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DSpace System Documentation: Functional Overview
The following sections describe the various functional aspects of the DSpace system.
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Package ingesters and package disseminators are each a type of named plugin (see DSDOCDEV:Plugin Manager), so it is easy to add new packagers specific to the needs of your site. You do not have to supply both an ingester and disseminator for each format; it is perfectly acceptable to just implement one of them.
Most packager plugins call upon DSDOCDEV:Crosswalk Plugins to translate the metadata between DSpace's object model and the package format.
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Crosswalk plugins are named plugins (see DSDOCDEV:Plugin Manager), so it is easy to add new crosswalks. You do not have to supply both an ingester and disseminator for each format; it is perfectly acceptable to just implement one of them.
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SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) is a protocol that allows the remote deposit of items into repositories. SWORD was further developed in SWORD version 2 to add the ability to retrieve, update, or delete deposits. DSpace supports the SWORD protocol via the 'sword' web application and SWord v2 via the swordv2 web application. The specification and further information can be found at http://swordapp.org.
OpenURL Support
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