Marking Guide:
Demo: 30%
Summary: 10%
Simplicity/Complexity of installation: 10%
Interoperability: 10%
Use: 10%
Strengths/Weaknesses: 10%
Improvements: 10%
Other salient points: 10%

Comments:
* the last category includes such topics as: dspace as a platfrom for preservation, a critical view of dspace in light of modern dl architectures (studied in class), a critical view of dspace in light of information retrieval methodology (as studied in class), etc.
* marks were nominally set - so if you made a particularly good effort, you could get more than the 10%
* DSpace does NOT have problems with XML. any problems experienced were partly due to postgres databases being non-utf8 and to parsed XML (e.g., &) not being re-escaped. also, unicode can easily be translated to characters entities (e.g., e), thereby avoiding any need to lose information.
* interoperability in a digital library sense does not generally refer to software interoperability - but to system interoperability. few people mentioned that there is only one external interface (the OAI one).