Building Digital Library using DSpace: Case Study of GIPE’s Dhananjayarao Gadgil Digital Library
Abstract
Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) has started buildingup the digital library collections by scanning its valuable rare books during July 2011. The GIPE’s digital libraryuses open source software DSpace for building its digital repository. Currently, repository holds more than7500 digital documents. These documents are available to all the scholars across the world. The present paperdiscusses the methodology adapted for its digital library building. The various processes involved were:Identification of the vendor, identifying the documents to be scanned or digitised, overall work flow, preparationof the metadata in excel, converting the data into Dublin Core XML format and then finally uploading themetadata into DSpace server. Unique feature of this digital library is the bulk upload of the metadata along withdigital data files of all the digital documents.
http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.32.5.2651
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