Also known as dspace.org, D Space
DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. While DSpace shares some feature overlap with content management systems and document management systems, the DSpace repository software serves a specific need as a digital archives system, focused on the long-term storage, access and preservation of digital content. The optional DSpace registry lists more than three thousand repositories all over the world.
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tapor.ca →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. DSpace has an active community of developers and is used by thousands of institutions worldwide.
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DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. While DSpace shares some feature overlap with content management systems and document management systems, the DSpace repository software serves a specific need as a digital archives system, focused on the long-term storage, access and preservation of digital content. The optional DSpace registry lists more than three thousand repositories all over the world.
==History== The first public version of DSpace was released in November 2002, as a joint effort between developers from MIT and HP Labs. Following the first user group meeting in March 2004, a group of interested institutions formed the DSpace Federation, which determined the governance of future software development by adopting the Apache Foundation's community development model as well as establishing the DSpace Committer Group. In July 2007 as the DSpace user community grew larger, HP and MIT jointly formed the DSpace Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provided leadership and support. In May 2009 collaboration on related projects and growing synergies between the DSpace Foundation and the Fedora Commons organization led to the joining of the two organizations to pursue their common mission in a not-for-profit called DuraSpace. DuraSpace and LYRASIS merged in July 2019. Currently the DSpace software and user community receives leadership and guidance from LYRASIS.
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DSpace open source software is a turnkey repository application used by more than 2,000 organizations and institutions worldwide to provide durable access to digital resources. For more information, visit Backend (this codebase) provides a REST API, along with other machine-based interfaces (e.g. OAI-PMH, SWORD, etc) The REST Contract is at Frontend ( is the User Interface built on the REST API On our wiki, you may also find a list of all past releases, including their current levels of support. Documentation for each release may be viewed online or downloaded via our Documentation Wiki. Please be aware that, as a Java web application, DSpace requires a database (PostgreSQL) and a servlet container (usually Tomcat) in order to function. More information about these and all other prerequisites can be found in the Installation instructions above. NOTE: At this time, we do not have production-ready Docker images for DSpace. That said, we do have quick-start Docker Compose scripts for development or testing purposes. See our Contributing guidelines for general tips on contributing back to DSpace. DSpace provides public mailing lists where you can post questions or raise topics for discussion. We welcome everyone to participate in these lists: [email protected] : General discussion about DSpace platform, announcements, sharing of best practices [email protected] : Technical support mailing list. See also our guide for How to troubleshoot an error. [email protected] : Developers / Development mailing list DSpace also has an active service provider network. If you'd rather hire a service provider to install, upgrade, customize, or host DSpace, then we recommend getting in touch with one of our Registered Service Providers. By default, in DSpace, Unit Tests and Integration Tests are disabled. However, they are run automatically by GitHub Actions for all Pull Requests and code commits. DSpace source code is freely available under a standard BSD 3-Clause license. The full license is available in the LICENSE file or online at DSpace uses third-party libraries which may be distributed under different licenses. Those licenses are listed in the LICENSES THIRD PARTY file.
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