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 2009 21 May

| EIAH y Founded at 2007

y Nonprofit Organization Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta y Head director of the project: Mohammad Beheshti the Former head of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization

| Sponsors y The Iranian Academy of Art y Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts & Tourism Organization y The Iranian Ministry of Housing and Urban Development

| Partners y National Library & Archive of Iran y Polytechnic University of Iran y Shahid Beheshti University of Iran

2 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 2009 21 May

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

3 EIAH CAKE 21 May 2009 21 May Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

4 DSPACE 21 May 2009 21 May Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

5 DIGITAL REPOSITORY: WHY DSPACE? 2009 21 May

| Open Source software

| The community around Dspace Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta | Features | The development team behind it | Other options…

6 LOCALIZATION 2009 21 May

| Persian translation of messages Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

| Persian calendar

| Persian user interface

7 21 May 2009 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta 8 PERSIAN LOCALIZATION ISSUES 2009 21 May

| Right to left writing system (like Arabic and Hebrew) Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

| Bi-directional text

9 PERSIAN LOCALIZATION ISSUES 2009 21 May

| Different characters for numbers Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

| Different punctuation

| Non-joiners

10 PERSIAN CALENDAR 2009 21 May

| Iranian calendar based on Jalali calendar

| 33-year algorithm Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta | Standard time and date representation

11 PERSIAN SEARCH ISSUES 2009 21 May

| Some Arabic characters Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

| Joiners and non-joiners

| diacritics

12 RECENTLY DEVELOPED:

LUCENE SEARCH ENGINE 2009 21 May

| Persian language approximate search Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

13 RECENTLY DEVELOPED

LINKING MEDIAWIKI AND DSPACE 2009 21 May

| dspaceBox extension Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta | Uses OAI-PMH 2.0

| Stores in SQLite database

| Searches on the index

| Capable of searching on a federation of repositories

14 21 May 2009 Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta 15 CUSTOMIZATION: EIAH METADATA SCHEME 2009 21 May

| Application profile based on Dublin Core

| Comprehensive metadata element set Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta

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16 FUTURE WORKS 2009 21 May

| Manakin XMLUI Open Repositories 2009, Atlanta | Implementing DC application profile based on Singapore framework

| Book viewer plug-in

| Preservation policy

| RPM packaging

17 RESOURCES 2009 21 May

| http://eiah.org