Open Source Python Digital Preservation Software

Archivematica is a web- and standards-based, open-source application which allows your institution to preserve long-term access to trustworthy, authentic, and reliable digital content. Our target users are archivists, librarians, and anyone working to preserve digital objects. You are free to copy, modify, and distribute Archivematica with attribution under the terms of the AGPLv3 license. Archivematica is an open-source application based on recognized standards that makes it possible to preserve long-term access to your institution's digital content. Archivematica is a set of free software tools that allow the user to process digital objects from the moment they are entered into the system until their publication according to the ISO-OAIS functional model. The user can monitor and control the ingestion and preservation of micro-services through the control panel. Archivematica uses standards such as METS, PREMIS, Dublin Core, and the BagIt specification.

Concordia is a platform for crowdsourcing transcription and tagging of text in digitized images. It was developed by the Library of Congress so that volunteers of all backgrounds could transcribe and tag digitized images of manuscripts and typed materials from the Library’s collections that could not otherwise be done by optical character recognition.

Digital Preservation Software Platform (DPSP) consists of a number of open source products such as Xena and Digital Preservation Recorder. This installs and configures the complete platform for preserving digital records - just install and use! NO LONGER MAINTAINED, NO LONGER SUPPORTED

This is an open source institutional repository to manage research publications from conception stage to publication stage. It is designed for storing open access publications and all their corresponding metadata. The software manages peer-reviewed journal publications, confrence abstracts and posters, thesis and dissertations and other academic and research outputs.

With this tool you can easily design a new language, digitize an existing one or incrementally reconstruct an ancient language. It allows for free experimentation of all aspects of the language, so it does not have to be made consistent on paper first. You can edit script, syntax, grammar, morphology, lexicon and phonology, as well as write documents in the language, as it might be too complex to be handled by current font technology. The information is stored in xml format for easy integration with other software.

Manifest Maker is a graphical Python application which takes a file or group of files and creates a plain text manifest list of each item. The manifest includes the file name (including directory structure) as well as a checksum of the file. (No longer maintained)

PyShelf is an Open Source python based, ebook server, that does not and never will require a windowing system.

A web platform to host a virtual library for public and free books.

A digital repository and metadata editing initiative of Duke University Libraries

A python-based GUI program to facilitate grabbing of public domain texts from various online resources