[Dspace-general] Does anyone know which archives use Dspace to preserve their electronic documents?

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi,

I think that most institutions running DSpace are planning to preserve the 
contents as much as possible, and that is certainly what the system was 
designed to help with.
To see who is using it look here http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceInstances. 
They are mainly research libraries, but there are some archives, museums, 
research institutes, and other types of organizations using it too. 
Registration is not mandatory so there may be other archives out there who 
are experimenting with it or developing a digital archive service but who 
haven't 'gone public'.

At MIT, the archives are part of the libraries and they are heavily 
involved in our DSpace at MIT service and in local policy development. I 
think that's probably true at other universities too, so the distinction 
you make between libraries and archives around digital archiving systems 
like DSpace may not be very meaningful in the long run...

MacKenzie

At 12:44 AM 10/4/2005 +0800, wenhsi chang wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>Does anyone know which archives use Dspace to preserve
>their electronic documents? Are most users of Dspace
>those academic libraries or university libraries? I
>work for an Archives, so I would like to know if any
>example I can learn.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Wen-Hsi Chang

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