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+ Invenio README
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+
+.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/inveniosoftware/invenio.png?branch=maint-1.0
+    :target: https://travis-ci.org/inveniosoftware/invenio
+
+Invenio is a free software suite enabling you to run your own digital
+library or document repository on the web.  The technology offered by
+the software covers all aspects of digital library management, from
+document ingestion through classification, indexing, and curation up
+to document dissemination.  Invenio complies with standards such as
+the Open Archives Initiative and uses MARC 21 as its underlying
+bibliographic format.  The flexibility and performance of Invenio make
+it a comprehensive solution for management of document repositories of
+moderate to large sizes.
+
+Invenio has been originally developed at CERN to run the CERN document
+server, managing over 1,000,000 bibliographic records in high-energy
+physics since 2002, covering articles, books, journals, photos,
+videos, and more.  Invenio is nowadays co-developed by an
+international collaboration comprising institutes such as CERN, DESY,
+EPFL, FNAL, SLAC and is being used by many more scientific
+institutions worldwide.
+
+We aim at user friendliness and speed.  Among the features are:
+
+- Navigable collection tree
+
+  - Documents organised in collections
+  - Regular and virtual collection trees
+  - Customisable portal pages for each collection
+  - At CERN, over 1,000,000 documents in 700 collections
+
+- Powerful search engine
+
+  - Specially designed indexes to provide fast search speed
+    for repositories of up to 3,000,000 records
+  - Customisable simple and advanced search interfaces
+  - Combined metadata, fulltext and citation search in one go
+  - Results clustering by collection
+
+- Flexible metadata
+
+  - Standard metadata format (MARC)
+  - Handling articles, books, theses, photos, videos, museum objects
+    and more
+  - Customisable batch import and web submission workflows
+  - Customisable output format display and linking rules
+
+- Collaborative features and personalisation
+
+  - User-defined document baskets
+  - User-defined email notification alerts
+  - Personalised RSS queries
+  - Sharing documents of interest in user groups
+  - Peer reviewing and group commenting on documents
+
+Invenio is free software licenced under the terms of the GNU General
+Public Licence (GPL).  It is provided on an "as is" basis, in the hope
+that it will be useful, but without any warranty.  There is a
+possibility to get commercial support in case of interest.
+
+Invenio runs on Unix-like systems and requires MySQL database server
+and Apache/Python web application server.  Please consult the INSTALL
+file for more information.
+
+Good luck and thanks for choosing Invenio.
+
+| Invenio Development Team
+|   Email: info@invenio-software.org
+|   IRC: #invenio on irc.freenode.net
+|   Twitter: http://twitter.com/inveniosoftware
+|   Github: http://github.com/inveniosoftware
+|   URL: http://invenio-software.org