Hello all, I am looking for some more informaiton about DSpace and hoping you might be able to help. I'm working on a chapter for a book about PREMIS. The chapter is about software that supports PREMIS, and there is a section about DSpace. This section was written by someone else about a year ago, and I’m not certain that the information is up-to-date. I was hoping that you could review the text and let me know if I need to make any changes. The text is below. Thank you!
DSpace is open source repository software that can import and export PREMIS version 1.0 in METS XML. Beginning with version 1.7, DSpace can import and export AIPs in PREMIS in METS format, originally created to integrate with DuraCloud. Internally DSpace does not store metadata in the PREMIS format but when DSpace users export an AIP from DSpace, some of the internal metadata is translated into PREMIS technical metadata about the files in METS wrappers. Of the PREMIS elements only object is supported (not agent, event or rights). DSpace uses a custom “PREMISCrosswalk” to read and generate PREMIS metadata. Although it isn’t packaged to be used independently from DSpace, the code is open and included in the DSpace codebase. Validation of the entire DSpace AIP (including PREMIS) occurs on export only by default, but can be configured to also validate on AIP import by using the “validate” configuration flag. Although there aren’t any explicit PREMIS-related enhancements planned, the maintainers say that they are open to this because they always looking for ways to make the software more preservation-friendly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
