CDSware (CERN Document Server Software)

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to describe CDSware (CERN Document Server Software), a software developed at CERN.

Design/methodology/approach

CDSware supports the creation of electronic preprint servers, Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) and document systems on the web. It complies with the OAI‐PMH (Open Archive Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) and uses MARC 21 as its underlying bibliographic standard. It is open source software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Findings

CDSware has been created for the handling of large repositories including various types of materials, like descriptions of museum objects, collections of confidential or public documents, etc.

Practical implications

All technical details of the software are described to enable comparison with all other open source software for managing and bibliographic organization of digitized context.

Originality/value

The paper presents a detailed description of highly (technically and bibliographically) developed software in order to help libraries in deciding which open source software is more suitable for their digitization project.

Citation

Sitas, A. (2006), "CDSware (CERN Document Server Software)", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 420-429. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830610692172