Defining Your DSpace Service Offering

DSpace is a flexible and powerful digital repository system. Before you build the technical infrastructure of your system, it’s important to define exactly how you plan to use the system and what type of service you will offer.

For example, MIT uses DSpace as a repository for digital research and student theses and has plans for DSpace to serve as the digital archive for all of MIT digital course materials. Cambridge University also will use DSpace for research and theses but will explore the possibility of using DSpace to manage university administrative records. Others might use DSpace as a publishing platform, or simply as a pre-print archive (or a combination of all these uses).

This resources in this section address the decisions you’ll need to make to define your service offering.

Defining a Service Model (pdf)

Project Planning Matrix (pdf)

LEADIRS Seminar Workbook (pdf)