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@mire strongly advocates the approach where institutions run DSpace on in-house servers. In this context, @mire provides all services to optimally support in-house developers and/or administrators. These services include installation, customization, training and operational support.
As part of the basic installation services, @mire deploys DSpace on your local servers, together with the required software packages on which DSpace relies (an Apache Tomcat application server, PostgreSQL database, ...). These installations are available on both Linux and Windows platforms.
About DSpace
DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization.
DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. And with an ever-growing community of developers, committed to continuously expanding and improving the software, each DSpace installation benefits from the next.
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In-house repository versus Hosted Solution (SaaS)
- Avoid Vendor Lock-in
Choosing an open source platform gives you the opportunity to avoid vendor lock-in. In fully hosted solutions, this advantage disappears, as you are locked in with the vendor and their customized codebase.
- Optimal use of existing in-house infrastructure
large organizations have IT departments who manage an existing server infrastructure. Having DSpace embedded within this infrastructure enables the benefits of this infrastructure, inclucing backup and redundancy management.
- Freedom to Customize
Local developers and administrators remain free to customize whatever aspect of DSpace they see fit of their in-house managed codebase. Although DSpace is easy to install and use, some degree of customization is almost always required to make it fit 100% with the workflows and needs of your institution.
- Optimal connectivity towards a local audience
Research has shown that the user base of an institutional repository is predominantly national. In order to optimally serve this audience, good local bandwidth and connectivity are paramount. Aside from using performant local servers and direct backbone access, new upcoming cloud computing solutions seem to provide true distribution and good local connectivity as well.
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