Role of Digital Libraries and Content Management Systems

Digital Libraries are online repositories of digital materials that provide users access to a vast collection of digital resources. Metadata is information that describes a resource digital preservation is activities and processes used to ensure that digital resources remain accessible and usable over time and open access is the principle that research and scholarly materials should be freely available online. Digital rights management (DRM) is a collection of technologies that provide content creators control and protection over their digital assets institutional repositories are digital collections that contain the intellectual output of an institution and national initiatives are actions taken by a government or nation to achieve a specific goal or solve a particular problem. Digital library software is used by libraries archives museums and other organizations to manage and provide access to their digital collections. DSpace is an open-source software platform that provides metadata management version control access control content discovery and search usage statistics and support for various formats and standards. EPrints is an open-source software platform designed for creating online repositories of digital content; Omeka is an open-source web application designed for publishing digital collections and exhibits