Welcome

Dspace related activities at University of Minho started in April 2003 and since then many developments have been made. This site was created with the purpose of making public some of these developments.

The first step has been taken by the University of Minho Documentation Services (SDUM) with the translation of the DSpace system to Portuguese and its implementation in the RepositóriUM, the institutional repository of this university, created to store, preserve and disseminate it's intellectual output. This version has been downloaded for use in many other institutions in Portugal and Brazil.

This same version was used as a basis for the Papadocs system. Papadocs intends to store and provide access to all assignments made by the Information Systems’ department students. Some changes had to be made to the original version, in particular in what concerns the metadata.

Papadocs repository allowed us to experiment and develop new features for DSpace. Some of these developments include the specification of new metadata fields in the area of education as well as the creation of add-ons that enhance DSpace in many different ways.

In this site we present these initiatives and discuss the related research projects currently in hands. All the source-code can be downloaded in this site.

Parallel to this site was created LusoDSpace, a website intended to provide information about the DSpace platform to the Portuguese speaking community.