| dc.description.abstract | The DSpaceâ„¢ digital repository system was released as open source
software in November of 2002. In the year since then it has been adopted by a
large number of research universities and other organizations world-wide that
need a digital repository solution for a number of content types: research articles,
gray literature, e-theses, cultural materials, scientific datasets, institutional
records, educational materials, and more. The DSpace platform and its various
applications are becoming better understood with experience and time. As one
result of a recent meeting of the DSpace user community, we are now venturing
into the territory of broad, community-based open source development and
management, and gaining insights from the experience of the Apache Foundation,
Global Grid Forum, and other successful open source projects about how
to build open source software for the digital library domain. | en |
