[Dspace-general] Retain "DSpace" Name?

[courtois@ksu.edu]

How have you reconciled the DSpace label with the name of your
institutional repository?

Many institutions give a unique name to their DSpace installation, and
we're considering calling our repository the "K-State Research
Exchange" (K-REx).  It seems there would be some benefit to users if we
go through all DSpace files and change every occurence of "DSpace" to
"K-REx?"  For example, "My DSpace" would become "My K-REx."

On the other hand, the term "DSpace" is used in so many files and shows
up on so many different pages, I wonder if it would be better to retain
the use of "DSpace" and help the user to understand that K-REx is
"powered by" DSpace.  Also, if we decide to replace every occurence of
"DSpace" with "K-REx," we're sort of sentenced to redoing all these
changes each time we install a new DSpace version.

There seem to be a variety of practices on this issue, so I'm interested
to hear from folks at uniquely named DSpace installations:  DRUM, IDeA,
KU ScholarWorks, T-Space, SMARTech, MSpace, UR Research, Edinburgh
Research Archive, to name just a few.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Marty

Martin Courtois
Information Technology Assistance Center
509 Hale Library
Kansas State University
Manhattan KS 66502
Phone: 785 532-4428
Fax: 785 532-3199
E-mail: courtois at ksu.edu