MyCoRe
Developer(s) | MyCoRe Team |
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Initial release | 2001 |
Stable release | 2023.06[1] / 22 December 2023 |
Repository | |
Written in | Java, JavaScript, XSLT |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Available in | german |
Type | Institutional repository software, Disciplinary repository software, digital library |
License | GPL |
Website | www.mycore.org |
MyCoRe (portmanteau of My Content Repository) is an open source repository software framework for building disciplinary or institutional repositories, digital archives, digital libraries, and scientific journals.[2][3][4][5] The software is developed at various German university libraries and computer centers. Although most MyCoRe web applications are located in Germany, there are English-language applications, such as "The International Treasury of Islamic Manuscripts" at the University of Cambridge (UK).[6]
History
[edit]The first public version of MyCoRe was released in October 2001.[7] Since then the software was developed by the MyCoRe team.[8] The software became known as "Institutional Repository Software" as declared on the site of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.[9] In Germany there are more than 20 Universities and institutions that provide over 70 repositories based on MyCoRe.[10]
Technology
[edit]The MyCoRe framework was written in Java and XML. It is available as free software under GNU General Public License (GPL).
Features
[edit]Some important features of MyCoRe are as follows.
- Free and open-source software
- Customizable user interface
- Configurable metadata model: The Metadata Object Description Schema is the default metadata format within the MyCoRe sample application "MIR". Any other metadata format can be configured.
- Classifications can be edited or imported, as standard (e.g. DDC), in flat or hierarchical structure.
- Roles and rights are configurable
- There is an internal file system integrated in the MyCoRe framework.
- MyCoRe uses Checksum to ensure data integrity.
- All types of digital content, file formats and mime types can be assembled, managed, preserved and presented.
- An image viewer is integrated for presenting high-resolution digitized images in Web browser.
- MyCoRe supports common interoperability standards and interfaces such as the OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol or SWORD.
- MyCoRe provides an integrated Web content management system (WCMS) for editing static website content.
- Local or external authentication mechanisms can be used.
- A detailed rights and role concept allows to manage the access to data and metadata.
- MyCoRe provides a ready to install sample repository called MIR, which a system administrator can install on a single Linux, Mac OSX or Windows box to get started.[11]
Operating Systems
[edit]MyCoRe software runs on Linux, Solaris, Unix, or Windows.
See also
[edit]- Digital library
- DSpace Repository Software
- Institutional repository
- Fedora Repository Software
- Opus Software
- SWORD
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.mycore.de/site/download/dl_mycore/release/. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
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(help) - ^ Barve, Sunita; Dahibhate, N.B. (September 2012). "Open Source Software for Library Services". DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology. 32 (5): 404. doi:10.14429/djlit.32.5.2649.
- ^ Singh, Ajay Pratap; Shukla, Pooja (November 2012). "Strategies and Issues of Institutional Repositories: An Indian Scenario". In Ashraf, Tariq; Gulati, Puja Anand (eds.). Design, Development, and Management of Resources for Digital Library Services [Advances in Library and Information Science]. IGI Global. p. 187. ISBN 9781466625013.
- ^ Barve, Sunita (24 April 2012). An evaluation of open source software for building digital libraries (Thesis). Shodhganga : a reservoir of Indian theses @ INFLIBNET. hdl:10603/3731.
- ^ Munshi, Usha Mujoo (March 2009). "Building Subject Gateway in a Shifting Digital World". DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology. 29 (2): 10. doi:10.14429/djlit.29.236.
- ^ "The International Treasury of Islamic Manuscripts". Retrieved 2016-02-08.
- ^ See www.mycore.de in the Internet Archive: "way back machine". Archived from the original on 2001-10-27. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "The MyCoRe team". Retrieved 2021-03-23.
- ^ Open Society Institute (August 2004). A Guide to Institutional Repository Software (Report) (3rd ed.). Budapest Open Access Initiative. p. 13f. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
- ^ List of "web applications based on MyCoRe". Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ^ The MyCoRe official website: "www.mycore.org". Retrieved 2020-01-27.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- MyCoRe sample application: MIR (demonstration site)
- MyCoRe datasheet (PDF)
- The International Treasury of Islamic Manuscripts (MyCoRe web application)