Abstract
DSpace is a software tool that is often used as a digital repository for academic institutions to achieve management and reuse of information. This paper uses the Metadata Architecture and Application Team (MAAT) website in a case study to examine the feasibility issue of whether DSpace is suitable as a virtual digital repository for inter-institutional use. The MAAT website is arranged in a static manner and comprises a number of documents for various digital library projects conducted by different institutions in Taiwan. The study concludes that DSpace is not only a digital repository suitable for single-institutional use, but also a virtual digital repository suitable for cross-institutional use; that is, if DSpace offered more flexible customizations for functions, such as hierarchical level and query of community and collection, association and linkage search, vocabulary control, re-index, and Chinese query.
| Keywords: | open access; institutional repository; DSpace |
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