Original author(s) | MIT and HP Labs |
---|---|
Developer(s) | DuraSpace (parent organization: Lyrasis[1]) |
Initial release | November 2002 |
Stable release | 8.0[2]
/ 21 June 2024 |
Repository | https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace |
Written in | Java |
Type | Institutional repository software |
License | BSD licence |
Website | duraspace |
DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. While DSpace shares some feature overlap with content management systems and document management systems, the DSpace repository software serves a specific need as a digital archives system, focused on the long-term storage, access and preservation of digital content. The optional DSpace registry lists almost three thousand repositories all over the world.[3]