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MyCoRe

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MyCoRe
Developer(s)MyCoRe Team
Initial release2001 (2001)
Stable release
2023.06[1] / 22 December 2023; 11 months ago (22 December 2023)
Repository
Written inJava, JavaScript, XSLT
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inGerman
TypeInstitutional repository, disciplinary repository, digital library
LicenseGPL
Websitewww.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

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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

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The MyCoRe framework was written in Java and XML. It is available as free software under GNU General Public License (GPL).

Features

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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

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MyCoRe software runs on Linux, Solaris, Unix, or Windows.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://www.mycore.de/site/download/dl_mycore/release/. Retrieved 12 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "The International Treasury of Islamic Manuscripts". Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  7. ^ See www.mycore.de in the Internet Archive: "way back machine". Archived from the original on 2001-10-27. Retrieved 2016-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ "The MyCoRe team". Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  9. ^ Open Society Institute (August 2004). A Guide to Institutional Repository Software (Report) (3rd ed.). Budapest Open Access Initiative. p. 13f. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  10. ^ List of "web applications based on MyCoRe". Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  11. ^ The MyCoRe official website: "www.mycore.org". Retrieved 2020-01-27.


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