3. Working with DSpace
There are a number of software options available when setting up an IR and different
institutions have chosen different options in relation to the function that their IR will
perform. At Loughborough, we wanted an open source solution and DSpace, the open source repository software developed by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and Hewlett-Packard (http://dspace.org/), was chosen above
EPrints (http://www.eprints.org/ ) and Fedora (http://www.fedora.info/) because it had
a good web interface and the ability to manage various file formats: this related well
to the fact that we were looking at developing a ‘blended’ repository.