Need Info.

[Pragnya Parimita Thakur]

What are the difference between DL s/w and IR s/w ?

[RAMESH PARICHI]

The software are almost same. The IR software offer a functionality for digitisation or for digital libraries too.

The software is integrated one with all the functions useful for the library operations.

For example DSpace is an open source repository software which has a functionality for digital archives.

there exists technical differences between IR and Digital libraries in their implementation and functions but where as the software modules are created for having both functions

Digital Commons, eprints, green stone, fedora commons and Dspace are both IR and digital softwares

[Pragnya Parimita Thakur]

Thank you so much for the info. Is this possible to  provide some source to know more about IR and DL s/w. ?

[RAMESH PARICHI]

1. Greenstone Digital Library software developed by New Zealand Digital Library Project, University of Waikato;

http://www.greenstone.org/

2. ARNO ; Academic Research in the Netherlands Online, Tilburg
University, The Netherlands;  http://www.uba.uva.nl/arno

3. CDSware ; CERN Document Server Software (CDSware), CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland
http://cdsware.cern.ch

4. DSpace ; MIT Libraries, Cambridge, MA USA
http://www.dspace.org/

5. Eprints University of Southampton, U.K.
http://software.eprints.org/

6. Fedora digital object repository management
system;  University of Virginia, USA
http://www.fedora.info/

7. i-Tor ; Tools and technologies for Open Repositories, Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services
http://www.i-tor.org/en/toon

8. MyCoRe; Essen University Library, University of Duisburg-
Essen,Germany
http://www.mycore.de/engl/index.html

[Pragnya Parimita Thakur]

Thank You RAMESH PARICHI Sir...its awesome :)

[RAMESH PARICHI]

ARNO, CDSware, DSpace, Fedora, ITor, MyCore are also IR software

EPrints  and DSpace are more widely used today internationally