Digital Library Management System in the Context of OSS - Anil Mishra

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DIGITAL LIBRARY MANAGEMENTSYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF OPENSOURCE SOFTWARE


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Introduction

Digital library management system is a software system thatprovides preservation, organization and dissemination services fordigital collections. Greenstone and Dspace are widely used softwaresystems for digital libraries. The Present article discusses about the

digital library. The rapid changes in digital library developments arepervasive. The Open Source based software development modelprovides industry, government, and academia with significantopportunities to leverage. This paper deals with the concept ofOpen Source Software. It gives advantages of digital library. Itexplains the Role of OSS in learning and teaching. It Provides that

how to choose an Open Source library. It will also provide popularopen source software for digital library in India.


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What is Digital Library?

Definitions

A digital library contains digital representations of the objects found in it - mostunderstanding of the "DL" probably also assumes that it will be accessible via theInternet, though not necessarily to everyone. But the idea of digitization is perhapsthe only characteristic of a digital library on which there is universal agreement.

Digital Library a collection of material organized to provide physical, bibliographical,and intellectual access to a target group with a staff that is trained to provide servicesand programs related to the information needs of the target group"

We can say that:

An informal definition of a digital library is a managed collection of

information, with associated services, where the information is stored indigital formats and accessible over a network


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Advantages Of DigitalLibraryA major advantage of digital libraries is

that people from all over the world cangain access to the information at anytime .

v No physical boundary

v Round the clock availability

v

Multiple accessesv Information retrieval

v Preservation and conservation


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What is Open Source?

More precisely, it refers to four kinds offreedom, for the users of the software:

The freedom to run the program, for anypurpose,

The freedom to study how the programworks, and adapt it to users needs

Access to the source code is a preconditionfor this.

The freedom to redistribute copies so one canhelp another.

The freedom to improve the program, andrelease the improvements to the public, so


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Role of Open Source Software (OSS) inLearning and Teaching

The Absence of license fees: Most ofthe times institutes pay a plenty of amountof softwares companies to use theirproducts but open source are license free.

Flexibility: OSS are flexible they are easyto customized and free modules and otherfeatures are also imported through the

community.

Service Community: Forums are thenetworks of people who share their

experiences and also come up with


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Why and how to chooseOpen Source?

Open source means the software codeis available to users and developers, withfew restrictions on usage, modification or

distribution. Open Source Software iswidely deployed by corporations andgovernments for robust applications inbusiness, education and science.

Extensibility

Low cost


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Popular Open Source Software forDigital Library in India

DSpace

Why DSpace?

Dspace is an open source technology platform which can becustomized or extend its capabilities.

Dspace is a service model for open access and/or digitalarchiving for perpetual access.

Dspace is a platform to build an Institutional Repository* and

the collections are searchable and retrievable by the Web.

To make available institution-based scholarly material indigital formats. The collections will be open and interoperable.
http://www.dspace.org/http://www.dspace.org/


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FEDORA

The fedora is based on the flexible extensible Digital objectand Repository Architecture (FEDORA). It can be used todevelop institutional repositories and other interoperable web-based digital libraries and the system implements the fedoraarchitecture, adding utilities that facilitate repositorymanagement. It has been developed by the university ofVirginia and Cornell University.

Characteristics of Fedora

Preservation

Metadata

Access

Popular Open Source Software for DigitalLibrary in India


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EPRINTEPrints Open Source Software is aplatform for building repositories of

research literature, scientific data, studenttheses, project reports, multimediaartefacts, teaching materials, scholarlycollections, digitised records, exhibitions

and performances.EPrints is free software developed by the

University of Southampton, England.

EPrints is the most flexible platform forbuildin hi h ualit hi h value


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KOHA 2.2

Koha version 2.2 is a free/libre open source

integrated library system (ILS) forautomating a lending library. It has all ofthe basic features needed to run a library, handling:

an online public access catalogue (OPAC) of the library's

holdings;a database of library users;

issuing books to borrowers and returning books to thecollection;

borrower requests for library items;


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GREENSTONE

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing

digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizinginformation and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM.Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project atthe University of Waikato, and developed and distributed incooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source,multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General

Public License.

WHY LIBRARIES NEEDS OPEN SOURCE

Severe budget cuts.Increased demand for services.
http://www.nzdl.org/http://www.waikato.ac.nz/http://www.unesco.org/http://humaninfo.org/http://www.greenstone.org/#multilingual%23multilingualhttp://www.greenstone.org/#multilingual%23multilingualhttp://humaninfo.org/http://www.unesco.org/http://www.waikato.ac.nz/http://www.nzdl.org/


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Conclusion

Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative work tohelp each other, they are not the same thing. The Free SoftwareFoundation uses a specific license and provides software under thatlicense. The Open Source Initiative seeks support for all open sourcelicenses, including the one from the Free Software Foundation. Theseinitiatives have much potential for libraries and information centersand there are numbers projects, including Koha, Greenstone,Dspace, Fedora etc.Collections may be built and served locally fromthe users own web server, or remotely on a shared digital libraryhost. Open Source essentially empowers less privileged communitiesthough it does not follow that it is meant only for them. There is nodenying the fact that OSS enables bridging the digital divide in moreways than one. Libraries in the developing countries are able tosupport electronic access, digital libraries.


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