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<font size=3>MacKenzie,<br>
Where can we get information about the institutions and the changes they
have made - to assist some of us in setting up our DSpace projects?
I am particularly interested in the addition of full-text indexing.<br>
Sam <br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:23:16
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From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie@MIT.EDU><br>
To: dspace-general@MIT.EDU<br>
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace customisation<br>
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Hi Scott,<br><br>
The DSpace Federation project you asked about is still underway,<br>
but we've learned quite a bit on the subject since last fall. First of
all,<br>
the DSpace software itself has not been extensively modified by<br>
other universities adopting it so far. Most of them have modified
the<br>
UI to make it reflect their own institutional culture, and some
have<br>
modified the submission process, added full-text indexing, etc.<br>
Three of the institutions we're working with are considering adding<br>
Shibboleth support over the default X.509 (certificates) or<br>
logon/password access control. The main area of technical<br>
development seems to be in modules that will be outside of DSpace<br>
itself, e.g. publishing tools or rendering applications for<br>
non-Web-native formats.<br><br>
The major effort at most institutions to implement DSpace as<br>
an institutional repository seems not to be in the technology<br>
at all, but rather in the definition of policies and business
models<br>
that the library (or other part of the organization) needs to
provide<br>
a production service to its researchers.<br><br>
As for avoiding upgrade problems if you make modifications,<br>
we try to keep the development process as open as possible<br>
(documenting future releases, as well as the code contribution<br>
process). The best way to ensure future compatibility is to<br>
communicate with us about the changes you're making, and<br>
offer them back to the main codebase when you're done!<br><br>
Hope this helps,<br><br>
MacKenzie/<br><br>
At 09:11 AM 9/22/2003 +1000, Scott Yeadon wrote:<br>
>Hi,<br>
><br>
>We're looking at introducing DSpace to ANU (Australian National
University),<br>
>and I have just read a paper date Jan 2003 in D-Lib magazine entitled
DSpace<br>
>- An OpenSource Dynamic Digital Repository, located at<br>
><a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html</a>.
The section entitled<br>
>"The DSpace Federation" contains a paragraph as
follows:<br>
><br>
>"In 2002, MIT formed collaborative partnerships with a small
number of other<br>
>academic research institutions in the US, UK, and Canada, to address
some<br>
>specific questions such as: what will it take to successfully deploy
the<br>
>system at another institution? How much localization, how much
customization,<br>
>and how much time and effort are needed?"<br>
><br>
>I was wondering what sort of feedback (if any) had been received on
these<br>
>topics, especially where non-trivial modifications werer required
such as<br>
>more complex authorisation and low-level code modifications were
required,<br>
>and how these we done to avoid issues when upgrading to future
versions.<br>
><br>
>Thanks.<br>
><br>
>Scott.<br>
><br>
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MIT Libraries<br>
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