OS Software Support Services

The flexibility of open-source (OS) platforms is backed by a complex technological infrastructure. With our deep-rooted expertise, we translate this complexity into a customized, efficient, and value-driven solution for your institution—from initial deployment to daily operations.

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DSpace

DSpace is an open-source software specifically developed for creating and managing digital repositories. From the perspective of public collections (libraries, museums, archives), its primary role is to provide a professional, standardized, and long-term sustainable framework for the storage, preservation, and online publication of an institution’s digital assets.

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Qulto-Monguz is an official development partner of the DSpace community.

How can it be utilized in a public collection?

  • Digital Archive: Storage and searchability of historical documents, photographs, maps, audio, and video recordings.
  • Knowledge and Educational Repository: In the case of university libraries (e.g., SZTE, ELTE), it serves as a collection of theses, dissertations, research data, and publications, as well as a repository for increasingly important digital educational materials.
  • Digital Library: Online delivery of digitized books, journals, and other textual documents.
  • Museum Database and Repository: Publication of digital photographs of artifacts and their associated metadata, while ensuring the storage of the institution’s digital assets, searchable access based on permissions, and standardized archiving.

Qulto Repo

This solution of ours relies specifically on the latest version of DSpace, enhanced with our own proprietary developments such as media playback, the cloning and moving of records between collections, and Qulto Annotate, a tool designed for the bulk annotation and tagging of PDF documents.

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Core Features & Advantages

  • Long-Term Preservation (LTP): The software was developed with the longevity of digital assets in mind. It is capable of tracking file formats and supporting digital preservation workflows.
  • Standardized Metadata: It supports international standards (e.g., Dublin Core), ensuring data portability and interoperability with other systems.
  • Customizability: Institutions can tailor the interface to their own brand identity and adapt the upload and description workflows to their specific collections.
  • Searchability: Users can perform searches both within the full text of uploaded documents and across the assigned metadata.
  • Access Management: Access can be restricted, allowing parts of the collection to remain fully open while other content is available only locally or after logging in.

Our Services for DSpace Software

  • Installation / Deployment
  • Configuration and Customization
  • Cloud-based Hosting and Operations
  • Development of New Features
  • Training
  • Support and Software Maintenance
  • Expert Consulting
  • Migration and Integration

References

  • Katona József Library, Kecskemét – development of a digital archive
  • University of Szeged (SZTE) – launching the institutional data repository and implementing the University Knowledge Base
  • Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) – establishing a digital educational material repository

FOLIO

FOLIO is an open-source, community-developed library services platform (LSP). Its name is an acronym for Future of Libraries is Open, which perfectly encapsulates the philosophy behind the project.

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The FOLIO Community: A global collaboration where libraries, software developers, and commercial vendors participate together in the design, development, and support of the software.

The FOLIO Software: A next-generation microservices architecture, meaning it does not consist of a single, monolithic software, but is built from independent, smaller, specialized applications (“apps”). Being open-source, the software is not the property of a single company. Libraries are not tied to a single provider (vendor lock-in); instead, they are free to choose from whom they request support, hosting, or development.

Qulto-Monguz is an official member of the Folio Community, acting as a so-called Contributing Partner with a fixed development hour allocation.

We joined the Folio Community at its inception, starting our development work in 2016 with the creation of the user import, login-saml, and calendar modules. In connection with the latter, we led a roundtable discussion at the 2018 WOLFCon conference.

Open Journal Systems

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-source software developed and maintained by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). Its primary goal is to provide a comprehensive, professional platform for the online management and publication of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

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Core Features of OJS:

  • OJS covers the entire editorial workflow of scholarly publishing, from manuscript submission through various peer-review phases, editing, and layout, to the online publication of the final journal issue.
  • The system provides detailed management of different user roles (e.g., Editor-in-Chief, Section Editor, Author, Reviewer, Reader), offering tailored interfaces and permissions for each task.
  • The software is built on international standards for scholarly publishing. It supports persistent identifiers (e.g., DOI), metadata standards (OAI-PMH), and facilitates the indexing of journals in major scholarly databases (e.g., Google Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref), thereby significantly increasing the visibility and citability of publications.
  • OJS allows for the complete customization of the journal’s website to align with the publisher’s visual identity. The platform is multilingual, enabling both the interface and the published content to be displayed in various languages.

Qulto Journals

Our service includes cloud-based hosting for both OJS and OMP systems. In addition to operation, we provide implementation and customization, as well as assistance in configuring editorial workflows and user roles.

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