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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Susan Matveyeva, PhD, MLIS, B.Mus

Associate Professor, Catalog &

Institutional Repository Librarian

Wichita State University Libraries

1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068



Office: (316) 978-5139

Fax: (316) 978-3496

[email protected]

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.



B--



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