Comparison ofEPrints 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

Item metadata

Item metadata

Item metadata

Item metadata

Formats

• Metadata are stored in qualified Dublin Core format

• Internal set of metadata fields

• Metadata fields depend on document type

• Any file format can be stored

• Metadata can be exported in variety of formats

User roles

•Search•Browse•Subscribe

•Workarea•Upload•Submit

•Accept•Reject•Remove

•Profiles•Items

Users/G

roups .

Depositors

Administrators

Subscribers

Special permissions

User

Submission

User

Editor

Live archive

ABC

External Usage

Simple Search Bar

Advanced Search Form

Context Help

Button

Browsing by Subjects

External Usage

Simple Search Bar

Advanced Search Form

Browsing by Subjects

Installation and Prerequisites

• Unix-like OS• Apache Tomcat or eq.• PostgreSQL or Oracle• Java

• Unix-like OS• Apache• MySQL• Perl

workday

Multilingualism

• One file• Localization with

patches

• Three file groups• Localizable architecture

No metadata multilingualism for both

Multilingual interface

In Russia and Ukraine• http://dspace.lib.usu.ru• https://elib.krasu.ru• 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/

• http://eprints.ksame.kharkov.ua/

• eprints.isofts.kiev.ua