Eprints Digital Library Software

Bandao, Sonia Noami S. Wakat, Norlyn L.

HISTORY EARLY 2000- EPrints series began NOVEMBER 2000- EPrints 1.0 was released with OAI 0.2

support. 24TH JANUARY 2007- eprints version 3 was officially released

and was described by its developers as a major leap forward in functionality, giving more control and flexibility to repository managers, depositories, researchers and technical administrators.

APRIL 2008- current version of eprints is 3.0.5 was released.

Eprints has been developed at the university of Southampton School of electronics and computer science.

When first version of Eprints was released it became the first and one of the most widely used free open access, institutional repository software for archiving preprints and post of faculty members.

EPRINTS-is a significant milestone towards ideal repository software.-Is a free and open source software for building open access repositories that are compliant with the open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

-primarily used by many organizations for building institutional repositories.

-repository software has been developed to address the growing demands on repositories to accommodate a wider variety objects and metadata, to integrate with a wider range of services and applications and to support higher deposit rates to serve the needs of the whole institution.

DOCUMENT TYPES THAT CAN BE ADDED IN THE SOFTWARE

-eprints supports to add the following document types in the repository:

ARTICLE- an article in a journal, magazine, newspaper.

BOOK SECTION- a chapter or section in a book. CONFERENCE OR WORKSHOP ITEM- a paper, poster,

speech , lecture, or presentation given at a conference, workshop or other event.

BOOK- conference volume

MONOGRAPH- this may be a technical report ,project report, documentation, manual, working paper or discussion paper.

PATENT- a published patents

THESIS- or dissertation ARTEFACT- an artist’s artefact or work product.

SHOW/EXHIBITION- site specific performance-based deposit

COMPOSITION- a musical composition

PERFORMANCE- performance of a musical event

IMAGE- a digital photograph or visual image VIDEO- digital video AUDIO- sound recording DATASET- a bounded collection of

quantitative data ex. Spreadsheet

EXPERIMENT- experimental data with intermediate analyses and summary results.

TEACHING RESOURCE- lecture notes, exercises, exam papers or course syllabuses

OTHER- something with in the scope of the repository, but not covered by the other categories.

The software have the capability to define the domain/scope of digital Library for whom it is intended for, and Eprints is basically intended for creating preprints/post print archives, but the current version also support adding other type of documents such as audio/video.

All text formats are by default supported by the software, but software also supports to upload JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, file formats, Adobe postscript, Adobe PDF, HTML file format, MP3, AVI, MPEG file formats.

Software checks for duplicate entries while uploading the digital documents on the basis of “Title”

Supports to upload digital objects from existing URL as well. Has a facility to acquire material from network through

authorized Eprints user. Eprints user can upload documents through his/her login area from anywhere on Internet.

Supports to import metadata from XML/PubMED and allow end user to separately upload full texts. It is easy to import metadata in Eprints if available in XML or eprints supported format.

System supports to import bulk metadata/contents. Metadata is separately imported in Eprints.

System supports to export content/metadata. While exporting metadata software supports to export individual item in the repository with following file formats:

o ASCII Citationo BibTexo Dublin Coreo DIDLo EP3 XMLo EP3 XML with Files Embedded

o EndNote o HTML Citationo METSo MODSo Open URL Content Objecto Open URL Dissertation o Open URL Journal o Refero Reference Manager o Simple Metadata

Eprints create a unique numeric ID for each document that gets added into the repository.

Software has weed out policy and it allows to put an embargo data for each item that gets added into the repository as well it has “retire document” option for every item that is added into the repository.

System supports to delete items from the repository , but does not support any cross linking of objects from one collection to other.

COMPARISON OF EPRINTS AND DSPACE

EPRINTS DSPACE

Installation -easy to set up-It is possible to chose between a source- or binary-installation. -If any installation problems are arising a comprehensive support is ensured.

-requires a little more effort-But in fact DSpace is easy to run and maintain for any experienced systems engineer.-There is no support service for the DSpace installation. But there is a detailed system documentation

Programminglanguage Perl Java

Operationsystem Both environment variants had been tested: Solaris and Linux.

Furthermore it is also possible to install Eprints2 on any computer that is running with GNU/Linux or UNIX operating system.

DSpace had been tested on Linux Suse 7.3.

In general DSpace can run on Solaris, Linux and Windows systems.

Functions -Eprints is free software which creates online archives.-It is possible to store documents in any common format that the archive administrator defined to be accepted.

-DSpace can be used for self archiving by institutions and faculties. -It provides long-term physical storage and management of digital items in a repository.

Reusage -Eprints is widespread all over the world. In August 2003 there are 72 worldwide archives running Eprints software officially listed.

-It is not reported how many archives are running DSpace software. One example of an European repository that implemented DSpace is "Erasmus University: Research Online".

Technology -Eprints uses traditional technologies and runs on pure Open Source systems: mySQL is the world's most popular open source database, recognized for its speed and reliability and Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996.-Eprints is programmed by using the script language "Perl", that is low level but powerful.

-DSpace operates with new technologies such as the Postgres database, that is more advanced than mySQL and Tomcat for jsp/java web application, that has higher performance than eprints.-Dspace supports and includes also handle server, which ensures that each document has unique and persistent URL.

Interoperability -Eprints is freely distributable and subject to the GNU General Public License. This means that its source code is open and freely modifiable by any programmer who wishes to modify it (on condition that modifications are all free and open).

-The DSpace system is freely available as open-source software. This allows to make any necessary changes to the downloaded copy. The system was designed to make adaptations for individual organisations as easy as possible.

search -Eprints allows to scan each of the metadata field types in the database by simple or advanced search. Any metadata field can be searched with fine granularity by SQL querying the database.

-DSpace offers two levels of text search: simple and advanced search. It's submission process also allows to use a qualified version of the Dublin Core metadata schema for the description of each item. These descriptions are stored in a relational database, which is used by the search engine to retrieve items.

REFERENCE:

Eprints Services.(n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.eprints.org/uk/index.php/eprints-software/

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