Dspace system for establishing and managing digital repository

The Dspace system is an open source system for managing digital resources in its various forms (text, audio, and visual). The system collects, organizes, saves, indexes, and retrieves them.







What is Dspace?

It is a system for building a digital repository for an organization or institution to preserve, organize, encode and retrieve its intellectual production, which is in the digital format. The largest open source system used in the world to build digital repository, according to Open DOAR organization statistics of vessels Audio-visual and digital.

Publishing Digital Content

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.



Main Features


Easy to Customize. Asia LIs are DSpace experts can customize your repository by modifying existing functionality or creating entirely new features

Completely customizable to fit user needs



Open Source

Free open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content



Multi Format

Manage and preserve all format of digital content (PDF,Word, JPEG, MPEG, TIFF files)



Technical Support

We provide support, installation, maintenance, development and data transfer services in the Koha system in its latest versions



Dspace Functions and Capabilities

  • Model digital content organization
  • Support metadata standards behind or behind data (during and after digital filing).
  • Create a database for E-Person and Groups
  • Reliability
  • Understanding digital filing and workflow of the system
  • Supporting workflow steps with great accuracy and flexibility (filing for digital content)
  • Supervision and cooperation
  • Handling processors for digital content Handles
  • Support long-term storage and digital storage
  • Allow search and browse for digital content
  • Support for OAI Free Access Initiatives
  • Support for open links URL
  • Support the ability to approve the license during the digital filing of content
  • The possibility of import and export (displacement) of digital content





Dspace Technology

DSpace is constructed with Java web applications, many programs, and an associated metadata store. The web applications provide interfaces for administration, deposit, ingest, search, and access. The asset store is maintained on a file system or similar storage system. The metadata, including access and configuration information, is stored in a relational database and supports the use of PostgreSQL and Oracle database. DSpace holdings are made available primarily via a web interface. More recent versions of DSpace also support faceted search and browse functionality using Apache Solr.