Invenio Explained

Invenio
Invenio
Author:CERN
Developer:CERN and external contributors
Programming Language:Python, JavaScript
Operating System:Unix-like, macOS
Language:Multi-lingual
Genre:Institutional repository, Digital library/DA, Research Data Management, Integrated library system
License:MIT

Invenio is an open source software framework for large-scale digital repositories that provides the tools for management of digital assets in an institutional repository and research data management systems. The software is typically used for open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content and as a digital library.

Invenio is initially developed by CERN with both individual and organisational external contributors and is freely available for download.

History

Prior to July 1, 2006, the package was named CDSware, then renamed CDS Invenio,[1] and now known simply as Invenio.[2]

Standards

Invenio complies with standards such as the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses JSON/JSONSchema as its underlying bibliographic format.[3]

Support

The service provider TIND Technologies, an official CERN spin-off based in Norway, offers Invenio via a software-as-a-service model.[4] TIND presents itself as focused on library technologies.[5]

Variants of Invenio are offered by TIND for library services as TIND ILS, DA, IR and RDM[6] under a fully hosted and open-core model.

Users

Invenio is used outside of its original home within CERN, including SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. SPIRES migrated to Invenio in October 2011 with the INSPIRE-HEP site, a joint effort of CERN, DESY, SLAC and FNAL.[7]

In 2014, the package was chosen to be the digital library software of all national universities in the western Africa regional economic community UEMOA which includes eight countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo.[8]

The research data repository Zenodo at CERN is basically run under Invenio v3, wrapped by a small extra layer of code that is also called Zenodo.[9] To simplify reuse of the Zenodo codebase, several institutions have joined in 2019 to distribute an institution-agnostic package under the name of InvenioRDM.[10]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: News - CDS Invenio v0.90.0 . MS Git hub . 30 June 2006 . CERN Document Server Software Consortium . Invenio software . 12 August 2010 .
  2. Web site: About Invenio . CERN Document Server Software Consortium . Invenio software . 12 August 2010.
  3. Web site: Invenio software . Features . 7 June 2018. .
  4. https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/46/News%20Articles/2062869?ln=en "A spin-off company helps unlock the full potential of Invenio software"
  5. Website: https://www.tind.io/, Retrieved March 2024.
  6. Web site: Matt. Enis. 2019-10-10. Academic Libraries Implement New ILS, IR Developed by CERN. Library Journal. 2017-06-01.
  7. Rezendes Khirallah . Diane . Physicists, start your searches: Inspire database now online . Symmetry: Dimensions of Particle Physics. 24 May 2012 .
  8. News: A virtual library for 8 UEMOA countries under discussion in Dakar. 10 March 2015. UNESCO . 14 April 2014.
  9. Web site: MS . Git hub . Zenodo . 12 May 2021.
  10. Web site: 2019-10-10. InvenioRDM: a turn-key open source research data management platform . Invenio software . 2019-04-29.