Dspace Features

Capture, store, preserve and distribute your digital content!

Features Summary

Institutional Repository

Manage the digital content of your organization.

Access Control

Control who gets access to what resources.

Standards Compliance

Dspace stores data in the Dublic Core Metadata format.

Any Type of Digital Content

Use text, images, audio or video files.

Versioning

Store multiple versions of the same file.

Digital Preservation

Dspace is designed to prevent data loss.

Search and Retrieval

Use Basic or Advanced Search to find any digital material

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Features Detail

Institutional Repository

DSpace is used to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute digital content.

The content can be organized into categories and sub-categories. Access can be controlled at a category, sub-category or individual item level.

All the content can be searched via a single interface.

Access Control

DSpace allows contributors to limit access to items in DSpace, at both the collection and the individual item level.

Standards Compliance

Dspace stores item meta data in the Dublic Core Metadata Schema. This ensures data can be exchanged with other standards compliant system.

Any Type of Digital Content

DSpace accepts any type of digital content, including: Text, Images, Audio and Video.

Some examples of items that DSpace can accomodate are: * Documents such as articles, preprints, working papers, technical reports, conference papers
* Books
* Theses
* Data sets
* Computer programs
* Visual simulations and models

Versioning

New versions of previously submitted DSpace items can be added and linked to each other, with or without withdrawal of the older item. Multiple formats of the same content item can be submitted to DSpace, for example, a TIFF file and a GIF file of the same image.

Digital Preservation

DSpace provides long-term physical storage and management of digital items in a secure, professionally managed repository including standard operating procedures such as backup, mirroring, refreshing media, and disaster recovery.

DSpace assigns a persistent identifier to each contributed item to ensure its retrievability far into the future.

DSpace provides a mechanism for advising content contributors of the preservation support levels they can expect for the files they submit.

Search and Retrieval

Users can search for any item via a single interface. An Advanced Search tool is also available. New additions to the repository are instantly available via the Search screens. .