[Dspace-general] Retain "DSpace" Name?

[Catherine Jannik]

Marty,

Here at Georgia Tech we decided to change all instances of "DSpace" to 
"SMARTech" with the exception of the one in the footer (DSpace Software 
Copyright © 2002-2004 MIT and Hewlett-Packard - Feedback).  There were 
two main reasons for this decision; we wanted to brand our IR and 
eliminate confusion that might be caused by using "DSpace" and 
"SMARTech," and the possibility that sometime in the future we might 
want to change the platform on which SMARTech runs (also why we didn't 
use "space" in the name of our IR).

In "About SMARTech" one of our FAQs reads as follows:

Where can I learn more about DSpace, the software behind SMARTech?
The DSpace home page at http://dspace.org/.

Hope this helps,
Catherine


courtois at ksu.edu wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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