This work presents the meeting’s result between CERN staff and Italian librarians about CDSware.
CDSware (CERN Document Server Software) is a group of software, OAI compatible, for diffusioning of data. It was realized by CERN and it can do crossing research into different archives.
CDSware is a free software and is spread with GPL GNU licence.
It is completely build with free software such as Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, WML.
The main characteristics are: interface configurable as a portal that can guest different kind of collections, powerful search engine similar to Google-like, user configurations with service of document baskets and e-mail notification alerts, support digital documentation and several format of documentation.
Moreover, it can be used for changing data between provider and service and metadata elements among different repositories, too.