Top 5 Free & Open-Source Software for Digital Libraries

1.      Dpace (http://www.dspace.org/)

DSpace open source software is a turnkey repository application used by more than 1000+ organizations and institutions worldwide to provide durable access to digital resources.

DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories.  It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. DSpace built in JAVA technology and run on tomcat server.

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2.      Eprint (http://www.eprints.org/)

EPrints is a free and open-source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It shares many of the features commonly seen in document management systems, but is primarily used for institutional repositories and scientific journals. EPrints has been developed at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science and released under a GPL license. EPrint uses the PERL Language and goes well with LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl) configuration.

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3.      GreenStone (http://www.greenstone.org/)

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Factsheet for more information.

Here are some organizations using Green Stone

African Digital Library Support Network
Greenstone support for South Asia
Grupo de Usuarios Greenstone de Latinoamérica
Lista De Usuários de Língua Portuguesa do Greenstone
Blog de la communauté francophone
Liste de diffusion de la communauté francophone
برنامج Greenstone للمكتبة الرقمية

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4.      Invenio (http://invenio-software.org/)

Invenio is a free software suite enabling you to run your own digital library or document repository on the web. The technology offered by the software covers all aspects of digital library management from document ingestion through classification, indexing, and curation to dissemination. Invenio complies with standards such as the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses ​MARC 21 as its underlying bibliographic format. The flexibility and performance of Invenio make it a comprehensive solution for management of document repositories of moderate to large sizes (several millions of records).

5.      FedoraCommons (http://www.fedora-commons.org/)

Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) was originally developed by researchers at Cornell University as an architecture for storing, managing, and accessing digital content in the form of digital objects inspired by the Kahn and Wilensky Framework. Fedora defines a set of abstractions for expressing digital objects, asserting relationships among digital objects, and linking "behaviors" (i.e., services) to digital objects.

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