DSpace Customization Services

The standard open source versions of DSpace, come with a broad range of features. This explains why the platform is being adopted for many different purposes. In most cases, DSpace delivers around 80% of the expected functionality, right out of the box. Repository managers are often confronted with enquiries regarding this "remaining 20%" of features the standard DSpace doesn't have, or specific goals it isn't 100% suited for.

@mire is specialized in dealing with such enquiries. Some enquiries require limited modification, such as adding an extra button to the user interface, others are more fundamental and also affect the underlying database. In either case, @mire provides adequate documentation and source code, in order to enable institutions to maintain these modifications.

Areas of Expertise

In over 30 projects, @mire has built up customization expertise in following areas:

  • Style Implementation - ensuring compliance with corporate style guidelines.
  • Integration - Leverage DSpace usage through CRIS, Staff Database and Enterprise Search Server integration.
  • Import processes - import any type of data into DSpace, from MARC21 to complex objects.
  • Submission enhancement - in-depth adjustment of the DSpace submission process according to local needs and usecases.
  • Information access - ranging from embedding viewers for specific filetypes to tag-cloud visualisation.

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