Abstract:
This article describes the Implementation of Institutional Repository using Dspace
Software at the University of Peradeniya. This IR is aimed to give access to research
scholarly articles to the Institution’s researcher and to make the visibility of the University
of Peradeniya researcher. It also gives access to University database and more
importantly some of the logical approach is made in different collections and
communities. This article also explains the hard and software requirements provided
along with information about the open source software. This article provides evidence
on how the University of Peradeniya IR was built from scratch and how various different
types of collection with many forms and file formats can be uploaded using Dspace
software. Huge amounts of problems were faced during the installation and
customization of metadata forms for different collections using Dublin core metadata
fields. Dspace permits workflow, customization and community/collection based content
and submission by different user communities. This paper helps in planning to build an
IR and also helps the beginners in getting an idea of how different file formats can be used
for different collections in order to maintain uniformity.
