DSpace已被學術機構廣泛使用，以達到資訊之管理與再利用的工具軟體。本文選擇數位典藏國家型科技計畫後設資料工作組（Metadata Architecture and Application Team, MAAT）網站為研究案例，來檢驗 DSpace系統是否適用於跨組織虛擬數位典藏庫的可行性議題。MAAT網站是一個靜態網站，其中包含全台灣各個機構不同的數位圖書館計畫所產生的大量文件。本研究歸納出，若DSpace的某些功能能提供更有彈性的客製化，例如Community與Collection的階層架構與查詢，以及關聯建立與鏈結搜尋、詞彙控制、索引重建與中文查詢等，DSpace不只可以作為單一個機構內所使用的數位典藏庫，也適合當作跨組織虛擬典藏庫的功能來使用。

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.