[Dspace-general] Retain "DSpace" Name?

[Fyffe, Richard]

Marty,

At the University of Kansas we consider the repository program ("program" meaning "concept") to transcend any particular platform. We use DSpace now, but someday that will change. And although the DSpace brand is somewhat useful for marketing to faculty, we don't want the repository to be thought of as identical to DSpace. So we have, yes, made the effort to replace all the occurrences of "DSpace" in the screens with "KU ScholarWorks."

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Richard Fyffe
Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communication
University of Kansas Libraries
351 Watson Library
1425 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence KS 66045-7544
Voice: 785.864.4611
Fax: 785.864.5311
Email: rfyffe at ku.edu
http://www.lib.ku.edu/scholcomm/
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/
http://kudiglib.ku.edu/

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Subject: [Dspace-general] Retain "DSpace" Name?


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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