this encyclopedia. The Infrastructure which is designed is a three level structure. We have a knowledge representation level on the top, an ontology of Iranian architectural history, a conceptual model designed for this specific area of study and The middle level is the mediator level which is responsible for establishing the relation between concepts and documents and enhancing search and semantic interoperability and The underlying level is a digital repository; a localized and customized version of Dspace institutional repository. The main changes that we made to Dspace was implementing the Persian calendar (a.k.a Jalali calendar) and fixing the correct representation of Persian numerals. We've also translated all the messages into Persian and changed the JSPUI for a correct view of page containing right-to-left text. A team of librarians in EIAH reviewed the work-flows and based on their feedback, some changes are made to the way the metadata appears for each item and the way work-flows progress. Using our EIAH Metadata standards we have our own Application Profile based on Dublin Core embedded in Dspace for describing the documents available in the history of Iranian architecture. Our Development plan for Dspace includes: A book viewer A customized search engine (lucene based) Federated search on multiple Dspace installations in national cultural heritage centers Establishing a connection between Semantic Mediawiki and Dspace through OAI-PMH Thumbnail generator for different text document formats Packaging Dspace for Redhat based systems Development of our Application profile based on Singapore framework for DCAP. ----- 4th International Conference on Open Repositories This presentation was part of the session : DSpace User Group Presentations Date: 2009-05-21 08:30 AM – 10:00 AM Authors: Moaddeli, Saeed; Khazraee, Emad; Malek, Hamed

1. EIAH's Experience in Localization and Customization of Dspace Open repositories 2009 Atlanta, 18-21 May EmadKhazraee SaeedMoaddeli HamedMalek Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History

2. Introduction to eiah EIAH Founded at 2007 Nonprofit Organization Head director of the project: Mohammad Beheshti the Former head of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization Sponsors The Iranian Academy of Art Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts & Tourism Organization The Iranian Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Partners National Library & Archive of Iran Polytechnic University of Iran ShahidBeheshti University of Iran 21 May 2009 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta 2

3. Goals and objectives EIAH Goals Increasing the quantity and improve the quality of information on Iranian culture Facilitating the recovery of vernacular identity Presenting the joint heritage of the countries in the region for further interaction and focusing on cultural unity Objectives Providing varied types of resources Providing eligible and accurate resources Providing accessible resources 21 May 2009 3 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

4. EIAH cake 21 May 2009 4 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

5. Dspace 21 May 2009 5 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

6. Digital repository: why Dspace? Open Source software The community around Dspace Features The development team behind it Other options… 21 May 2009 6 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

7. Localization Persian translation of messages Persian calendar Persian user interface 21 May 2009 7 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

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9. Persian localization issues Right to left writing system (like Arabic and Hebrew) Bi-directional text 21 May 2009 9 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

10. Persian localization issues Different characters for numbers Different punctuation Non-joiners 21 May 2009 10 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

11. Persian calendar Iranian calendar based on Jalali calendar 33-year algorithm Standard time and date representation 21 May 2009 11 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

12. Persian search issues Some Arabic characters Joiners and non-joiners diacritics 21 May 2009 12 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

13. Recently developed:Lucene search engine Persian language approximate search 21 May 2009 13 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

14. Recently developedLinking Mediawiki and Dspace dspaceBox extension Uses OAI-PMH 2.0 Stores in SQLite database Searches on the index Capable of searching on a federation of repositories 21 May 2009 14 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

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16. Customization: EIAH metadata scheme Application profile based on Dublin Core Comprehensive metadata element set 21 May 2009 16 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta term

17. Future works Manakin XMLUI Implementing DC application profile based on Singapore framework Book viewer plug-in Preservation policy RPM packaging 21 May 2009 17 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

18. Resources http://eiah.org Iranian_calendar on Wikipedia Persian language on Wikipedia Dublin Core Website Open Archive initiative website http://isiri.org ISIRI 9147 & ISIRI 6219 21 May 2009 18 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta