You have nothing to worry about, Susan - I love jumping off topic! Ultimately
we want to talk about whatever is on your mind.
I agree it would be pretty wonderful to have statistics sent directly to
authors. Thoughts, DSpace users?
Alice
From: Matveyeva, Susan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:25 PM
To: Platt, Alice; [email protected]
Subject: RE: DSpace 1.7 discussion: Customizations
Hi,
I am Susan Matveyeva, manager of SOAR<http://soar.wichita.edu/>, Wichita State
University institutional repository. SOAR is in production from 2007. Our
DSpace runs on Linux. We have upgraded recently to 1.6.2 XMLUI and will be
waiting with next upgrade at least for several months. We do not have
developers in house. We enhanced SOAR with help of @mire by adding three their
modules (zoom, audio-visual streaming, and document viewer).
Is it appropriate to discuss desirable new functionality here? I am very
interested in automated delivery of statistics of hits and downloads to our
authors. Bepress Digital Commons has this feature. The system sends monthly
reports to the authors. Some our faculty mentioned to me how wonderful it would
be to receive monthly email update from SOAR. Personally, I think that
automated statistics delivery is the excellent tool to promote an institutional
repository and to recruit content from authors. I'd like to hear your opinion
on this matter. Would it be a good idea to develop similar functionality for
DSpace? Sorry if I jumped off the topic.
Thanks
Susan
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Associate Professor, Catalog &
Institutional Repository Librarian
Wichita State University Libraries
1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068
Office: (316) 978-5139
Fax: (316) 978-3496
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http://soar.wichita.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Platt, Alice [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Customizations
Brian notes that his institution customizes fairly heavily, which does bring a
lot of challenges to upgrading the software. This brings me to another question
for the group. What kinds of customizations do you have at your institution,
and why?
We have very little at SNHU outside of branding, customizing search parameters
and changing the brief item display, mainly because we don't have the resources
to support a lot of customization.
Alice
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Freels-Stendel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Upgrade Challenges
Hello,
I'm Brian Freels-Stendel, a programmer at the University of New Mexico
Libraries. We're running 1.6.2 XMLUI on RHEL. We started with 1.3.2, whenever
that was, it gets hazy.
Our philosophy is not to be bleeding edge, so we generally don't jump on a .0
release, but we do want to remain semi-current, so a .1 is ok.
We also have a devil of a time with prerequisite software (we almost were not
able to upgrade to 1.6 due to Ant, and we will have to wait for
1.7 because RH isn't offering a late enough version of maven.) We customize
fairly heavily, and that is always a challenge, but almost always possible
because of great community support.
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