Thread:Support/Adding DSpace

DSpace is a mature open source project originally created by HP and MIT back in 2002, now supported by a non-profit Duraspace. It is a web based platform for institutional repositories, used by academic, non profit and corporate institutions to provide (open) access to hosted content.

Some examples: http://dash.harvard.edu http://openknowledge.worldbank.org

We became interested through the website and when chatting with your contributors, who advised us to answer the following six questions as part of the request to be added as a project. We would like to enter a dialogue to see if we could get adopted and what that would entail exactly.

1) is your code open source?

Yes, the license files can be found on: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace

2) is your development active currently and to the foreseeable future?

Yes, DSpace is being actively developed under a time based release schedule. The draft of the release notes for our next major release end of 2013 can be found at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+4.0+Notes

3) what file formats do you use?

DSpace has two user interfaces, one based on JSP and one based on Apache Cocoon. The JSP User Interface uses Java properties: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-api-lang/tree/master/src/main/resources

The Apache Cocoon based interface uses an XML format, the standard Cocoon Catalog/Dictionary format described midway down the page here: http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/i18nTransformer.html

Actual files can be found here: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-xmlui-lang/tree/master/src/main/webapp/i18n

More information describing the current state of the DSpace internationalization efforts can be found on: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/I18nSupport

4) do you have resources to address reports from translatewiki.net (like, requests for adding message documentation, fixing i18n issues in messages)?

Yes, the DSpace committers and other community members actively address such reports in the DSpace JIRA environment: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS

5) can you appoint a contact person https://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Bluyten https://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Helix84

6) Are you okay for using only translatewiki.net as the way to contribute translations

We would have to investigate the details of what this entails exactly, but in principal we will agree to this as long as: - it should be easy for people to provide translations - it should be easy for people running a DSpace installation to do local changes or additional translations within their own instance of DSpace if they would want to.