Requirements for Management & Storage to support complex objects & ORE in DSpace

Abstract

Nowadays, most of the institutional repositories make use of open source repository software like DSpace, Eprints or Fedora. If libraries want to successfully use OAIORE to create world‐wide networks of aggregations, the first requirement is that the architecture of the repository software is compliant with OAI‐ORE. Utrecht University Library makes use of DSpace. To investigate what should be done to make OAI‐ORE support possible, we carried out a research on a small scale. As a reference point for currently available functionality DSpace 1.4.x / 1.5 is used.