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Hello Sam,
<p>We would be happy to assist you to set up your DSpace. We made some
changes to DSpace to suit our needs, and we also worked on full-text indexing
(with help from Drexel). It may not be the best way to do it, but the full-text
search is now working for pdf, doc, txt, htm, html, and xls on our
test server and it is perfectly integrated with the advanced search tool.
You can try it at <A HREF="http://tort.library.utoronto.ca:8080/advanced-search">http://tort.library.utoronto.ca:8080/advanced-search</A>,
and choose "contents" from the drop-down menu.
<p>I look forward to our collaboration.
<br>
<p>Gabriela Mircea
<br>Information Technology Services
<br>Robarts Library, 130 St. George St.
<br>Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1A5
<br>416 946 0114
<br>
<p>Sam Kalb wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><font size=+0>MacKenzie,</font>
<br><font size=+0>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.</font>
<br><font size=+0>Sam</font>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=+0>Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003
22:23:16 -0400</font>
<br><font size=+0>From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie@MIT.EDU></font>
<br><font size=+0>To: dspace-general@MIT.EDU</font>
<br><font size=+0>Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace customisation</font>
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<br><font size=+0>In-Reply-To: <200309220911.21312.scott.yeadon@anu.edu.au></font>
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<p><font size=+0>Hi Scott,</font>
<p><font size=+0>The DSpace Federation project you asked about is still
underway,</font>
<br><font size=+0>but we've learned quite a bit on the subject since last
fall. First of all,</font>
<br><font size=+0>the DSpace software itself has not been extensively modified
by</font>
<br><font size=+0>other universities adopting it so far. Most of them have
modified the</font>
<br><font size=+0>UI to make it reflect their own institutional culture,
and some have</font>
<br><font size=+0>modified the submission process, added full-text indexing,
etc.</font>
<br><font size=+0>Three of the institutions we're working with are considering
adding</font>
<br><font size=+0>Shibboleth support over the default X.509 (certificates)
or</font>
<br><font size=+0>logon/password access control. The main area of technical</font>
<br><font size=+0>development seems to be in modules that will be outside
of DSpace</font>
<br><font size=+0>itself, e.g. publishing tools or rendering applications
for</font>
<br><font size=+0>non-Web-native formats.</font>
<p><font size=+0>The major effort at most institutions to implement DSpace
as</font>
<br><font size=+0>an institutional repository seems not to be in the technology</font>
<br><font size=+0>at all, but rather in the definition of policies and
business models</font>
<br><font size=+0>that the library (or other part of the organization)
needs to provide</font>
<br><font size=+0>a production service to its researchers.</font>
<p><font size=+0>As for avoiding upgrade problems if you make modifications,</font>
<br><font size=+0>we try to keep the development process as open as possible</font>
<br><font size=+0>(documenting future releases, as well as the code contribution</font>
<br><font size=+0>process). The best way to ensure future compatibility
is to</font>
<br><font size=+0>communicate with us about the changes you're making,
and</font>
<br><font size=+0>offer them back to the main codebase when you're done!</font>
<p><font size=+0>Hope this helps,</font>
<p><font size=+0>MacKenzie/</font>
<p><font size=+0>At 09:11 AM 9/22/2003 +1000, Scott Yeadon wrote:</font>
<br><font size=+0>>Hi,</font>
<br><font size=+0>></font>
<br><font size=+0>>We're looking at introducing DSpace to ANU (Australian
National University),</font>
<br><font size=+0>>and I have just read a paper date Jan 2003 in D-Lib
magazine entitled DSpace</font>
<br><font size=+0>>- An OpenSource Dynamic Digital Repository, located
at</font>
<br><font size=+0>><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</font>
<br><font size=+0>>"The DSpace Federation" contains a paragraph as follows:</font>
<br><font size=+0>></font>
<br><font size=+0>>"In 2002, MIT formed collaborative partnerships with
a small number of other</font>
<br><font size=+0>>academic research institutions in the US, UK, and Canada,
to address some</font>
<br><font size=+0>>specific questions such as: what will it take to successfully
deploy the</font>
<br><font size=+0>>system at another institution? How much localization,
how much customization,</font>
<br><font size=+0>>and how much time and effort are needed?"</font>
<br><font size=+0>></font>
<br><font size=+0>>I was wondering what sort of feedback (if any) had been
received on these</font>
<br><font size=+0>>topics, especially where non-trivial modifications werer
required such as</font>
<br><font size=+0>>more complex authorisation and low-level code modifications
were required,</font>
<br><font size=+0>>and how these we done to avoid issues when upgrading
to future versions.</font>
<br><font size=+0>></font>
<br><font size=+0>>Thanks.</font>
<br><font size=+0>></font>
<br><font size=+0>>Scott.</font>
<br><font size=+0>></font>
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<p><font size=+0>MacKenzie Smith</font>
<br><font size=+0>Associate Director for Technology</font>
<br><font size=+0>MIT Libraries</font>
<br><font size=+0>Building 14S-208</font>
<br><font size=+0>77 Massachusetts Avenue</font>
<br><font size=+0>Cambridge, MA 02139</font>
<br><font size=+0>(617)253-8184</font>
<br><font size=+0>kenzie@mit.edu</font>
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