Archimède: a Canadian solution for institutional repository

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the main features of Archimede, which is the institutional repository system developed by Universite Laval to address its specific needs.Design/methodology/approach – These needs include the availability of a multilingual interface, the possibility to simultaneously index metadata and full text, and the compatibility with multiple technological infrastructures. The privileged approach relied on open source softwares and the use of automatic code generation tools in order to lower development costs and time. This led Universite Laval's team to the creation of an institutional repository system that is based on Java technology and which is not OS‐specific.Findings – The system offers: documents management functionalities; dissemination mechanisms compatible with OAI‐PMH2 (Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting V.2.0); an indexing and searching framework (LIUS) that can index over ten documents formats; and a selective dissemination of infor...