Comparing Open Source Digital Library Software
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چکیده
The last years a great number of digital library and digital repository systems have been developed by individual organizations -mostly Universitiesand given to the public as open-source software. The advantage of having many choices becomes a great headache when selecting a Digital Library (DL) system for a specific organization. To make the decision easier, we compared five such systems that are publicly available using an open source license, are compliant with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH) [1] and already have a number of installations worldwide. Using these basic restrictions we selected for comparison the following five (5) broadly used DL systems:
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