DSpace is the most widely-used repository solution in the world. It is the software of choice for academic, research, cultural, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It allows you to capture, store, index, preserve and distribute your digital material including text, video, audio and data.
DSpace provides a way to manage your materials and publications to give them greater visibility and accessibility over time. It facilitates the capture and ingest of digital objects, including metadata, provides easy discovery and access, both by browsing and searching, and guarantees long-term preservation.
4Science is strongly involved with DSpace as a Certified Partner and a successful Service Provider serving more than 50 institutions with DSpace(-CRIS/GLAM), and a major active contributor to the community since 2003. We have with a major role in developing DSpace 7 , with over 5,000 hours of software development & coordination tasks in all WGs (Angular UI, REST API – including lead of sub-team, Entities). We also serve the community with two DSpace Committers (since 2006), participation in the Leadership and the Steering groups, and other roles in community initiatives and promotion of DSpace.
We are the creators and maintainers of DSpace-CRIS, DSpace-GLAM, RDM solutions based on DSpace (CKAN integration), add-on modules to enhance the functionality of repositories and digital libraries based on DSpace: IIIF Image Viewer, PDF Document Viewer, OCR & Transcription, Video / Audio Streaming.