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• Document Server@UHasselt - OceanDocs: Customization of DSpace 1.4.2 at Hasselt University and for IOC-UNESCO containing: alternative submission template based on type, batch module for metadata import (RIS - BIBTEX - AGRIS XML) on browser level, authority control on author names - journal titles - keywords, extra views for journal collections - bibliographies (author - collection), combination of repository and academic bibliography with separate OAI-module for full-text and academic bibliography. We propose to port the enhanced alternative submission module to DSpace 1.5 as a separate plug-in; every support is welcome.
• CAS IR Grid: The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institutional Repositories Grid, which now contains 58 IRs of institutes of CAS. The platforms for the grid portal and member IRs are based on an in-depth customized and extended version of DSpace. 

Completed Projects

• Configurable indices for searching - contact Austin Kim austin (at) mit.edu (added DSpace 1.2.1)
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/didl-plug-in/ - Mpeg21-DIDL distribution plug-in developed at LANL - Henry Jerez hjerez (at) users.sourceforge.net (Added DSpace 1.4)
• DRUM - Digital depository at the University of Maryland. https://drum.umd.edu - Completed: faculty may now authenticate against the campus LDAP directory, and are granted submission privileges based on their campus profile. Users may now submit an item to multiple collections. Enabled start and stop date for policies. ETD authors can now request an 'embargo' of 1 or 5 years and their metadata will display but not bitstream. Bitstream access restored automatically at end of embargo. contact: drum(at)itd.umd.edu. LDAP support added DSpace 1.3.
• http://dspace.cs.odu.edu/ - OAI Harvester Plug-In for DSpace from http://dlib.cs.odu.edu/ Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group and Los Alamos National Labs. Currently being revamped and extended by ChinaDigitalMuseumProject
• Checksum tool - Checks for corruption by iterating through bitstreams in the repository, calculating the checksum for each, and comparing it to the last calculated checksum for that bitstream. Can be run as a cron job or for specified bitstreams. Being developed by nathans (at) library.rochester.edu, ojd20 (at) cam.ac.uk and gcarpent (at) mit.edu. For more info see ChecksumTool. Added DSpace 1.4.
• http://wiki.dspace.org/XHTMLWAI DSpace XHTML/WAI User Interface Compliance Project. To ensure that the DSpace user interface meets XHTML 1.0 and WAI (web accessibility) compliance level AA (priority 2) standards. Added DSpace 1.3.2.
• Some prototype Web services for item ingest and access. Not production-ready. Tar contains code and install instructions: ^dspace-ws.tar Contact rrodgers(at)mit.edu.
• RAM RADIUS authentication module - Allows user authentication against a RADIUS server. Besides providing access control, this module comes with an AutoAdd option that automatically associate users to certain groups, based on the RADIUS Reply-Message. Can be quite useful to grant read/submission permissions. Provides a simple way to share privileged information between Institutions or any number of Dspace instances. Fully customizable via dspace.conf file. Developed by IRICUP- Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. Contact: mfrodrigues (at) reit.up.pt
• http://www.qualityessays.com. In 2006 this site developed new project Essay Writing Blog. The project is aimed at helping students with their writing papers.