DSpace Features
DSpace at MIT lets you save, share, and search research data in
an institutional repository. This page outlines the features the
service provides.
MIT's Institutional Repository
DSpace is organized to accommodate the multidisciplinary and organizational
needs of a large institution. DSpace provides access to the digital
work of the whole Institute through one interface. DSpace is organized
into Communities, Sub-Communities, and Collections, each of which
retains its identity within the repository.
Customization for DSpace communities and collections allows for
flexibility in determining policies and workflow.
Digital Formats and Content Types Supported DSpace
accepts all manner of digital formats. Some examples of items that
DSpace can accommodate are:
- Documents, such as articles, preprints, working papers, technical
reports, conference papers
- Books
- Theses
- Data sets
- Computer programs
- Visualizations, simulations, and other models
- Multimedia publications
- Books
- Bibliographic datasets
- Images
- Audio files
- Video files
- Learning objects
- Web pages
Digital Preservation
- DSpace provides long-term physical storage and management of
digital items in a secure, professionally managed repository including
standard operating procedures such as backup, mirroring, refreshing
media, and disaster recovery.
- DSpace assigns a persistent identifier to each contributed item
to ensure it is retrievable far into the future.
- DSpace provides a mechanism for advising content contributors
of the preservation support levels they can expect for the files
they submit.
Access Control
The DSpace software allows contributors to limit access to items
in DSpace — at the collection and the individual item level.
See MIT's policies governing access.
Search and Retrieval
The DSpace submission process allows for the description of each
item using a qualified version of the Dublin Core metadata schema.
These descriptions are entered into a relational database, which
is used by the search engine to retrieve items.
Open Source Software
The DSpace open source platform is freely
available at SourceForge through the BSD license. Institutions
around the world use DSpace to store their digital research materials.
Visit the DSpace Wiki to
see which institutions are running DSpace services.
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