About DAITSS
Project History
Early in 2000, the libraries of the state university system of Florida began looking for a long-term preservation solution for digital dissertations and master files from digitization projects. A survey of available content management, "digital library," and institutional repository software indicated that no existing product actually performed active preservation strategies such as format migration. Therefore the decision was made to write repository software locally, and planning for DAITSS development began.
In 2002 the Florida Center for Library Automation was awarded a three-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services which allowed FCLA to add a full time formats specialist to the DAITSS development team. In November, 2005, an early version of the DAITSS application that lacked dissemination and withdrawal functions went into production for the Florida Digital Archive. In December 2006 the first version of DAITSS with all major planned functionality was completed. The software was released as open source under the GPL license in 2007.
Development Team
- Priscilla Caplan - Director
- Randy Fischer – Team lead
- Franco Lazzarino - Developer
- Carol Chou – Developer / Formats Expert
- Emmanuel Rodriguez - Developer
