Douglas Gorton, Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox. Specification and Generation of Digital Libraries into DSpace Using the 5S Framework. In László Kovács, Norbert Fuhr, Carlo Meghini, editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 11th European Conference, ECDL 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 16-21, 2007, Proceedings. Volume 4675 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 567-569, Springer, 2007. [doi]
While digital library (DL) systems continue to become more powerful and usable, a certain amount of inherent complexity remains in the installation, configuration, and customization of out-of-the-box solutions like DSpace and Greenstone. In this work, we build upon past work in the 5S Framework for Digital Libraries and 5SL DL specification language to devise an XML-based model for the specification of DLs for DSpace. We pair this way of specifying DLs with a generator tool which takes a DL specification that adheres to the model and generates a working DSpace instance that matches the specification.