Invenio, the integrated digital library and repository system, is a suite of applications which provides the framework and tools for building and managing an autonomous digital library server. The technology offered by the software covers all aspects of digital library management. It complies with the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH). Its flexibility and performance make it a comprehensive solution for the management of document repositories of moderate to large size.
Invenio is used for:
- Running Zenodo.org (2.5 million records)
- Running CERN Document Server (1 million records)
- Running INSPIRE (1 million records)
- Running ILC Document Server
- Powering CERN Indico search engine
- Running CERN Bulletin web site
- Running CERN Videos
- Powering CERN Multimedia Gallery web site
You can learn more on the Invenio website here.
Advantages & Applications
Applications
- Digital library server
- Institutional document repository
- Multimedia document archive
- Administrative document management
- Research data management
Advantages
- Navigable collection tree
- Documents organized in collections
- Regular and virtual collection trees
- Powerful search engine
- Specially designed indexes to provide Google-like search speeds for repositories of up to 10.000.000 records
- Customizable simple and advanced search interfaces
- Combined metadata, fulltext and citation search in one go
- Flexible metadata
- Standard metadata format (MARC)
- Handling articles, books, theses, photos, videos, museum objects and more
- Customizable batch imports and web submission lines
- Customizable output display and linking rules
Limitations
- Web application server must run on Unix-like operating system
- Focused on academia, research and cultural heritage
Specifications
Innovative features
- Multiple parallel level of collections & sub-collections
- Google-like search with additional options of combined meta data, citation and full text search
Licensing
The software is readily available to anyone, as it is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).