[Dspace-general] DSpace customisation

[Scott Yeadon]

Hi,

We're looking at introducing DSpace to ANU (Australian National University), 
and I have just read a paper date Jan 2003 in D-Lib magazine entitled DSpace 
- An OpenSource Dynamic Digital Repository, located at 
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html. The section entitled 
"The DSpace Federation" contains a paragraph as follows:

"In 2002, MIT formed collaborative partnerships with a small number of other 
academic research institutions in the US, UK, and Canada, to address some 
specific questions such as: what will it take to successfully deploy the 
system at another institution? How much localization, how much customization, 
and how much time and effort are needed?"

I was wondering what sort of feedback (if any) had been received on these 
topics, especially where non-trivial modifications werer required such as 
more complex authorisation and low-level code modifications were required, 
and how these we done to avoid issues when upgrading to future versions. 

Thanks.

Scott.