eSpacio-UNED - a Complete Service Repository for Digital Contents

Abstract

The institutional repository created at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain) is a project, originating, from the UNED Library computer services, that aims to provide coverage to members and academic staff at the University. The project, currently in full operation, offers a set of services for the management, preservation and access over the Internet of digital materials created by its members. Derived from these services, the purpose of the repository is the spread of the documentary funds as a tool of consultation and divulgation to researchers, scientists and educators in general. This document describes the functional and technical features of the repository, whose implementation keeps Fedora as backend application as well as Fez as Web interface. Both are freeware distributed under GPL license, making it suitable for academic environments, due to reduced costs for computer equipment and constant upgrading resulting in a permanent immunity to obsolescence. Among the features presented in this paper, there are: the visualization of multiple presentations, the dynamic transformation of the contents with subsequent adaptation to environments outside the repository and the definition of relationships between objects.

Keywords

• digital object
• Fedora
• integration of services
• epository
• reusability