Comparison of EPrints 3.0 and DSpace 1.4.

1 digital library systems

Kuzma Kudim, Galina Proskudina

Why?
Reliable storage

Easy access

Open source

Most popular

Digital Library System

Database Web interface Searching and browsing Authorization Email notifications Metadata harvesting

Data Model
Dspace Site
Institute of Software Systems
Division of Computer Calculations
Reports Conference publications

HTML document HTML file (text) Related image file

Item Item Item metadata Item metadata metadata metadata

Formats
Any file format can be stored

Metadata are stored in Internal set of metadata qualified Dublin Core fields format Metadata fields depend on document type

Metadata can be exported in variety of formats

User roles
Depositors Administrators Subscribers Special permissions
Profiles Items Accept Reject Remove

Users/Groups .

Collection

Workarea Upload Submit

Search Browse Subscribe

Submission
User
A B C

User

Editor

Live archive

External Usage
Advanced Search Form Simple Search Bar Context Help Button

Browsing by Subjects

External Usage
Advanced Search Form Simple Search Bar

Browsing by Subjects

Installation and Prerequisites

workday
Unix-like OS Apache Tomcat or eq. PostgreSQL or Oracle Java Unix-like OS Apache MySQL Perl

Multilingualism
Multilingual interface One file Localization with patches Three file groups Localizable architecture

No metadata multilingualism for both

In Russia and Ukraine

http://dspace.lib.usu.ru http://eprints.ksame. kharkov.ua/ https://elib.krasu.ru eprints.isofts.kiev.ua www.e-archive.org.ua dspace.ucu.edu.ua repository.ibss.org.ua/dspace http://www.dspace.humanities .org.ua/dspace http://www.library.ukma.kiev.ua /dspace http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua:8080/ dspace/