[Dspace-general] Non-academic DSpace Users

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Courtney,

While I can completely understand your desire to see such a list, we don't 
track this information today.
There is a voluntary registration on the dspace.org website which some 
institutions have taken the trouble to do,
but we haven't promoted it much so it's very incomplete. I can tell you 
anecdotally that there are tons of non-profits
using it (since that would include every college, university, and most 
research organizations), but no museums
that I'm aware of.

As for software, I don't know of anyone doing that now, and I'd be a bit 
surprised to find one since
DSpace is meant to be a long-term preservation archive and preserving 
executable code is still very much a research
problem. However it *could* be used for that sort of thing, and we will 
soon be archiving applets as part of course
websites, which is sort of the same thing...

MacKenzie

At 10:29 AM 8/25/2004 -0700, Lee Courtney wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Could I get a pointer or list of non-academic institutions which are
>evaluating or have implemented DSpace? I'm specifically interested in
>Museums or other non-profit organizations. Someone who has implemented
>DSpace as a repository for computer software (source, executables,
>documentation, etc.) would be a great find, as that is the application we
>are looking at DSpace for.
>
>Feel free to reply on on-list or directly via courtney at computerhistory.org.
>TIA!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Lee Courtney
>Software Collection Committee
>Computer History Museum
>
>www.computerhistory.org
>
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MacKenzie Smith
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