We implement DSpace and Koha for universities, libraries and documentation centers in Guatemala and Central America: installation, collection migration, metadata, interoperability and training for the team that will run it.
They are not alternatives: they solve different problems. DSpace stores and exposes academic output; Koha runs the library. Many institutions need both and contract them as a single service.
A repository for the institution’s academic output: theses, articles, reports and research data. It is the standard for institutional repositories in Latin America.
Integrated library management system: cataloging, circulation, acquisitions and online public catalog.
In several countries in the region, having an open access institutional repository is no longer optional. These are the laws that require it and what they demand in practice.
Requires institutions in the national science and technology system funded with public money to create open access digital repositories.
Governs the National Digital Open Access Repository for Science, Technology and Innovation (ALICIA), which institutional repositories feed into.
The General Guidelines of the National Repository set the standards institutional repositories must meet in order to join it.
Four stages. The assessment is billed and delivered even if you decide not to continue: it is yours, and it works for getting quotes from any provider.
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We review the current collection, its format and the quality of its metadata. That is where the real scope comes from: how many records migrate, which ones need cleaning first, and what information is lost if they are not corrected before loading. This assessment sets the price, not the other way around.
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Deployment of the platform on the institution’s infrastructure or in the cloud, with the communities, collections, access policies and metadata schemas its regulations require. The repository’s visual identity is adapted to the institution’s.
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Batch transformation and loading with record-by-record verification. The migration is not considered finished until the counts match, the identifiers resolve, and an external provider can harvest the repository over OAI-PMH.
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Training for the library team on daily operation, plus delivery of the technical and user documentation together with the credentials and the code for any customizations. From that point on the institution can run the repository without us.
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