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| Article Name : | | | DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARE DSPACE AND GREENSTONE3: A STUDY OF FEATURES AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS | | Author Name : | | | Devendra B. Patel , Pravin I. Patel , Haresh A.Patel and Bipin A. Patel | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-233 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | Greenstone and DSpace are both designed to help third parties set up their own digital libraries. However, they
represent rather different perspectives and have different, and in many ways complementary, goals and strengths. One goal
they share is to be flexible, and both can be customized and modified at many different levels – including the programming
level, since they are open source systems. This gives the ultimate flexibility and yields significant advantages over closedsource
systems. Of course, this very flexibility makes fair comparison tricky.
This article has compared and contrasted the two systems' goals in terms of the core business that they aim to
support, and compared their features in terms of their natural domain of operation. A crude caricature of the difference is that
Greenstone supports individually designed collections of different kinds of documents and metadata in an international
setting – epitomized by completely static collections on CD-ROM or DVD – whereas DSpace supports institutions in their
struggle to capture and disseminate the intellectual output of an institution and preserve it indefinitely – epitomized by its use
by MIT Libraries, who helped pioneer its development. However, each system is highly flexible and customizable to meet a
wide variety of needs. | | Keywords : | | - digital library
- software
- characteristics
- future
- dspace
- grenstone
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