Digital Library Software

 Open Source Digital Library Software

• DSpace

                DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories.  It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets.  And with an ever-growing community of developers, committed  to continuously expanding and improving the software

http://www.dspace.org

• Eprints 

    The primary purpose of the E-Prints software is to help create open access to the peer-reviewed research output of all scholarly and scientific research institutions. The default configuration creates a research papers archive, but could be used for other purposes.

http://www.eprints.org

• Fedora 

              Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora) is a toolkit to build a digital object repository management system. The system, designed to be a foundation upon which interoperable web-based digital libraries, institutional repositories and other information management systems can. be built, demonstrates how distributed digital library architecture can be deployed using web-based technologies, including XML and Web services. The interface to the system consists of three open APIs that are exposed as web services.

http://fedora-commons.org

• Greenstone

                Greenstone is  a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. it provides anew way of organizing information and publishing it on the Intenet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed  and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

http://www.greenstone.org