Review of CDSware

Anestis Sitas, CDSware (CERN Document Server Software), Library Hi Tech, 24, 3 (2006).  From the abstract:

Design/methodology/approach – CDSware supports the creation of electronic preprint servers, Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) and document systems on the web. It complies with the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) and uses MARC 21 as its underlying bibliographic standard. It is open source software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Findings – CDSware has been created for the handling of large repositories including various types of materials, like descriptions of museum objects, collections of confidential or public documents, etc.

Practical implications – All technical details of the software are described to enable comparison with all other open source software for managing and bibliographic organization of digitized context....