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Digital Collection Builder (DCB)
The Digital Collection Builder (DCB) is an open-source software tool that makes it simple for libraries, archives, and other heritage organizations to provide access to their unique digitized collections; it brings their collections together with other Canadian online resources for Canadians and the world. The DCB greatly facilitates even the smallest institution’s ability to describe its digital content in a structured way so that it can be discovered through the Canadiana.org or other search portals.
Digital Preservation Software Platform (Xena, Digital Preservation Recorder, Checksum Checker, Manifext Maker)
The Digital Preservation Software Platform (DPSP) is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia. The DPSP is a collection of software applications which support the goal of digital preservation.
DSpace
DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install “out of the box” and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets.
Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL)
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries.
International Council on Archives – Access to Memory (ICA – AtoM)
ICA-AtoM is web-based archival description software that is based on International Council on Archives (ICA) standards. ‘AtoM’ is an acronym for ‘Access to Memory’. ICA-AtoM is free, open-source software. It is multilingual and supports multi-repository collections.
Public Knowledge Project (Open Journal Systems, Open Conference Systems, Open Harvester Systems, Lemon8-XML)
The Public Knowledge Project has developed free, open source software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and conferences. Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems increase access to knowledge, improve management, and reduce publishing costs. Open Harvester systems allows the creation of centralized search services on metadata from Open Archives Initiative-compliant databases.
ResourceSpace
ResourceSpace is a web-based, open source digital asset management system which has been designed to give content creators easy and fast access to print and web ready assets.
VITA: Video, Images, Text, and Audio (OurOntario)
The Our Ontario project enables communities to participate in the creation and delivery of digital content about Ontario by providing web-based tools for capturing information about creating and managing records about digital resources along with the hosting services and support for web display and discovery. The toolkit (“VITA“) is a web-based software tool for creating and managing data about digital objects and collections