Invenio is a
software framework for large-scale digital repositories that provides the tools for managing
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
A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital resources that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital ...
.
It is
free and open source software
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released under an
MIT License
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Unl ...
.
Invenio is initially developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...
) with both individual and organisational external contributors and is freely available for download.
History
Before 1 July 2006, the package was named CDSware, then renamed CDS Invenio,
and now known simply as Invenio.
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.
Support
The service provider TIND Technologies, an official CERN spin-off based in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
, offers Invenio via a software-as-a-service model.
TIND presents itself as focused on library technologies.
Variants of Invenio are offered by TIND for library services as TIND ILS, DA, IR and RDM under a
fully hosted and
open-core model.
Users
Invenio is used outside of its original home within CERN, including
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, California, Menlo Park, Ca ...
,
Fermilab
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy United States Department of Energy National Labs, national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle phys ...
, and the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
SPIRES migrated to Invenio in October 2011 with the
INSPIRE-HEP
INSPIRE-HEP is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics (HEP). It is the successor of the Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) database, the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1 ...
site, a joint effort of
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...
,
DESY,
SLAC and
FNAL.
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
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...
,
CĂ´te d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast, also known as CĂ´te d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of CĂ´te d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest city and ...
,
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...
,
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...
,
Niger
Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger border, north-east, Chad to the Chad–Niger border, east ...
,
Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...
,
Togo.
The research data repository
Zenodo
Zenodo is a general-purpose open repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN. It allows researchers to deposit research papers, data sets, research software, reports, and any other research related digital art ...
at
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...
is basically run under Invenio v3, wrapped by a small extra layer of code that is also named ''Zenodo''. To simplify reuse of the Zenodo codebase, several institutions have joined in 2019 to distribute an institution-agnostic package under the name of InvenioRDM.
The
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) use Invenio for its record keeping software.
See also
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Digital repository, library
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Institutional repository
References
External links
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Short description about some of the features of InvenioService provider for Invenio support, installation, training, etc
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Digital library software
Free institutional repository software
Free software programmed in Python
CERN software