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EIAH's Experience in Localization and Customization of Dspace

Open repositories 2009 Atlanta, 18-21 May. EIAH's Experience in Localization and Customization of Dspace. Emad Khazraee Saeed Moaddeli Hamed Malek Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History. Introduction to eiah. EIAH Founded at 2007 Nonprofit Organization

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EIAH's Experience in Localization and Customization of Dspace

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  1. Open repositories 2009 Atlanta, 18-21 May EIAH's Experience in Localization and Customization of Dspace Emad Khazraee Saeed Moaddeli Hamed Malek Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History

  2. Introduction to eiah • EIAH • Founded at 2007 • Nonprofit Organization • Head director of the project: Mohammad Beheshti the Former head of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization • Sponsors • The Iranian Academy of Art • Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts & Tourism Organization • The Iranian Ministry of Housing and Urban Development • Partners • National Library & Archive of Iran • Polytechnic University of Iran • ShahidBeheshti University of Iran Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  3. Goals and objectives • EIAH Goals • Increasing the quantity and improve the quality of information on Iranian culture • Facilitating the recovery of vernacular identity • Presenting the joint heritage of the countries in the region for further interaction and focusing on cultural unity • Objectives • Providing varied types of resources • Providing eligible and accurate resources • Providing accessible resources Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  4. EIAH cake Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  5. Dspace Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  6. Digital repository: why Dspace? • Open Source software • The community around Dspace • Features • The development team behind it • Other options… Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  7. Localization • Persian translation of messages • Persian calendar • Persian user interface Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  8. Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  9. Persian localization issues • Right to left writing system (like Arabic and Hebrew) • Bi-directional text Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  10. Persian localization issues • Different characters for numbers • Different punctuation • Non-joiners Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  11. Persian calendar • Iranian calendar based on Jalali calendar • 33-year algorithm • Standard time and date representation Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  12. Persian search issues • Some Arabic characters • Joiners and non-joiners • diacritics Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  13. Recently developed:Lucene search engine • Persian language approximate search Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  14. Recently developedLinking Mediawiki and Dspace • dspaceBox extension • Uses OAI-PMH 2.0 • Stores in SQLite database • Searches on the index • Capable of searching on a federation of repositories Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  15. Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  16. Customization: EIAH metadata scheme • Application profile based on Dublin Core • Comprehensive metadata element set term Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  17. Future works • Manakin XMLUI • Implementing DC application profile based on Singapore framework • Book viewer plug-in • Preservation policy • RPM packaging Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

  18. Resources • http://eiah.org • Iranian_calendar on Wikipedia • Persian language on Wikipedia • Dublin Core Website • Open Archive initiative website • http://isiri.org ISIRI 9147 & ISIRI 6219 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

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