DSpace

Product to embed a DSpace repository within a Plone site.

Project Description

This is a product that enables the user to connect to the default DSpace application. This application is a digital repository for articles, books, courseware, journals, websites and thesis material developed by the DSpace open source community (http://www.dspace.org/).

This DSpace application is developed within the Java and Tomcat framework. The interface created is used to query and submit digital content. The system updates the back-end database which is a Postgres SQL database.

The default DSPace interface itself is difficult for querying content hence, the creation of a 'Plone DSpace' portal that can be used explicitly to query the Postgress SQL database directly. This database itself is explicitly updated directly by the DSpace java based application though.

Within a 'Plone site', the 'Plone DSpace'product can be used to create multiple 'DSpaceInstance' folderish content types. Each 'DSpaceInstance' is a connection object to a separate DSpace repository eg. one repository could be purely Journals, another could be purely for courseware and so on. The DSpace plone product has a standard set of search facilities that work much better than the Java based DSpace interface.

Current Release

No stable release available yet.