From ilan at WPI.EDU Wed Apr 2 09:29:12 2008 From: ilan at WPI.EDU (Shomorony, Ilan) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:29:12 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Internal error when trying to create a community Message-ID: <80714657CA27844AAEC7E733FD3FF9760B645D4503@EXCHANGEMAIL.admin.wpi.edu> Hi, I'm new to DSpace, but I believe I've followed all the steps in the installation process alright, and I can open DSpace in my browser with no problem. However, when I try to create a new community, I get the following error: HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.dspace.search.DSIndexer org.dspace.content.Community.update(Community.java:441) org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.admin.EditCommunitiesServlet.processConfirmEditCommunity(EditCommunitiesServlet.java:410) org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.admin.EditCommunitiesServlet.doDSPost(EditCommunitiesServlet.java:230) org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.processRequest(DSpaceServlet.java:147) org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.doPost(DSpaceServlet.java:105) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) org.dspace.app.webui.filter.AdminOnlyFilter.doFilter(AdminOnlyFilter.java:103) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.26 logs. I don't really know where to start from in trying to solve this... Can anyone help me? And is there any other way to create a community? other than the website? Thank you! From zbigniew.zdziarski at enovation.ie Wed Apr 2 11:39:13 2008 From: zbigniew.zdziarski at enovation.ie (Zbigniew Zdziarski) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:39:13 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Repositories in High Schools/Primary Schools Message-ID: <47F3A8A1.4030105@enovation.ie> Hello Everyone, Does anybody know of any high schools (or even primary schools?) that have repositories set up and operating? I would be keen to find out information about them... thanks, Zbigniew Zdziarski From KTSCHANZ at mail.mcg.edu Wed Apr 2 12:24:36 2008 From: KTSCHANZ at mail.mcg.edu (Karen Tschanz) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:24:36 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs and Copyright Releases Message-ID: <47F37B03.56C1.00E5.0@mail.mcg.edu> Dear listers: We are thinking about putting ETDs in a repository, but would like to hear pros and cons from those of you who do so, regarding the need for requiring copyright release forms from thesis authors as part of the ETD submission process. Thanks in advance for your advice! kst Karen S. Tschanz, M.L.S., M.B.A., M.S.O.D. Asst. Prof./Chair, Content Management Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D., Library, AB-241 Medical College of Georgia 1451 Laney-Walker Boulevard Augusta, GA 30912 Phone: (706) 721-9912 Fax: (706) 721-6006 E-mail: ktschanz at mail.mcg.edu From vg_us at hotmail.com Thu Apr 3 16:18:52 2008 From: vg_us at hotmail.com (vg_us@hotmail.com) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:18:52 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Installing nultiple instances of dspace 1.5 into different locations. Message-ID: Hello. I tried to install dspace 1.5 into different directory [dspace] and defferent webapps directory. I'm pretty sure i changed all nessesary paths in configs bebore building. The error i'm getting is "org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://www.dspace.org/dspace-tags.tld cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application" It seems like dspace is expecting WEB-INF be under TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ as oppose to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/dspce-bc/ i configured it to be. What am i missing? Any help will be appreciated. 1.5 was just released recently - not much specific info available. Thanks Vadim From sparker at csu.edu.au Mon Apr 7 03:41:19 2008 From: sparker at csu.edu.au (Parker, Sam) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:41:19 +1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for Learning Materials Message-ID: <0C7AF4692D7A6143A72AD00E5681D7E5038E24A9@ESWW02.CSUMain.csu.edu.au> Hi all, We at Charles Sturt University (Australia) are investigating the use of DSpace as a repository for Learning Materials at our institution. Learning Materials would consist of internally developed study guides and similar resources for use in a range of media such as print, online and CD Rom. We manage our resources centrally to service a large number of Distance Education students. Is anyone you know of, using DSpace for this purpose? If so are they able to discuss how DSpace is used at their institution? All help would be greatly appreciated. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080407/b1a311a4/attachment.htm From bram at mire.be Mon Apr 7 07:06:53 2008 From: bram at mire.be (Bram Luyten) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:06:53 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for Learning Materials In-Reply-To: <0C7AF4692D7A6143A72AD00E5681D7E5038E24A9@ESWW02.CSUMain.csu.edu.au> References: <0C7AF4692D7A6143A72AD00E5681D7E5038E24A9@ESWW02.CSUMain.csu.edu.au> Message-ID: Dear Sam, these links might help you: DSpace instances with learning objects: http://vle.bromley.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2045/1 Using DSpace as a learning object repository (by Scott Leslie) http://www.slideshare.net/sleslie/using-dspace-as-a-lor Louise Ratliff from UCLA was asking a similar question, which was answered by MacKenzie Smith from MIT. http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/2004-June/000253.html best regards, Bram Luyten -- @mire NV Romeinse Straat 18 3001 Heverlee Belgium +32 2 888 29 56 http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get Tog at ther 2008/4/7 Parker, Sam : > Hi all, > > > > We at Charles Sturt University (Australia) are investigating the use of > DSpace as a repository for Learning Materials at our institution. > > > > Learning Materials would consist of internally developed study guides and > similar resources for use in a range of media such as print, online and CD > Rom. > > > > We manage our resources centrally to service a large number of Distance > Education students. > > > > Is anyone you know of, using DSpace for this purpose? If so are they able > to discuss how DSpace is used at their institution? > > > > All help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Sam Parker > > Team Leader, Systems and Business Processes > > Learning Materials Centre > > Charles Sturt University > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080407/fbdd838d/attachment.htm From bram at mire.be Mon Apr 7 07:16:30 2008 From: bram at mire.be (Bram Luyten) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:16:30 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs and Copyright Releases In-Reply-To: <47F37B03.56C1.00E5.0@mail.mcg.edu> References: <47F37B03.56C1.00E5.0@mail.mcg.edu> Message-ID: Dear Karen, from my experience, in dialogue with repository managers having similar ideas, I noticed following similarities: * Many institutes like to have an internal archive of all theses, and a public one, exposing only the metadata // full text of a selection of theses. Some of these institutes solve this with 2 dspace instances, and copying a selection from one to the other. Other institutes have one DSpace, with limited visibility for certain items or collections. * Concerning master theses: If students are asked whether they want to have their thesis published in a repository, most of them answer yes. Unfortunately, not all of their promotors tend to agree with this. * Regarding copyright: most institutes find a way to convert or extend their existing copyright forms for theses, to also accomodate publishing in a repository. It tends to get a bit more difficult, if these theses are the result of an internship or collaboration with the industry OR if they come from the medical field (containing patient analysis etc). Unfortunately, many of these thesis don't get to see daylight although they would be useful to the scientific community. Also, the university of Tromso presented a nice case study regarding ETD's in DSpace, at the DSpace user group in Rome last year * "Case Study: Electronic only submission of theses through DSpace Leif Longva, University of Tromso Obiajulu Odu, University of Tromso Abstract Munin, the institutional repository at University of Troms?, Norway, has in its first year since launching emphasized publishing master's theses. According to Norwegian law, the institution may not mandate master's theses to be published in Munin. Lots of effort were therefore put into announcing the option and convincing the students that having their thesis available in Munin is a good idea. In the spring semester of 2006, the resulting percentage of published master's theses, out of all submitted for defence, were 16. In order to turn this around, we intend to introduce Munin as the only means to submit master's theses to the faculty for defence. In stead of publishing those theses actively being submitted to Munin, this way we publish them all, except for those actively being marked "do not publish". The use of Munin as the submission channel for any master's thesis has been tried out at the Faculty of Science in the spring semester of 2007. We have learned that meeting the needs of the faculty administration, including printing services, is difficult through adjustments of the one and only Munin submission form and the workflow options of the Munin DSpace. We therefore launched this project of establishing a submission portal for master's theses by the use of a separate DSpace instance. We plan to have the portal operating by the submission deadline medio november 2007. The project include: Presenting and discussing the plan with the faculties as well as with the University's administration. The goal is that the University decide to use Munin as the only submission channel for master's theses. Defining and describing the administrative needs of the faculties and the University. Designing the separate DSpace instance as the submission portal, optimizing the submission form and the workflow for the purpose. Integrating printing service requirements, through the design of the submission form and integrating printing services in the workflow. Document and metadata exchange between the submission portal DSpace and the Munin DSpace, as well as with possible other administrative tools. The objective of the project is to maximize the number of master's theses published in Munin, and to establish more efficient workflows for the administrative needs. A possible extension would be to establish a similar submission portal for doctoral theses. At the time of writing this abstract, the project is still in an early stage. We believe we may present a fully operating DSpace submission portal for master's theses, by the time of the DSpace User Group Meeting, Rome October 2007."* To get more information about there approach, their repository is available at http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/ and a contact email is munin at ub.uit.no Hope this helps ! with kindest regards, Bram Luyten -- @mire NV Romeinse Straat 18 3001 Heverlee Belgium +32 2 888 29 56 http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get Tog at ther On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Karen Tschanz wrote: > Dear listers: > > We are thinking about putting ETDs in a repository, but would like to hear > pros and cons from those of you who do so, regarding the need for requiring > copyright release forms from thesis authors as part of the ETD submission > process. > > Thanks in advance for your advice! kst > > Karen S. Tschanz, M.L.S., M.B.A., M.S.O.D. > Asst. Prof./Chair, Content Management > Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D., Library, AB-241 > Medical College of Georgia > 1451 Laney-Walker Boulevard > Augusta, GA 30912 > Phone: (706) 721-9912 > Fax: (706) 721-6006 > E-mail: ktschanz at mail.mcg.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080407/e1c55a84/attachment.htm From vg_us at hotmail.com Mon Apr 7 12:30:49 2008 From: vg_us at hotmail.com (vg_us@hotmail.com) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:30:49 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Change displayed item metadata (XMLUI) References: <47F37B03.56C1.00E5.0@mail.mcg.edu> Message-ID: Hello... .. and help! I trying to find a way to change displayed item metadata in simple item view. I'm using Manakin. Now - i know there is a way to do it for JSPUI (Change displayed item metadata (JSP) http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Change_displayed_item_metadata_%28JSP%29) But how do i do it for XMLUI? Thank you Vadim From dsalo at library.wisc.edu Mon Apr 7 12:48:02 2008 From: dsalo at library.wisc.edu (Dorothea Salo) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:48:02 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Change displayed item metadata (XMLUI) In-Reply-To: References: <47F37B03.56C1.00E5.0@mail.mcg.edu> Message-ID: <356cf3980804070948q40bb1b0h23c1efdc9a966731@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:30 AM, wrote: (Copying to dspace-tech list; further discussion probably belongs there.) > Hello... > .. and help! > > I trying to find a way to change displayed item metadata in simple item > view. > I'm using Manakin. Now - i know there is a way to do it for JSPUI (Change > displayed item metadata (JSP) > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Change_displayed_item_metadata_%28JSP%29) > But how do i do it for XMLUI? First, build a new theme. Next, go into dri2xhtml/DS-METS-1.0-DIM.xsl and copy the whose name attribute is "itemSummaryView_DS-METS-1.0-DIM" into your theme's XSL. Now you need to add or subtract table rows based on the metadata you do/don't want to see. A typical table row looks like this: xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-description: This is a lot of gobbledygook, but the general idea is to change the @element and @qualifier tests to whatever it is you need, adding text to your messages.xml as needed for the element. I strongly recommend not differentiating even and odd table rows in your design if at all possible! What leaving them out lets you do is slap statements around the whole row to test whether a metadata item even EXISTS before you display it. I hope this gets you started. Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo dsalo at library.wisc.edu Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 From vg_us at hotmail.com Mon Apr 7 14:28:38 2008 From: vg_us at hotmail.com (vg_us@hotmail.com) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:28:38 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Change displayed item metadata (XMLUI) References: <47F37B03.56C1.00E5.0@mail.mcg.edu> <356cf3980804070948q40bb1b0h23c1efdc9a966731@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothea Salo" To: Cc: ; "DSpace Tech-List" Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Change displayed item metadata (XMLUI) > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:30 AM, wrote: > (Copying to dspace-tech list; further discussion probably belongs there.) > >> Hello... >> .. and help! >> >> I trying to find a way to change displayed item metadata in simple item >> view. >> I'm using Manakin. Now - i know there is a way to do it for JSPUI >> (Change >> displayed item metadata (JSP) >> >> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Change_displayed_item_metadata_%28JSP%29) >> But how do i do it for XMLUI? > > First, build a new theme. > > Next, go into dri2xhtml/DS-METS-1.0-DIM.xsl and copy the > whose name attribute is > "itemSummaryView_DS-METS-1.0-DIM" into your theme's XSL. > > Now you need to add or subtract table rows based on the metadata you > do/don't want to see. A typical table row looks like this: > > > class="bold">xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-description: > select="$data/dim:field[@element='description' and > not(@qualifier)]/child::node()"/> > > > This is a lot of gobbledygook, but the general idea is to change the > @element and @qualifier tests to whatever it is you need, adding text > to your messages.xml as needed for the element. > > I strongly recommend not differentiating even and odd table rows in > your design if at all possible! What leaving them out lets you do is > slap statements around the whole row to test whether a > metadata item even EXISTS before you display it. > > I hope this gets you started. > > Dorothea Thank you so much for replying. I'm trying to keep it as generic install as possible, but some customizations just can't be avoided. But few things i don't understand: 1. build a theme (can i just copy Reference theme into new folder?). i'm guessing "yes", according to wiki 2. i don't have dri2xhtml/DS-METS-1.0-DIM.xsl. all i have in dri2xhtml - DIM-Handler.xsl General-Handler.xsl MODS-Handler.xsl QDC-Handler.xsl structural.xsl. 3. there would themes xls be located? all i have in themes dir - images lib(contains only style sheets) sitemap.xmap Hope this all makes at least some sense Thanks again Vadim > > -- > Dorothea Salo dsalo at library.wisc.edu > Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw > University of Wisconsin > Rm 218, Memorial Library > (608) 262-5493 > From rea.devakos at utoronto.ca Mon Apr 7 15:08:41 2008 From: rea.devakos at utoronto.ca (Rea Devakos) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:08:41 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] ELPUB 2008 Announcement Message-ID: <47FA7139.7000803@utoronto.ca> Hi everyone I've attended this conference in the past - it is an interesting mix of librarians, academic publishers, researchers and programmers. It is usually held in Europe - indeed this is the 1st N Am conference. Apologies for cross posting. rea ELPUB 2008 Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 Registration for the conference, to be held in Toronto June 25-27 2008 is now open. To find out more about the meeting, to register, or to learn about accommodations and travel options, please visit our website at: http://www.elpub.net ELPUB has a reputation for providing a relaxed yet stimulating venue for discussion on diverse aspects of scholarly communications and publishing. In order to keep with past ELPUB tradition, conference enrollment is limited to 200 individuals (including speakers). We encourage you to register online as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. *Early bird fee is closed on April 30th, 2008.* We look forward to welcoming you to Toronto this June! About ELPUB 2008: Scholarly communications, and in particular scholarly publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding in different ways, from active experimentation with new models and adaptation of existing practices, to strong resistance or rejection of new communication methods. ELPUB 2008 will focus on a number of key issues surrounding the future of scholarly communications that arise as a result of the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and the sciences, and new dissemination channels and business models. The three-day event will begin with a full day of technical workshops. The following two days will feature contributed papers examining a broad range of technical, conceptual, policy, and financial aspects of scholarly communication. Poster presentations and demonstrations of new publishing and research tools will form part of the program. A plenary session on funding and access policies for publicly funded research, and a special session on open access developments in transitional and developing countries will round out the program. The conference will begin and end with special keynotes by John Willinsky and Stevan Harnad. The final agenda for the conference will be available online in late March,after the peer-review of submitted papers has been completed and acceptances have been confirmed. For further inquiries, please email elpub2008 at elpub.net or chan at utsc.utoronto.ca Leslie Chan Susanna Mornati General Chair Program Chair ELPUB 2008 http://www.elpub.net From vg_us at hotmail.com Mon Apr 7 15:55:31 2008 From: vg_us at hotmail.com (vg_us@hotmail.com) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:55:31 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Change displayed item metadata (XMLUI) References: <47F37B03.56C1.00E5.0@mail.mcg.edu> <356cf3980804070948q40bb1b0h23c1efdc9a966731@mail.gmail.com> <356cf3980804071240k999297bm9b16358534fedbb4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothea Salo" To: Cc: "DSpace Tech-List" Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Change displayed item metadata (XMLUI) >> Thank you so much for replying. I'm trying to keep it as generic install >> as >> possible, but some customizations just can't be avoided. > > Of course. > >> But few things i don't understand: >> 1. build a theme (can i just copy Reference theme into new folder?). i'm >> guessing "yes", according to wiki > > You can, yes, but don't forget that you have to change some > configurations, too. See > for > what you need to do. > >> 2. i don't have dri2xhtml/DS-METS-1.0-DIM.xsl. all i have in dri2xhtml - >> DIM-Handler.xsl General-Handler.xsl MODS-Handler.xsl QDC-Handler.xsl >> structural.xsl. > > Aha! Looks like I'm behind the times, and filenames have been changed > (for the better, I might add). Look in DIM-Handler.xsl. My apologies! Oh - thanks a lot for clearing that up - i was afraid i've done something wrong during the build... > >> 3. there would themes xls be located? all i have in themes dir - images >> lib(contains only style sheets) sitemap.xmap > > Your theme's XSL will probably live in the folder for your new theme. Well, the only xls file i have is themes/dri2xhtml.xsl Inside of themes/Reference/ is only lib(contains only style sheets) and sitemap.xmap - is it possible that xls file for that theme is themes/template/template.xsl? Other themes (Classic and Kubrick) do have [theme-name].xls. But i wuld really like to build on Reference theme. I'll poke around to see if i can figure it out, but any help will be appreciated - the lack of 1.5 specific how-tos is a bit of the killer, but not surprising giving how recent the release is. Thanks again Vadim > > (I am hedging here, because I have a multiple-theme repository with > one utility XSL file that all the themes call. That utility file does > not live in any one theme's folder.) > > Dorothea > > -- > Dorothea Salo dsalo at library.wisc.edu > Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw > University of Wisconsin > Rm 218, Memorial Library > (608) 262-5493 > From Christina.Richison at nitle.org Mon Apr 7 15:57:52 2008 From: Christina.Richison at nitle.org (Christina Richison) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:57:52 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <08119B28F4B3FF46A5747921C9FAA678839A1B@AA1EXCH06.office.share.org> Hi Karen, I would be interested in this as well. In addition, I would like to know how others handle "embargo" on theses. Code has been written to handle an embargo but it is rather risky as future versions of DSpace wouldn't support it at this time. How do others handle embargo as it pertains to ETDs? Christina Richison NITLE Christina.richison at nitle.org -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of dspace-general-request at mit.edu Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:07 AM To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3 Send Dspace-general mailing list submissions to dspace-general at mit.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to dspace-general-request at mit.edu You can reach the person managing the list at dspace-general-owner at mit.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Dspace-general digest..." Today's Topics: 1. ETDs and Copyright Releases (Karen Tschanz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:24:36 -0400 From: "Karen Tschanz" Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs and Copyright Releases To: Message-ID: <47F37B03.56C1.00E5.0 at mail.mcg.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Dear listers: We are thinking about putting ETDs in a repository, but would like to hear pros and cons from those of you who do so, regarding the need for requiring copyright release forms from thesis authors as part of the ETD submission process. Thanks in advance for your advice! kst Karen S. Tschanz, M.L.S., M.B.A., M.S.O.D. Asst. Prof./Chair, Content Management Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D., Library, AB-241 Medical College of Georgia 1451 Laney-Walker Boulevard Augusta, GA 30912 Phone: (706) 721-9912 Fax: (706) 721-6006 E-mail: ktschanz at mail.mcg.edu ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3 ********************************************* From j.raeth at stadtteilgeschichten.net Tue Apr 8 10:53:38 2008 From: j.raeth at stadtteilgeschichten.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Joachim_R=E4th?=) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:53:38 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for Museums Message-ID: <8F6FE962-342B-4897-AF33-5BFC726C2F12@stadtteilgeschichten.net> Dear DSpace community, does anybody out there deploy DSpace as an IR in the museum field? If you have to report advantages and disadvantages of using DSpace in the context of the Arts, I would be quite interested in as many details as possible. Your answers will influence the decision-making process of a network of German museums contemplating the use of DSpace for their needs. There are two questions of special importance: 1) In which way do the DC elements adapt to the description of objets d'art? 2) And to which format (e.g. CDWA Lite) are you mapping for metadata harvesting? You may reply directly to my email adress at j.raeth(at)stadtteilgeschichten.net If anyone takes interest in some kind of resumee, I would be glad to provide you with. Thank you in advance Joachim Raeth ---------------------- Joachim Raeth M.A. stadtteilgeschichten.net The Digital Repository for Neighbourhood Histories of Hamburg ---------------------- From james.rutherford at hp.com Tue Apr 8 11:28:40 2008 From: james.rutherford at hp.com (James Rutherford) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:28:40 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for Museums In-Reply-To: <8F6FE962-342B-4897-AF33-5BFC726C2F12@stadtteilgeschichten.net> References: <8F6FE962-342B-4897-AF33-5BFC726C2F12@stadtteilgeschichten.net> Message-ID: <20080408152839.GZ13675@pomona.hpl.hp.com> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:53:38PM +0000, Joachim R?th wrote: > does anybody out there deploy DSpace as an IR in the museum field? > > If you have to report advantages and disadvantages of using DSpace in > the context of the Arts, I would be quite interested in as many > details as possible. Your answers will influence the decision-making > process of a network of German museums contemplating the use of DSpace > for their needs. You may be interested in reading this paper on d-lib by our good friend Dr Tansley: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/tansley/07tansley.html which outlines the architecture of the China Digital Museum Project which sounds startlingly similar. > There are two questions of special importance: > > 1) In which way do the DC elements adapt to the description of objets > d'art? The approach taken for the project in China was to use a core set of DC terms and to also adopt custom metadata schemas for certain classes of content within the museums (I think there were 5 additional schema in total). > 2) And to which format (e.g. CDWA Lite) are you mapping for metadata > harvesting? I think this was all captured in a big mess of METS :) but I'm not 100% sure of the approach taken here. Reducing the metadata to a few core DC terms for harvesting purposes might be fine if you primarily care about making metadata available for discovery (rather than, eg, replication). cheers, Jim -- James Rutherford | Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Research Engineer | Cain Road, HP Labs | Bracknell, Bristol, UK | Berks +44 117 312 7066 | RG12 1HN. james.rutherford at hp.com | Registered No: 690597 England The contents of this message and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. To any recipient of this message within HP, unless otherwise stated you should consider this message and attachments as "HP CONFIDENTIAL". From michele at dspace.org Tue Apr 8 12:28:30 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:28:30 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] SPARC announces November 2008 Digital Repositories Meeting Message-ID: <37718307-7BB2-4027-9901-7B3126C2EBC3@dspace.org> For immediate release April 7, 2008 For more information: Jennifer McLennan (202) 296-2296 jennifer at arl.org SPARC ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER DIGITAL REPOSITORIES MEETING Organizers put out call for presentation proposals Washington, DC April 7, 2008 SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, announces the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, to be held November 17-18, 2008 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Coming on the heels of two groundbreaking developments?a recent vote by Harvard?s Faculty of Arts and Sciences enabling the university to offer access to their articles in an institutional repository and implementation of a new National Institutes of Health public access policy?the meeting will enable stakeholders to explore next steps for the burgeoning open archiving movement. Librarians, researchers, funders, administrators, government officials, publishers, and technologists from around the world will share their experiences and best practices in building and supporting institutional and disciplinary digital repositories. The focus will be on effective engagement with scholars and scientists to expand the sharing of research outputs via open repositories. The program, developed by a diverse and expert program committee, will delve into four key areas: The Policy Environment, New Horizons, Campus Publishing Strategies, and Value-Added Services. These tracks will be supplemented with an Innovation Fair, where new technologies, strategies, and approaches will be highlighted, and a Practicum on marketing and advocacy. The program committee invites proposals for presentations at the November meeting. Visit the conference Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/ ir08/ for details on the program and how to submit a proposal. The deadline for submissions is May 30, 2008. Members of the 2008 Program Committee include: Jun Adachi (SPARC Japan), Raym Crow (SPARC), Richard Fyffe (Grinnell College), Susan Gibbons (University of Rochester), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Institute), Karla Hahn (Association of Research Libraries), Bill Hubbard (SHERPA), Rick Johnson (SPARC), Michelle Kimpton (DSpace Foundation), Norbert Lossau (Goettingen State and University Library and DRIVER), Joyce Ogburn (University of Utah), Terry Owen (University of Maryland, College Park), Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of Research Libraries), Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd.), Sean Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Susan Veldsman (eIFL), and Charles Watkinson (The American School of Classical Studies at Athens). This is the first North American SPARC digital repositories conference since the organization?s popular 2004 meeting, which drew hundreds of participants from around the globe and set the stage for some of the key developments of the past four years. Registration will open in May. For more information, visit the conference Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/. Companies or organizations interested in conference sponsorship opportunities should contact Jennifer McLennan at jennifer at arl.org. ## SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy, educational and publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080408/a3c1e861/attachment.htm From eloehr at email.smith.edu Tue Apr 8 15:48:24 2008 From: eloehr at email.smith.edu (Eric Loehr) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:48:24 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] setting up a DSPace server References: <47FB8E83020000BE00015ADA@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB8EE9020000BE00015ADD@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB9192020000BE00015AE0@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB932F020000BE00015AE3@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB93C8020000BE00015AE6@gwemail.smith.edu> Message-ID: <47FB9376.6000.00BE.0@email.smith.edu> Hello all, We currently subscribe to a NITLE hosted DSpace instance and are considering whether we might want to/be able to run our own DSpace server locally. We're going to need more disk space than would be cost-effective from the hosted service, and would like more control over things. I'm about to talk with our campus IT folks about this and would like to be able to tell them what sort of help from them and/or expertise we'd need to set up and run our own server, so I'm hoping to get some answers to a few questions: I think we'd prefer to go with a unix server, but could consider a Windows box. I can do some basic things in unix (I've worked with permissions on html files, editing config files, templates, setting up chron jobs, etc.on our SFX, Verde, and ALEPH hosted servers ), but have never run a unix server. Can DSpace run easily alongside other applications on a server, or does it need its own dedicated server? How difficult is it to set up DSpace on a unix (or Windows) server? What knowledge would be needed beyond what I described above? How much, if any, java programming experience is essential? (I've done lots of html editing and some very basic PHP and javascript, but I'm not a programmer). Once DSpace is set up, how much work is necessary to keep it updated? What I'm hoping is that our IT folks can help set up the server and the DSpace installation and maintain the server OS, and that I can do the DSpace maintenance. Any recommendations and/or advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks very much - - Eric Eric Loehr Library Systems Manager Smith College Libraries (413) 585-2969 eloehr at email.smith.edu Smith College official correspondence From lcs at MIT.EDU Tue Apr 8 16:21:12 2008 From: lcs at MIT.EDU (Larry Stone) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:21:12 EDT Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for Museums In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:53:38 +0200 Message-ID: I recommend looking at the DAARCH (Digital Archive for ARCHitecture) project by Kristine Fallon Associates -- see http://www.kfa-inc.com/articles/articles.htm Demo site at: http://daarch.kfa-inc.com/ Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/daarch/ They are also using CDWA metadata in a museum environment. -- Larry > does anybody out there deploy DSpace as an IR in the museum field? > > If you have to report advantages and disadvantages of using DSpace in > the context of the Arts, I would be quite interested in as many > details as possible. Your answers will influence the decision-making > process of a network of German museums contemplating the use of DSpace > for their needs. > > There are two questions of special importance: > > 1) In which way do the DC elements adapt to the description of objets > d'art? > > 2) And to which format (e.g. CDWA Lite) are you mapping for metadata > harvesting? > > You may reply directly to my email adress at > j.raeth(at)stadtteilgeschichten.net > > If anyone takes interest in some kind of resumee, I would be glad to > provide you with. > > > Thank you in advance > > Joachim Raeth > > > ---------------------- > Joachim Raeth M.A. > stadtteilgeschichten.net > The Digital Repository for Neighbourhood Histories of Hamburg > ---------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From val at dspace.org Tue Apr 8 19:28:56 2008 From: val at dspace.org (Valorie Hollister) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:28:56 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for Museums Message-ID: <20080408182856.3vc9z27ogkcw8gg4@www.dspace.org> Dear Joachim, I am the Community Outreach Manager at DSpace Foundation. The following are references on the DSpace museum repositories that we are aware of. If there are any in particular that you are interested to learning more about and you are unable to find contacts based on the links provided, please let me know and I can try to find the right person to point you in touch with. -Valorie Hollister American Museum of Natural History Research Library Scientific Publications USA (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/) Natural History Museum By Biomedcentral UK (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/) Royal Naval Museum Portsmouth, UK (http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/) National Research Foundation of Greece PANDEKTIS Contains major digital collections of Greek history and culture "Affiliates Treasure Primary Memorabilia Greek History and Culture" (http://pandektis.ekt.gr/dspace/) China Digital Museum Project http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=169 Further info on DAArch: Digital Archive For Architecture (DAArch) to support the use of the Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) metadata schema in DSpace. http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=332&Itemid=169 Dear DSpace community, does anybody out there deploy DSpace as an IR in the museum field? If you have to report advantages and disadvantages of using DSpace in the context of the Arts, I would be quite interested in as many details as possible. Your answers will influence the decision-making process of a network of German museums contemplating the use of DSpace for their needs. There are two questions of special importance: 1) In which way do the DC elements adapt to the description of objets d'art? 2) And to which format (e.g. CDWA Lite) are you mapping for metadata harvesting? You may reply directly to my email adress at j.raeth(at)stadtteilgeschichten.net If anyone takes interest in some kind of resumee, I would be glad to provide you with. Thank you in advance Joachim Raeth ---------------------- Joachim Raeth M.A. stadtteilgeschichten.net The Digital Repository for Neighbourhood Histories of Hamburg ---------------------- _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From bram at mire.be Wed Apr 9 05:00:53 2008 From: bram at mire.be (Bram Luyten) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:00:53 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] setting up a DSPace server In-Reply-To: <47FB9376.6000.00BE.0@email.smith.edu> References: <47FB8E83020000BE00015ADA@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB8EE9020000BE00015ADD@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB9192020000BE00015AE0@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB932F020000BE00015AE3@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB93C8020000BE00015AE6@gwemail.smith.edu> <47FB9376.6000.00BE.0@email.smith.edu> Message-ID: Dear Eric, we have implemented and managed DSpace 1.3.x and 1.4.2 for our clients on both linux//unix and Windows boxes. We would really recommend you to opt for a unix//linux installation for reasons including the following: * In our experience, most developers and people run DSpace on these installations, making all documentation, bugfixes, ... more elaborated for unix compared to the Windows versions. * There are some known issues which occur on a Windows installation such as errors due to different processes reading/writing the same files. Some more answers on your questions inline: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Eric Loehr wrote: > Hello all, > > We currently subscribe to a NITLE hosted DSpace instance and are > considering whether we might want to/be able to run our own DSpace server > locally. We're going to need more disk space than would be cost-effective > from the hosted service, and would like more control over things. I'm > about to talk with our campus IT folks about this and would like to be able > to tell them what sort of help from them and/or expertise we'd need to set > up and run our own server, so I'm hoping to get some answers to a few > questions: > > I think we'd prefer to go with a unix server, but could consider a Windows > box. I can do some basic things in unix (I've worked with permissions on > html files, editing config files, templates, setting up chron jobs, etc.on > our SFX, Verde, and ALEPH hosted servers ), but have never run a unix > server. > > Can DSpace run easily alongside other applications on a server, or does it > need its own dedicated server? ==> DSpace can easily run alongside other applications on a server, but we suggest using different user accounts for different applications (at least on a linux server) and installation of a tomcat which will only be used for the DSpace application. Keep in mind that a large repository or a repository with many visitors can require quite some resources (memory, diskspace, bandwidth, ..). So you should be able to monitor this usage in order to prevent issues in this area. > > > How difficult is it to set up DSpace on a unix (or Windows) server? What > knowledge would be needed beyond what I described above? ==> The above tasks combined with the DSpace installation docs should be sufficient, although we've experienced some other repositories which were not completely correctly installed. As a consequence, it was necessary to clean up the data afterwards. Sometimes these kind of issues can get quite complex. > > How much, if any, java programming experience is essential? (I've done > lots of html editing and some very basic PHP and javascript, but I'm not a > programmer). ==> This depends on how good the repository suits your requirements. Changes to the user interface can be done with only html knowledge when done carefully. More advanced customizations than style will usually require knowledge of java programming. > > Once DSpace is set up, how much work is necessary to keep it updated? ==> Depends on how many customizations are applied to the installation. Usually, upgrades of the DSpace software can be applied without to much problems if there are little to none customizations. This should of course always be tested first on a test-server. DSpace 1.5, with it's Maven build system, is inteded as a huge leap forward in terms of upgrading. > > What I'm hoping is that our IT folks can help set up the server and the > DSpace installation and maintain the server OS, and that I can do the DSpace > maintenance. Any recommendations and/or advice would be greatly appreciated. ==> In any case, if you run into trouble, these mailinglists are a great resource to get help for bugs or issues. If you would seek custom development, consultancy or other services, there are some companies (like ours ;) who provide this. > > > thanks very much - - > > Eric > > > > > > Eric Loehr > Library Systems Manager > Smith College Libraries > (413) 585-2969 > eloehr at email.smith.edu > > Smith College official correspondence > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > -- @mire NV Romeinse Straat 18 3001 Heverlee Belgium +32 2 888 29 56 http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get Tog at ther -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080411/97af8087/attachment.htm From michele at dspace.org Fri Apr 11 12:09:19 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:09:19 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 training Message-ID: <2A1FC8A1-74AE-481F-9A1B-6C4CDA7C4F9E@dspace.org> Dear members of the community, At the upcoming JASIG conference in Minneapolis April 27-April 30, Mark Diggory will be giving training for DSpace users (sys admins and developers) on how to upgrade your DSpace instance from 1.4 to 1.5 and how to develop your site using Manakin. Mark is a key contributor in the DSpace community, a DSpace system manager from MIT and a committer in the DSpace community. He was instrumental in launching 1.5 and moving DSpace onto Maven. The training will take place on Sunday April 27th, prior to the conference. The cost is $150 per seminar if you are not a JASIG member. You can find out more at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/seminars.html . If you choose to stay for the conference there are several DSpace presentations at JASIG as well as DLF conference ( in Minneapolis the same days). Some interesting presentations at JASIG are: Monday- Semantic web activities in higher education- this will include some of the work done by the SIMILE team, which has created tools that can be used with DSpace Engaging the user community- I am moderating a panel that will include key leaders from 3 open source projects. they will discuss what tools, process and techniques they use to ensure all the community has a voice in the open source development process. NITLE-DSpace initiatives for small colleges- will be talking about the development of the DSpace community within the NITLE membership organization Google web toolkit- This may be of interest to DSpace users as we ( the community) looks at the possibility of integrating the google toolkit into DSpace Tuesday- If we build it will they come? Part Deux- Cornell University will be giving an update on how they have overcome some of the hurdles populating their DSpace repository Personal repository space vs. the personal portal-I hot topic right now, will be interesting to hear what Chris Awre from U of Hull has to say even if it is a Fedora repository, maybe we can learn Shibboleth 2.0- an overview for developers- if you are looking at shibboleth for your authentication system this could be of interest. Wednesday- AT DLF 9-10:30 DSpace Foundation- strategy and roadmap for 08/09 including the new architecture work- if you did not hear my presentation at OR2008- I will be giving an abridged version of the talk at DLF National Library of Medicine- Experiment to investigate the scalability of a DSpace based archive. Apparently NLM has run over one million items through the DSpace system with success. You can find a full list of both programs at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2008/index.htm If you are a DLF member, you can attend JASIG for one day of the conference by paying $150 for the day. You will see this option on the online registration, or you can pay the day you show up. Michele Kimpton DSpace Executive Director From michele at dspace.org Fri Apr 11 12:18:38 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:18:38 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] OR presentations now available Message-ID: <75455822-17F5-4099-90E3-6B577CC99EB4@dspace.org> All the presentations for Open Repositories 08, including the DSpace user group meeting are now available at: http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/subjects/dspace.html If you could not make the meeting, hopefully you will have time to look through the presentations as you will find 1.5 training material, interesting use cases of DSpace, and the roadmap for the Foundation based in part on the user survey results. In addition, yesterday the Foundation sent out a survey to get input on OR08 and future DSpace user group meetings. Please look for the survey in your mailbox. If you did not receive it and would like to take the survey( it is 12 questions, about 10 min) please email Val at val at dspace.org. Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080411/3a0c2dc4/attachment.htm From katariasanjay2001 at yahoo.com Sat Apr 12 01:58:59 2008 From: katariasanjay2001 at yahoo.com (Sanjay Kataria) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:28:59 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 training Message-ID: <463003.66411.qm@web94506.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Dear Michele Kimpton, It is a good initiative but my suggestion is that to prepare a tutorial sheet and put it on the dsapce.org. All community will be benefited globally. with kind regards Dr. Sanajy Kataria Head, Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) India 201307 Ph. 09810503341, 91-120-2400973 Ext. 251 Email: skataria.jiitu at gmail.com, sanjay.kataria at jiit.ac.in ----- Original Message ---- From: Michele Kimpton To: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at mit.edu Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 9:39:19 PM Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 training Dear members of the community, At the upcoming JASIG conference in Minneapolis April 27-April 30, Mark Diggory will be giving training for DSpace users (sys admins and developers) on how to upgrade your DSpace instance from 1.4 to 1.5 and how to develop your site using Manakin. Mark is a key contributor in the DSpace community, a DSpace system manager from MIT and a committer in the DSpace community. He was instrumental in launching 1.5 and moving DSpace onto Maven. The training will take place on Sunday April 27th, prior to the conference. The cost is $150 per seminar if you are not a JASIG member. You can find out more at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/seminars.html . If you choose to stay for the conference there are several DSpace presentations at JASIG as well as DLF conference ( in Minneapolis the same days). Some interesting presentations at JASIG are: Monday- Semantic web activities in higher education- this will include some of the work done by the SIMILE team, which has created tools that can be used with DSpace Engaging the user community- I am moderating a panel that will include key leaders from 3 open source projects. they will discuss what tools, process and techniques they use to ensure all the community has a voice in the open source development process. NITLE-DSpace initiatives for small colleges- will be talking about the development of the DSpace community within the NITLE membership organization Google web toolkit- This may be of interest to DSpace users as we ( the community) looks at the possibility of integrating the google toolkit into DSpace Tuesday- If we build it will they come? Part Deux- Cornell University will be giving an update on how they have overcome some of the hurdles populating their DSpace repository Personal repository space vs. the personal portal-I hot topic right now, will be interesting to hear what Chris Awre from U of Hull has to say even if it is a Fedora repository, maybe we can learn Shibboleth 2.0- an overview for developers- if you are looking at shibboleth for your authentication system this could be of interest. Wednesday- AT DLF 9-10:30 DSpace Foundation- strategy and roadmap for 08/09 including the new architecture work- if you did not hear my presentation at OR2008- I will be giving an abridged version of the talk at DLF National Library of Medicine- Experiment to investigate the scalability of a DSpace based archive. Apparently NLM has run over one million items through the DSpace system with success. You can find a full list of both programs at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2008/index.htm If you are a DLF member, you can attend JASIG for one day of the conference by paying $150 for the day. You will see this option on the online registration, or you can pay the day you show up. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080412/7d63276d/attachment.htm From kenzie at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 14 10:05:05 2008 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:05:05 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DOI's in DSpace In-Reply-To: <70E057C865187B499856C0D92BCCB31402D142FB@NWS-EXCH3.nws.oregonstate.edu> References: <70E057C865187B499856C0D92BCCB31402D142FB@NWS-EXCH3.nws.oregonstate.edu> Message-ID: <48036491.7080807@mit.edu> Hi Sue, Perhaps people have responded to you off-line, but for the record there have been a number of institutions that joined CrossRef to assign DOIs to their DSpace items. The best way to find them is via the good folks at CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/), for example, Amy Brand. Best, MacKenzie > > Hi all, > > We've been asked to look into the possibility of assigning DOI's to > content in DSpace. Does anyone have experience with this? > > Thanks, > > Sue Kunda/ / > Digital Production Librarian > Oregon State University Libraries > 121 The Valley Library > Corvallis, OR 97330 > 541-737-7262 > sue.kunda at oregonstate.edu > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries From michele at dspace.org Mon Apr 14 11:20:33 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:20:33 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] training material Message-ID: <1057B2C8-0303-4D55-A307-27D9194A096A@dspace.org> Dear Dr. Sanajy, You will find all DSpace training material at http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=61&Itemid=151 . We are continually trying to improve on these materials and are starting to work with organizations around the world to give trainings to the community. If you have materials you would like us to post in the training section let us know. thanks, Michele From munrol at sun.ac.za Tue Apr 15 02:17:41 2008 From: munrol at sun.ac.za (Munro, LG, Mr ) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:17:41 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] FW: DSpace 1.5 training / online documentation Message-ID: <36328BB34453D9468A4A1538291335DCFB92FF@STBEVS02.stb.sun.ac.za> Dear Dspace community, I sincerely have to agree with Dr Kataria. I am very dis-hearted by the fact that so much have been going with the new release of Dspace 1.5, but one thing has been seriously lacking. There aren't any proper installation guides available for 1.5, anywhere!! Even the dspace web site still points to version 1.4 only. We would like to get settled in on the new 1.5 version asap, but get stuck with the maven part of the installation, and that is basically that.... It simply doesn't want to install - so what do I do now? IRC channel is very quiet, possible because of the time zone. I have connected directly through ADSL, but still no go. The release notes only outlines the steps, but no details on trouble shooting steps are provided. The dspace.org website install notes haven't been updated yet. I cry out to the mountains.... Please see this email as an indication that people out there seriously want to use the system, test it, install it, and try it out. BUT with new features and very little in available documentation or online help, it just makes it very, very hard. Conferences are great, but only a few will be able to attend and benefit. Somebody, please make documentation available online. Kind regards, Laurence From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Sanjay Kataria Sent: 12 April 2008 07:59 To: Michele Kimpton; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 training Dear Michele Kimpton, It is a good initiative but my suggestion is that to prepare a tutorial sheet and put it on the dsapce.org. All community will be benefited globally. with kind regards Dr. Sanajy Kataria Head, Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) India 201307 Ph. 09810503341, 91-120-2400973 Ext. 251 Email: skataria.jiitu at gmail.com, sanjay.kataria at jiit.ac.in ----- Original Message ---- From: Michele Kimpton To: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at mit.edu Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 9:39:19 PM Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 training Dear members of the community, At the upcoming JASIG conference in Minneapolis April 27-April 30, Mark Diggory will be giving training for DSpace users (sys admins and developers) on how to upgrade your DSpace instance from 1.4 to 1.5 and how to develop your site using Manakin. Mark is a key contributor in the DSpace community, a DSpace system manager from MIT and a committer in the DSpace community. He was instrumental in launching 1.5 and moving DSpace onto Maven. The training will take place on Sunday April 27th, prior to the conference. The cost is $150 per seminar if you are not a JASIG member. You can find out more at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/seminars.html . If you choose to stay for the conference there are several DSpace presentations at JASIG as well as DLF conference ( in Minneapolis the same days). Some interesting presentations at JASIG are: Monday- Semantic web activities in higher education- this will include some of the work done by the SIMILE team, which has created tools that can be used with DSpace Engaging the user community- I am moderating a panel that will include key leaders from 3 open source projects. they will discuss what tools, process and techniques they use to ensure all the community has a voice in the open source development process. NITLE-DSpace initiatives for small colleges- will be talking about the development of the DSpace community within the NITLE membership organization Google web toolkit- This may be of interest to DSpace users as we ( the community) looks at the possibility of integrating the google toolkit into DSpace Tuesday- If we build it will they come? Part Deux- Cornell University will be giving an update on how they have overcome some of the hurdles populating their DSpace repository Personal repository space vs. the personal portal-I hot topic right now, will be interesting to hear what Chris Awre from U of Hull has to say even if it is a Fedora repository, maybe we can learn Shibboleth 2.0- an overview for developers- if you are looking at shibboleth for your authentication system this could be of interest. Wednesday- AT DLF 9-10:30 DSpace Foundation- strategy and roadmap for 08/09 including the new architecture work- if you did not hear my presentation at OR2008- I will be giving an abridged version of the talk at DLF National Library of Medicine- Experiment to investigate the scalability of a DSpace based archive. Apparently NLM has run over one million items through the DSpace system with success. You can find a full list of both programs at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2008/index.htm If you are a DLF member, you can attend JASIG for one day of the conference by paying $150 for the day. You will see this option on the online registration, or you can pay the day you show up. Michele Kimpton DSpace Executive Director _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080415/c28d2b3b/attachment.htm From ilan at WPI.EDU Tue Apr 15 02:57:47 2008 From: ilan at WPI.EDU (Shomorony, Ilan) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:57:47 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] SMTP server causing internal error when trying to register new user Message-ID: <80714657CA27844AAEC7E733FD3FF9760B645D4546@EXCHANGEMAIL.admin.wpi.edu> Hi everyone, Whenever I try to register a new user in DSpace I get an "Internal Error" message, and when I check the log file, it seems to have to do with the SMTP server. Would a bad SMTP mail server configuration cause this kind of error? In the config file, for mail.server I have simply localhost, but do I need to specify anything else (like the port)? Or is the cause of the problem something else? Thanks a lot, Ilan From james.rutherford at hp.com Tue Apr 15 05:02:24 2008 From: james.rutherford at hp.com (James Rutherford) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:02:24 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] SMTP server causing internal error when trying to register new user In-Reply-To: <80714657CA27844AAEC7E733FD3FF9760B645D4546@EXCHANGEMAIL.admin.wpi.edu> References: <80714657CA27844AAEC7E733FD3FF9760B645D4546@EXCHANGEMAIL.admin.wpi.edu> Message-ID: <20080415090223.GA7209@pomona.hpl.hp.com> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:57:47AM +0000, Shomorony, Ilan wrote: > Whenever I try to register a new user in DSpace I get an "Internal > Error" message, and when I check the log file, it seems to have to do > with the SMTP server. Would a bad SMTP mail server configuration cause > this kind of error? Yes, absolutely. The system will try to email the new user upon registration. > In the config file, for mail.server I have simply localhost, but do I > need to specify anything else (like the port)? Or is the cause of the > problem something else? Is there a mail server running on port 25 on localhost? If not, that's the problem. You need to point the config at a real SMTP server otherwise it will break. cheers, Jim -- James Rutherford | Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Research Engineer | Cain Road, HP Labs | Bracknell, Bristol, UK | Berks +44 117 312 7066 | RG12 1HN. james.rutherford at hp.com | Registered No: 690597 England The contents of this message and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. To any recipient of this message within HP, unless otherwise stated you should consider this message and attachments as "HP CONFIDENTIAL". From kenzie at MIT.EDU Tue Apr 15 12:51:58 2008 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:51:58 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] FW: DSpace 1.5 training / online documentation In-Reply-To: <36328BB34453D9468A4A1538291335DCFB92FF@STBEVS02.stb.sun.ac.za> References: <36328BB34453D9468A4A1538291335DCFB92FF@STBEVS02.stb.sun.ac.za> Message-ID: <4804DD2E.9080201@mit.edu> Hi Laurence, It was my understanding that the DSpace Foundation is working on documentation for the 1.5 release, including installation and upgrade instructions. I'm not sure about the status of that work, but perhaps we can get an update from Michele Kimpton? MacKenzie > Dear Dspace community, > > I sincerely have to agree with Dr Kataria. I am very dis-hearted by > the fact that so much have been going with the new release of Dspace > 1.5, but one thing has been seriously lacking. There aren?t any proper > installation guides available for 1.5, anywhere!! Even the dspace web > site still points to version 1.4 only. > > We would like to get settled in on the new 1.5 version asap, but get > stuck with the maven part of the installation, and that is basically > that?. It simply doesn?t want to install ? so what do I do now? IRC > channel is very quiet, possible because of the time zone. I have > connected directly through ADSL, but still no go. The release notes > only outlines the steps, but no details on trouble shooting steps are > provided. The dspace.org website install notes haven?t been updated > yet. I cry out to the mountains?. > > Please see this email as an indication that people out there seriously > want to use the system, test it, install it, and try it out. BUT with > new features and very little in available documentation or online > help, it just makes it very, very hard. Conferences are great, but > only a few will be able to attend and benefit. Somebody, please make > documentation available online. > > Kind regards, > > Laurence > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries From michele at dspace.org Tue Apr 15 13:29:31 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:29:31 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] 1.5 documentation References: Message-ID: <1DB4A64E-7622-4416-80C3-55F1D74BD941@dspace.org> Dear Laurence and community, 1.5 documentation is available here: http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=23&Itemid=63 Currently there is a zip file you must download that has all the 1.5 installation and user documentation to date. This documentation has been converted to a manual, with the help of the DSpace Foundation, and is currently under review to make sure it is accurate. We expect to have the manual ( in Word, and PDF format) available by next week. We are investigating ways to put it out to the community in draft form so members of the community can edit and make changes live on the document. The manual for 1.5 is 260 pages long, so this is no small task. If you are interested in helping us review the manual over the next week, or how best to publicly edit the document let me know. Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation Begin forwarded message: > Dear Dspace community, > > > > I sincerely have to agree with Dr Kataria. I am very dis-hearted by > the > fact that so much have been going with the new release of Dspace 1.5, > but one thing has been seriously lacking. There aren't any proper > installation guides available for 1.5, anywhere!! Even the dspace web > site still points to version 1.4 only. > > > > We would like to get settled in on the new 1.5 version asap, but get > stuck with the maven part of the installation, and that is basically > that.... It simply doesn't want to install - so what do I do now? > IRC > channel is very quiet, possible because of the time zone. I have > connected directly through ADSL, but still no go. The release notes > only outlines the steps, but no details on trouble shooting steps are > provided. The dspace.org website install notes haven't been updated > yet. I cry out to the mountains.... > > > > Please see this email as an indication that people out there seriously > want to use the system, test it, install it, and try it out. BUT with > new features and very little in available documentation or online > help, > it just makes it very, very hard. Conferences are great, but only a > few > will be able to attend and benefit. Somebody, please make > documentation > available online. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > Laurence > From ilan at WPI.EDU Tue Apr 15 17:57:23 2008 From: ilan at WPI.EDU (Shomorony, Ilan) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:57:23 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] SMTP server causing internal error when trying to register new user In-Reply-To: <20080415090223.GA7209@pomona.hpl.hp.com> References: <80714657CA27844AAEC7E733FD3FF9760B645D4546@EXCHANGEMAIL.admin.wpi.edu>, <20080415090223.GA7209@pomona.hpl.hp.com> Message-ID: <80714657CA27844AAEC7E733FD3FF9760B645D454E@EXCHANGEMAIL.admin.wpi.edu> Thanks, but we do have a mail server running on port 25. I actually just checked the log file again, and the internal error is not related to SMTP anymore (after I wrote localhost for the mail server) but the exception is now related to a failure in the authentication... Our SMTP server doesn't require authentication, so I don't really know what could be causing that... Is there any other configuration besides the SMTP server and the authentication (which I left commented) be causing this? Thanks again, Ilan ________________________________________ From: James Rutherford [james.rutherford at hp.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:02 AM To: Shomorony, Ilan Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] SMTP server causing internal error when trying to register new user On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:57:47AM +0000, Shomorony, Ilan wrote: > Whenever I try to register a new user in DSpace I get an "Internal > Error" message, and when I check the log file, it seems to have to do > with the SMTP server. Would a bad SMTP mail server configuration cause > this kind of error? Yes, absolutely. The system will try to email the new user upon registration. > In the config file, for mail.server I have simply localhost, but do I > need to specify anything else (like the port)? Or is the cause of the > problem something else? Is there a mail server running on port 25 on localhost? If not, that's the problem. You need to point the config at a real SMTP server otherwise it will break. cheers, Jim -- James Rutherford | Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Research Engineer | Cain Road, HP Labs | Bracknell, Bristol, UK | Berks +44 117 312 7066 | RG12 1HN. james.rutherford at hp.com | Registered No: 690597 England The contents of this message and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. To any recipient of this message within HP, unless otherwise stated you should consider this message and attachments as "HP CONFIDENTIAL". From khaiser.nikam at gmail.com Wed Apr 16 09:18:20 2008 From: khaiser.nikam at gmail.com (khaiser nikam) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:48:20 +0530 Subject: [Dspace-general] Workshop on LAMP/WAMP at Mysore University Message-ID: Please carry the announcemnet enclosed here with.Also visit Mysore uNiversity website . http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/unity/news/view?id=68 regards Dr.(Mrs) Khaiser Nikam MLISc,PhD & MBA Chairperson/Reader Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570 006 Karnataka INDIA Cell:98453 28672 email : khaiser.nikam at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LAMP-WORKSHOP1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 19138 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080416/1d456480/attachment.pdf From Christina.Richison at nitle.org Wed Apr 16 11:10:03 2008 From: Christina.Richison at nitle.org (Christina Richison) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:10:03 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Professional Development Programs through NITLE Message-ID: <08119B28F4B3FF46A5747921C9FAA678839B13@AA1EXCH06.office.share.org> Dear DSpace Community, NITLE, in collaboration with the DSpace Foundation, invites not-for-profit organizations with educational or cultural preservation missions to participate in its DSpace professional development programs. Interested organizations may--on a first-come, first-served basis--register up to a total of two participants in NITLE's DSpace professional development programs scheduled through June 30, 2009. NITLE's DSpace professional development programs range in price from $125 for programs delivered online via interactive videoconferencing to $750 for our face-to-face DSpace User Community Meeting (June 11 - 12, 2008, Tacoma, WA). Prices are listed on the NITLE website in "program units," with a program unit costing $125. Upcoming programs on DSpace are listed at http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/content/view/full/125. Additional programs will be announced in May 2008. Please note that only events with DSpace in the title are included in this limited offer. NITLE is a community-based non-profit that provides professional development programs, information services (including DSpace services), and peer networking opportunities to independent, undergraduate-focused college and universities. NITLE focuses on the effective deployment and use of digital technologies for teaching, learning, and collaboration and seeks to promote innovation in institutional and individual practices to enrich undergraduate education. More information about NITLE is available at www.nitle.org. To find out more about this offer or express interest in participating, please contact Christina Richison at Christina.Richison at nitle.org. When contacting Christina, please refer to the NITLE/DSpace Foundation collaboration. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080416/95b8b078/attachment.htm From Krista.Coquia at nau.edu Wed Apr 16 11:15:30 2008 From: Krista.Coquia at nau.edu (Krista Coquia) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:15:30 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] broken links to handles Message-ID: <48061812.7060409@nau.edu> We are currently using DSpace to run our online library. Whenever duplicate records or errors in the data are found, our administrator deletes or fixes the record, and this changes all of the handles of items entered in the database after that record, which breaks all of the external links to library items. Is there a fix for this? From michele at dspace.org Wed Apr 16 13:29:38 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:29:38 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed Message-ID: <012EB2E1-815C-4068-A4A3-542BF673C5B3@dspace.org> Dear community, We have completed the draft form of the DSpace 1.5 manual. Now we would like to recruit about 10-15 people from the community that would be interested in reviewing a particular section, or using the manual to do a 1.5 installation and proofing the manual as they go. The current manual is 260 pages long and is a WORD document. We have decided to use a small group to review it initially to uncover any large glaring errors or submissions. After this process ( which we ask take only 1 week) we will release to the entire community. If you would like to participate in the manual review process please email me and I will send you back the document. You will need to review in WORD, and will need to be able to turn "track changes" on so we can reconcile all changes from the team. thanks for your help and participation. Michele Kimpton From robin.taylor at ed.ac.uk Thu Apr 17 04:30:44 2008 From: robin.taylor at ed.ac.uk (Robin Taylor) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:30:44 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed In-Reply-To: <012EB2E1-815C-4068-A4A3-542BF673C5B3@dspace.org> Message-ID: <200804170830.m3H8UjeS024322@lmtp1.ucs.ed.ac.uk> Happy to do so if you are still looking for bodies. Cheers, Robin Taylor. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -----Original Message----- From: dspace-tech-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:dspace-tech-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Michele Kimpton Sent: 16 April 2008 18:30 To: dspace-general at mit.edu; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; DSpace Commit Subject: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed Dear community, We have completed the draft form of the DSpace 1.5 manual. Now we would like to recruit about 10-15 people from the community that would be interested in reviewing a particular section, or using the manual to do a 1.5 installation and proofing the manual as they go. The current manual is 260 pages long and is a WORD document. We have decided to use a small group to review it initially to uncover any large glaring errors or submissions. After this process ( which we ask take only 1 week) we will release to the entire community. If you would like to participate in the manual review process please email me and I will send you back the document. You will need to review in WORD, and will need to be able to turn "track changes" on so we can reconcile all changes from the team. thanks for your help and participation. Michele Kimpton ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javao ne _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech From res20 at duke.edu Thu Apr 17 11:12:32 2008 From: res20 at duke.edu (Ryan Scherle) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:12:32 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed In-Reply-To: <012EB2E1-815C-4068-A4A3-542BF673C5B3@dspace.org> References: <012EB2E1-815C-4068-A4A3-542BF673C5B3@dspace.org> Message-ID: <7973E0CA-18B7-48E7-8371-924BEF3131DA@duke.edu> Hi Michele, Count me in, both as someone who wants to review the manual, and someone who was unable to email you directly. -- Ryan On Apr 16, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Michele Kimpton wrote: > Dear community, > > We have completed the draft form of the DSpace 1.5 manual. Now we > would like to recruit about 10-15 people from the community that would > be interested in reviewing a particular section, or using the manual > to do a 1.5 installation and proofing the manual as they go. The > current manual is 260 pages long and is a WORD document. We have > decided to use a small group to review it initially to uncover any > large glaring errors or submissions. After this process ( which we > ask take only 1 week) we will release to the entire community. > > If you would like to participate in the manual review process please > email me and I will send you back the document. You will need to > review in WORD, and will need to be able to turn "track changes" on so > we can reconcile all changes from the team. > > thanks for your help and participation. > > Michele Kimpton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save > $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech From munrol at sun.ac.za Fri Apr 18 02:58:36 2008 From: munrol at sun.ac.za (Munro, LG, Mr ) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:58:36 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed Message-ID: <36328BB34453D9468A4A1538291335DCFB9C63@STBEVS02.stb.sun.ac.za> Hi Michele, We would gladly participate in helping to proofread the documentation, especially since we are very eager to get going with dspace 1.5! Trust to hear from you soon, Regards, Laurence Munro -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Michele Kimpton Sent: 16 April 2008 19:30 To: dspace-general at mit.edu; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; DSpace Commit Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed Dear community, We have completed the draft form of the DSpace 1.5 manual. Now we would like to recruit about 10-15 people from the community that would be interested in reviewing a particular section, or using the manual to do a 1.5 installation and proofing the manual as they go. The current manual is 260 pages long and is a WORD document. We have decided to use a small group to review it initially to uncover any large glaring errors or submissions. After this process ( which we ask take only 1 week) we will release to the entire community. If you would like to participate in the manual review process please email me and I will send you back the document. You will need to review in WORD, and will need to be able to turn "track changes" on so we can reconcile all changes from the team. thanks for your help and participation. Michele Kimpton _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From blancoj at umich.edu Fri Apr 18 09:37:01 2008 From: blancoj at umich.edu (Blanco, Jose) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:37:01 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed In-Reply-To: <36328BB34453D9468A4A1538291335DCFB9C63@STBEVS02.stb.sun.ac.za> Message-ID: I'm working on the update right now, so I'd like to participate. -Jose -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Munro, LG, Mr Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:59 AM To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed Hi Michele, We would gladly participate in helping to proofread the documentation, especially since we are very eager to get going with dspace 1.5! Trust to hear from you soon, Regards, Laurence Munro -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Michele Kimpton Sent: 16 April 2008 19:30 To: dspace-general at mit.edu; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; DSpace Commit Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed Dear community, We have completed the draft form of the DSpace 1.5 manual. Now we would like to recruit about 10-15 people from the community that would be interested in reviewing a particular section, or using the manual to do a 1.5 installation and proofing the manual as they go. The current manual is 260 pages long and is a WORD document. We have decided to use a small group to review it initially to uncover any large glaring errors or submissions. After this process ( which we ask take only 1 week) we will release to the entire community. If you would like to participate in the manual review process please email me and I will send you back the document. You will need to review in WORD, and will need to be able to turn "track changes" on so we can reconcile all changes from the team. thanks for your help and participation. Michele Kimpton _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 21 17:10:55 2008 From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:10:55 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Accepted GSoC Student Proposals for 2008 Announced References: <5e5aa052-acea-4b21-804b-59620c969c9d@m1g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: <149146E5-107B-4C0A-8E74-5AD32E106F2F@mit.edu> Hello DSpace Community, (Please excuse the cross posting) Google has made its announcement and the results are public. http://code.google.com/soc/2008/dspace/about.html I would like to congratulate all the students that were accepted, say thank you to everyone that applied. All the applications were all very interesting this year. We had some serious decision making to do, it came right down to the wire and as the last votes came in this morning, the ranking changed yet again. I would like to thank Xiaofei Dou and Adam Mikeal for what were excellent and well ranked applications that did get mentoring interest, but unfortunately we only received four slots this year and those could not be accepted. To everyone else who applied thank you and we wish you the best in your education and careers. Note: while we have listed individuals as mentors on these applications, it really takes "a village" to make these projects work and mentorship may change when we sit down and discuss who and how many will be participating. We will more officially announce mentors and backup mentors in the near future. We most certainly need and welcome the communities input on these projects. To all those interested, I would like to recommend that you join the various dspace listservs (http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ DspaceResources#Mailing_Lists) and join us at irc:// irc.freenode.net#dspace when you have a moment to vist with everyone online! I'm looking forward to the great discussions and creative energy that the DSpace community will benefit from in this coming year thanks to these Google Summer of Code projects. Sincerely, Mark Begin forwarded message: > From: "LH (Leslie Hawthorn)" > Date: April 21, 2008 1:26:46 PM PDT > > Hello everyone, > > We've announced accepted student proposals for 2008 at http:// > code.google.com/soc/2008/ > > For those who are interested in a few program stats for this year as > compared to last year, please see the announcement on the Google Open > Source Blog: > > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-accepted- > student-proposals.html > > Cheers, > LH > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Developer and Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology From jcs at lib-mail.humboldt.edu Mon Apr 21 17:24:29 2008 From: jcs at lib-mail.humboldt.edu (Jeremy C. Shellhase) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:24:29 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Publisher's requirements for links from published articles Message-ID: <3ED363B682AB0241AAD6691DCF583C99010D87FB6EDA@lib-mail.libmail.humboldt.edu> Hello Dspace users, We're working to include more of our faculty's published works in our instance of dspace, Humboldt Digital Scholar, and wanted to pose a couple questions about "best practices" in complying with some of the RoMEO green publishers requirements, before we got too far along in the work. Question 1. Publishers frequently ask for a link back to their online presence with statements like: * Must link to publisher version * Must link to publisher version or journal home page * Must link to APA journal home page We've looked in the metadata fields available and cannot really find a perfect place for this information and link. Has anyone set a standard practice for this using metadata? The other option is to include this information as a preliminary page added to the actual submission, embedding the information in the digital object itself. If there are any other great ideas floating around, we'd sure like to hear. Question 2. Publishers frequently state that "Publisher version cannot be used", allowing only the author's pre or post refereeing drafts. Well, as it turns out, many of the faculty that have time to consider archiving their legacy are emeritus or close to it and the publications they're interested in archiving no longer have a digital author's copy available. We're stuck with how to proceed, if indeed we can. Does scanning and OCRing a printed copy of an article satisfy this requirement? Thanks in advance and keep up the good work. Jeremy C. Shellhase Systems Librarian Humboldt State University Library Arcata, CA 95521 707-826-3144 (voice) 707-826-3440 (fax) jcs7001 at humboldt edu http://dscholar.humboldt.edu:8080/dspace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080421/757226d7/attachment.htm From sbeers at gmu.edu Tue Apr 22 10:11:03 2008 From: sbeers at gmu.edu (Shane Beers) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:11:03 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Publisher's requirements for links from published articles In-Reply-To: <3ED363B682AB0241AAD6691DCF583C99010D87FB6EDA@lib-mail.libmail.humboldt.edu> References: <3ED363B682AB0241AAD6691DCF583C99010D87FB6EDA@lib-mail.libmail.humboldt.edu> Message-ID: Reply to question 1: I put that information in dc.description, such as "The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/ ....." This is in addition to a proper dc.identifier.citation which contains a normally-formatted citation. Reply to question 2: I've discussed this in past dspace threads, but I'll mention it again here. I frequently use a software called ABBYY FineReader Pro (http://www.abbyy.com/finereader8/?param=44890 ), which allows one to import an existing PDF and re-purpose the content. I've been thinking about writing up a guide to using ABBYY to do this, but it's not difficult to figure out, in my opinion. Essentially you take the content and de-select things like page headers/footers/etc and create a new PDF that uses the same textual content, but does not contain any publisher information. This successfully side-steps that issue, in my not-a-lawyer point of view. I hope this helps. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbeers at gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Apr 21, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Jeremy C. Shellhase wrote: > Hello Dspace users, > > We?re working to include more of our faculty?s published works in > our instance of dspace, Humboldt Digital Scholar, and wanted to pose > a couple questions about ?best practices? in complying with some of > the RoMEO green publishers requirements, before we got too far along > in the work. > > Question 1. > > Publishers frequently ask for a link back to their online presence > with statements like: > ? Must link to publisher version > ? Must link to publisher version or journal home page > ? Must link to APA journal home page > We?ve looked in the metadata fields available and cannot really find > a perfect place for this information and link. Has anyone set a > standard practice for this using metadata? > The other option is to include this information as a preliminary > page added to the actual submission, embedding the information in > the digital object itself. If there are any other great ideas > floating around, we?d sure like to hear. > > Question 2. > > Publishers frequently state that ?Publisher version cannot be used?, > allowing only the author?s pre or post refereeing drafts. Well, as > it turns out, many of the faculty that have time to consider > archiving their legacy are emeritus or close to it and the > publications they?re interested in archiving no longer have a > digital author?s copy available. We?re stuck with how to proceed, > if indeed we can. Does scanning and OCRing a printed copy of an > article satisfy this requirement? > > Thanks in advance and keep up the good work. > > Jeremy C. Shellhase > Systems Librarian > Humboldt State University Library > Arcata, CA 95521 > 707-826-3144 (voice) > 707-826-3440 (fax) > jcs7001 at humboldt edu > http://dscholar.humboldt.edu:8080/dspace > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080422/8558d6dd/attachment.htm From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk Tue Apr 22 10:36:16 2008 From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:36:16 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Publisher's requirements for links from published articles In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <36C0A87E-71BE-4761-A1DE-7FC5463E87B7@ecs.soton.ac.uk> On 22-Apr-08, at 10:12 AM, dspace-general-request at mit.edu wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:24:29 -0700 > From: "Jeremy C. Shellhase" > > We're working to include more of our faculty's published works in > our instance of dspace, Humboldt Digital Scholar, and wanted to pose > a couple questions about "best practices" in complying with some of > the RoMEO green publishers requirements, before we got too far along > in the work. SHERPA RoMEO "Green" is not quite the right category, because it means "BOTH postprint-Green AND preprint-Green" whereas what you should be covering is postprint-Green, whether or not the publisher also happens to be preprint-Green, and you should also look carefully at the preprint Greens, because many of them mean "postprint" (author's final refereed draft) even though they say "preprint" (unrefereed draft) wrongly thinking that "postprint" means publisher's PDF! > Publishers frequently ask for a link back to their online presence > with statements like: > * Must link to publisher version > * Must link to publisher version or journal home page > * Must link to APA journal home page > We've looked in the metadata fields available and cannot really find > a perfect place for this information and link. Has anyone set a > standard practice for this using metadata? There should be an "other locations" field in DSpace, as there is in EPrints. (If not, someone should quickly create/configure one.) That's the place to put the link to the publisher link. > The other option is to include this information as a preliminary > page added to the actual submission, embedding the information in > the digital object itself. If there are any other great ideas > floating around, we'd sure like to hear. Yes, that's an option, and not bad as scholarly practice. But since it entails more work for the author, and since it's already like pulling teeth to get them to deposit, it's probably more efficient to use the "other locations" field in the IR interface. > Publishers frequently state that "Publisher version cannot be used", > allowing only the author's pre or post refereeing drafts. Well, as > it turns out, many of the faculty that have time to consider > archiving their legacy are emeritus or close to it and the > publications they're interested in archiving no longer have a > digital author's copy available. We're stuck with how to proceed, > if indeed we can. Does scanning and OCRing a printed copy of an > article satisfy this requirement? I agree completely with the previous reply by Shane Beers below: Just "repurpose" the PDF or scanned OCR. Stevan Harnad > From: Shane Beers > >> I've discussed this in past dspace threads, but I'll mention it again >> here. I frequently use a software called ABBYY FineReader Pro (http://www.abbyy.com/finereader8/?param=44890 >> ), which allows one to import an existing PDF and re-purpose the >> content. I've been thinking about writing up a guide to using ABBYY >> to >> do this, but it's not difficult to figure out, in my opinion. >> Essentially you take the content and de-select things like page >> headers/footers/etc and create a new PDF that uses the same textual >> content, but does not contain any publisher information. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080422/bc579df1/attachment.htm From conal.tuohy at vuw.ac.nz Tue Apr 22 20:02:03 2008 From: conal.tuohy at vuw.ac.nz (Conal Tuohy) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:02:03 +1200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Publisher's requirements for links from published articles In-Reply-To: <36C0A87E-71BE-4761-A1DE-7FC5463E87B7@ecs.soton.ac.uk> References: <36C0A87E-71BE-4761-A1DE-7FC5463E87B7@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Message-ID: <1208908923.32502.44.camel@localhost> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 10:36 -0400, Stevan Harnad wrote: > On 22-Apr-08, at 10:12 AM, dspace-general-request at mit.edu wrote: > > Publishers frequently ask for a link back to their online presence > > with statements like: > > * Must link to publisher version > > * Must link to publisher version or journal home page > > * Must link to APA journal home page > > We've looked in the metadata fields available and cannot really find > > a perfect place for this information and link. Has anyone set a > > standard practice for this using metadata? > > > > > There should be an "other locations" field in DSpace, as there is in > EPrints. (If not, someone should quickly create/configure one.) > > > That's the place to put the link to the publisher link. dc.relation (or one of its more specialised form such as isVersionOf / hasVersion or similar) is a good way to store this information, in my opinion. http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-isVersionOf http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-hasVersion -- Conal Tuohy New Zealand Electronic Text Centre www.nzetc.org From munrol at sun.ac.za Wed Apr 23 09:35:41 2008 From: munrol at sun.ac.za (Munro, LG, Mr ) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:35:41 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Upgrade to 1.5 probs Message-ID: <36328BB34453D9468A4A1538291335DC01006A82@STBEVS02.stb.sun.ac.za> Hello, We managed to do a fresh install 1.5 successfully without the issues mentioned below, thus a stable and solid system. But whilst testing the upgrading process, we encountered a few issues. I am also following/proofreading the dspace manual, so I am pretty sure I am not missing anything. We sucessfully ran the SQL indexing update scripts for upgrading our Dspace 1.3.2 installation to 1.4 and then to 1.5, but noticed the following: * the additional Bit Stream Registries that are included with 1.5, are not in our PostgreSQL database (we know there are 73 Bit Stream registries because we did a separate test install of 1.5). It seems these additional rows in the Postgres database are not included in the update sql scripts like they are present in the create database schema sql scripts for fresh installations. * In addition, we receive internal errors on the following links: o Titles search/sort o Item Issue indexes don't work with our upgraded data, but they do work on the fresh install o Withdrawn Items In regard to the SQL problem we need to know if we have missed something, or is an additional step omitted from the upgrade instructions? If not either, how does one go about updating your tables? We are also confident that the other issues are sql related, especially withdrawn items, which should be empty... Trust to hear from the community, Regards, Laurence -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On 23 Apr 2008, at 3:35 PM, Munro, LG, Mr wrote: > > Hello, > > We managed to do a fresh install 1.5 successfully without the issues > mentioned below, thus a stable and solid system. > > But whilst testing the upgrading process, we encountered a few > issues. I am also following/proofreading the dspace manual, so I am > pretty sure I am not missing anything. > > We sucessfully ran the SQL indexing update scripts for upgrading our > Dspace 1.3.2 installation to 1.4 and then to 1.5, but noticed the > following: > ? the additional Bit Stream Registries that are included with > 1.5, are not in our PostgreSQL database > (we know there are 73 Bit Stream registries because we did a > separate test install of 1.5). > It seems these additional rows in the Postgres database are not > included in the update sql scripts like they > are present in the create database schema sql scripts for fresh > installations. > > ? In addition, we receive internal errors on the following > links: > o Titles search/sort > o Item Issue indexes don't work with our upgraded data, but > they do work on the fresh install > o Withdrawn Items > > In regard to the SQL problem we need to know if we have missed > something, or is an additional step omitted from the upgrade > instructions? If not either, how does one go about updating your > tables? We are also confident that the other issues are sql > related, especially withdrawn items, which should be empty? > > > Trust to hear from the community, > > Regards, > Laurence > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080424/cd79e122/attachment.htm From chodge5 at utk.edu Thu Apr 24 10:21:15 2008 From: chodge5 at utk.edu (chodge5@utk.edu) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:21:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs In-Reply-To: <1AE361C0-6D96-4B06-9FAA-F2173CAF5754@sun.ac.za> Message-ID: We have upgraded to 1.5, and had thought about adding Tapir for managing ETDs...Is Tapir still alive, and are people still using it? Alternately, does anyone on the list know when Vireo might be ready for beta-testing? -c Chris Hodge University of Tennessee From girija at rri.res.in Sat Apr 26 02:13:23 2008 From: girija at rri.res.in (Girija S.) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:43:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Publisher's requirements for links from published articles In-Reply-To: <3ED363B682AB0241AAD6691DCF583C99010D87FB6EDA@lib-mail.libmail.humboldt.edu> References: <3ED363B682AB0241AAD6691DCF583C99010D87FB6EDA@lib-mail.libmail.humboldt.edu> Message-ID: Dear Jeremy, We use Dspace 1.4.2 and address your questions in the following way: 1. We use the relation.uri to give a link to the published version of the article. We use the doi if available and have labelled this field as 'alternative location'. This creates a clickable link and anyone with subscription to the journal can access it immediately. 2. We have hosted all our institute publications on our repository (including all of C.V. Raman's publications). We have scanned the older articles (as they were not yet online). The fulltext is open-access or restricted access depending on the publisher's copyright policies. If open-access versions are available at arXiv or ADS, we also give a link to this using the relation.uri. We plan to add the request-a-copy button in future so that restricted articles can be requested by anyone. Even now, anyone can contact us to get the restricted items. As you can guess, we are using the repository to also archive all the publications of the institute at a central place. Have a look at http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3442 to get an idea. Best wishes, Girija ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Girija Srinivasan, Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: girija at rri.res.in On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jeremy C. Shellhase wrote: > Hello Dspace users, > > We're working to include more of our faculty's published works in our instance of dspace, Humboldt Digital Scholar, and wanted to pose a couple questions about "best practices" in complying with some of the RoMEO green publishers requirements, before we got too far along in the work. > > Question 1. > > Publishers frequently ask for a link back to their online presence with statements like: > > * Must link to publisher version > > * Must link to publisher version or journal home page > > * Must link to APA journal home page > We've looked in the metadata fields available and cannot really find a perfect place for this information and link. Has anyone set a standard practice for this using metadata? > The other option is to include this information as a preliminary page added to the actual submission, embedding the information in the digital object itself. If there are any other great ideas floating around, we'd sure like to hear. > > Question 2. > > Publishers frequently state that "Publisher version cannot be used", allowing only the author's pre or post refereeing drafts. Well, as it turns out, many of the faculty that have time to consider archiving their legacy are emeritus or close to it and the publications they're interested in archiving no longer have a digital author's copy available. We're stuck with how to proceed, if indeed we can. Does scanning and OCRing a printed copy of an article satisfy this requirement? > > Thanks in advance and keep up the good work. > > Jeremy C. Shellhase > Systems Librarian > Humboldt State University Library > Arcata, CA 95521 > 707-826-3144 (voice) > 707-826-3440 (fax) > jcs7001 at humboldt edu > http://dscholar.humboldt.edu:8080/dspace > > > From l.hayes at auckland.ac.nz Sun Apr 27 19:55:40 2008 From: l.hayes at auckland.ac.nz (Leonie Hayes) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:55:40 +1200 Subject: [Dspace-general] FW: Google harvesting using OAI-PMH Message-ID: Hi all Would anyone like to comment from a DSpace perspective, (see below) regarding current practices. There seems to be a lot of conflicting information around. We use the standard site map and exclude the Browse screens and Suggest a title, do most other sites do the same? Leonie Hayes Research Repository Librarian http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/contacts/?firstname=&lastname=hayes http:// researchspace.auckland.ac.nz 1883-2008: Celebrating 125 Years ________________________________ From: Digitool Discussion List [mailto:DIGITOOL-L at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Yaniv Levi Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:10 PM To: DIGITOOL-L at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Google harvesting from DigiTool Dear Members, A few months ago there was some discussion regarding Google harvesting information from DigiTool - so here is a short update. The official Google statement stated that Google supports harvesting using OAI-PMH and as DigiTool can serve as an OAI-PMH provider we assumed that harvesting by Google is possible. After a few attempts, and a few discussions with Google (we should thank CJH for doing the effort) we got a clear message that OAI-PMH harvesting is no longer supported and customers should use the standard map site required by Google (personally, I'm not sure if OAI-PMH was ever supported). As this is the situation, we are working on an enhancement that will allow Google to harvest DigiTool using a site map as required by Google. We have done a few internal testing in the last few weeks and the results are satisfactory. We plan to implement this enhancement at a few sites that have requested just after SP20 and the enhancement will be included in SP21. You can find some results of our tests if you search "DigiTool Picasso" in Google. Best Regards, Yaniv ______________________ Yaniv Levi, Digital Products Manager Ex Libris Ltd. Malcha Technological Park, Jerusalem 91481 Tel: +972-2-6499270 Cell: +972-54-4999370 Fax: +972-2-6483956 Email: Yaniv.Levi at ExLibrisGroup.com Please consider our environment... do you really need to print this email? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080428/2d8a3f00/attachment.htm From conal.tuohy at vuw.ac.nz Sun Apr 27 23:50:43 2008 From: conal.tuohy at vuw.ac.nz (Conal Tuohy) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:50:43 +1200 Subject: [Dspace-general] FW: Google harvesting using OAI-PMH In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1209354643.27728.8.camel@localhost> >From the horse's mouth: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/retiring-support-for-oai-pmh-in.html On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:55 +1200, Leonie Hayes wrote: > Hi all > > Would anyone like to comment from a DSpace perspective, (see below) > regarding current practices. There seems to be a lot of conflicting > information around. > > We use the standard site map and exclude the Browse screens and > Suggest a title, do most other sites do the same? > > Leonie Hayes > Research Repository Librarian > http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/contacts/?firstname=&lastname=hayes > http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz > > 1883-2008: Celebrating 125 Years > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Digitool Discussion List [mailto:DIGITOOL-L at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On > Behalf Of Yaniv Levi > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:10 PM > To: DIGITOOL-L at LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Google harvesting from DigiTool > > > > Dear Members, > > > > A few months ago there was some discussion regarding Google harvesting > information from DigiTool ? so here is a short update. > > > > The official Google statement stated that Google supports harvesting > using OAI-PMH and as DigiTool can serve as an OAI-PMH provider we > assumed that harvesting by Google is possible. After a few attempts, > and a few discussions with Google (we should thank CJH for doing the > effort) we got a clear message that OAI-PMH harvesting is no longer > supported and customers should use the standard map site required by > Google (personally, I?m not sure if OAI-PMH was ever supported). > > > > As this is the situation, we are working on an enhancement that will > allow Google to harvest DigiTool using a site map as required by > Google. We have done a few internal testing in the last few weeks and > the results are satisfactory. We plan to implement this enhancement at > a few sites that have requested just after SP20 and the enhancement > will be included in SP21. > > > > You can find some results of our tests if you search ?DigiTool > Picasso? in Google. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Yaniv > > > > ______________________ > > Yaniv Levi, Digital Products Manager > > Ex Libris Ltd. > Malcha Technological Park, > Jerusalem 91481 > > Tel: +972-2-6499270 > Cell: +972-54-4999370 > Fax: +972-2-6483956 > > Email: Yaniv.Levi at ExLibrisGroup.com > > > Please consider our environment... do you really need to print this > email? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -- Conal Tuohy New Zealand Electronic Text Centre www.nzetc.org From sdl at aber.ac.uk Mon Apr 28 02:10:55 2008 From: sdl at aber.ac.uk (Stuart Lewis) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:10:55 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] FW: Google harvesting using OAI-PMH In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Leonie, > Would anyone like to comment from a DSpace perspective, (see below) regarding > current practices. There seems to be a lot of conflicting information around. Agreed! From what I've seen there has been a lot of hype about a service used by only 200 people which Google is discontinuing. > A few months ago there was some discussion regarding Google harvesting > information from DigiTool ? so here is a short update. > > The official Google statement stated that Google supports harvesting using > OAI-PMH and as DigiTool can serve as an OAI-PMH provider we assumed that > harvesting by Google is possible. After a few attempts, and a few discussions > with Google (we should thank CJH for doing the effort) we got a clear message > that OAI-PMH harvesting is no longer supported and customers should use the > standard map site required by Google (personally, I?m not sure if OAI-PMH was > ever supported). *As far as we know*, Google did not use OAI-PMH to harvest items as for example OAISter do. They only used OAI-PMH as a way of discovering new web pages in a web site, which they then go and index in a traditional way. So sites could provide their OAI-PMH feed to Google to help ensure Google had complete coverage of a site. Because all Google really wants is the URLs which they can then index, OAI-PMH is somewhat heavy-weight for this purpose, giving them a lot more information than they really want. This can be seen by their participation in the development of sitemaps (http://sitemaps.org/) which is much more lightweight. > We use the standard site map and exclude the Browse screens and Suggest a > title, do most other sites do the same? Yes - that is common good practise, as there is no point in Google spidering your browse screens if they can get the same information (a list of all the items / collections / communities) in a more efficient way. One of the less publicised features of DSpace version 1.5 is the inclusion of support for sitemaps. [dspace]/bin/generate-sitemaps will generate your sitemaps, which are then exposed at http://dspace.example.com/dspace/sitemap You'll need to register with Google Webmaster Tools ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/) in order to be able to inform Google where the sitemap is located. Thanks, Stuart _________________________________________________________________ Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth Information Services Prifysgol Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University E-bost / E-mail: Stuart.Lewis at aber.ac.uk Ffon / Tel: (01970) 622860 _________________________________________________________________ From gary at hulmail.harvard.edu Mon Apr 28 11:02:13 2008 From: gary at hulmail.harvard.edu (Gary McGath) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:02:13 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Spam pages? Message-ID: <4815E6F5.4030101@hulmail.harvard.edu> A Google search of dspace.org is turning up a lot of hits that look like spam pages in the wiki. Has a spammer somehow gotten wiki write access? -- Gary McGath Digital Library Software Engineer Harvard University Library Office for Information Systems http://hul.harvard.edu/~gary/index.html From roberttansley at google.com Tue Apr 29 14:00:49 2008 From: roberttansley at google.com (Robert Tansley) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:00:49 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] FW: Google harvesting using OAI-PMH In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <38d44e00804291100k2df20f64lc12619a04741f0b4@mail.gmail.com> To add a couple of points: OAI-PMH actually gives *less* information than we want: there is no predictable way to reach the item full text/content from an OAI-PMH record. Also, in addition to support for sitemaps.org Sitemaps, DSpace 1.5 can generate static HTML pages containing links to item pages. These are basically pre-generated browse pages for crawlers, which don't need you to register with Webmaster tools etc and carry most of the same benefits (i.e. minimising crawler load). If you have either sitemaps.org or the HTML sitemaps set up (note that a link to the HTML sitemap must be present on your DSpace site, e.g. from the home page) setting up your robots.txt to prevent crawling of the dynamic browse UI pages should lighten load on your server somewhat. Rob On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Stuart Lewis wrote: > Hi Leonie, > > > > Would anyone like to comment from a DSpace perspective, (see below) regarding > > current practices. There seems to be a lot of conflicting information around. > > Agreed! From what I've seen there has been a lot of hype about a service > used by only 200 people which Google is discontinuing. > > > > A few months ago there was some discussion regarding Google harvesting > > information from DigiTool ? so here is a short update. > > > > The official Google statement stated that Google supports harvesting using > > OAI-PMH and as DigiTool can serve as an OAI-PMH provider we assumed that > > harvesting by Google is possible. After a few attempts, and a few discussions > > with Google (we should thank CJH for doing the effort) we got a clear message > > that OAI-PMH harvesting is no longer supported and customers should use the > > standard map site required by Google (personally, I?m not sure if OAI-PMH was > > ever supported). > > *As far as we know*, Google did not use OAI-PMH to harvest items as for > example OAISter do. They only used OAI-PMH as a way of discovering new web > pages in a web site, which they then go and index in a traditional way. So > sites could provide their OAI-PMH feed to Google to help ensure Google had > complete coverage of a site. > > Because all Google really wants is the URLs which they can then index, > OAI-PMH is somewhat heavy-weight for this purpose, giving them a lot more > information than they really want. This can be seen by their participation > in the development of sitemaps (http://sitemaps.org/) which is much more > lightweight. > > > > We use the standard site map and exclude the Browse screens and Suggest a > > title, do most other sites do the same? > > Yes - that is common good practise, as there is no point in Google spidering > your browse screens if they can get the same information (a list of all the > items / collections / communities) in a more efficient way. > > One of the less publicised features of DSpace version 1.5 is the inclusion > of support for sitemaps. [dspace]/bin/generate-sitemaps will generate your > sitemaps, which are then exposed at http://dspace.example.com/dspace/sitemap > > You'll need to register with Google Webmaster Tools ( > http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/) in order to be able to inform > Google where the sitemap is located. > > Thanks, > > > Stuart > _________________________________________________________________ > > Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth Information Services > Prifysgol Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University > > E-bost / E-mail: Stuart.Lewis at aber.ac.uk > Ffon / Tel: (01970) 622860 > _________________________________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From condic at oakland.edu Tue Apr 29 14:11:01 2008 From: condic at oakland.edu (Eric Condic) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:11:01 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Changing an Item's Collection Message-ID: <00a401c8aa24$620294a0$0676d28d@opennet.oakland.edu> We have just begun playing around with DSpace and have decided to subdivide a large collection into smaller sub-collections. How do I move an item from one collection to another? Thanks!! Eric ---- Eric H.M.M. Condic Manager of Library Systems Kresge Library Oakland University Phone: 248.370.2467 FAX: 248.370.2474 E-Mail: condic at oakland.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080429/439606b1/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Assuming that you use postgres and got the proper dumps, the commands are: update item set owning_collection=NewCollectionID where item_id=ItemID; update collection2item set collection_id=NewCollectionID where collection_id=OldCollectionID and item_id=ItemID; hope that helps Claudia > We have just begun playing around with DSpace and have decided to > subdivide > a large collection into smaller sub-collections. How do I move an item > from > one collection to another? > > > > Thanks!! > > > > Eric > > > > ---- > > > Eric H.M.M. Condic > > Manager of Library Systems > > Kresge Library > > Oakland University > > Phone: 248.370.2467 > > FAX: 248.370.2474 > > E-Mail: condic at oakland.edu > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From aclobrid at bucknell.edu Wed Apr 30 13:54:11 2008 From: aclobrid at bucknell.edu (Abby Clobridge) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:54:11 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference - Final Call for Proposals Message-ID: <4818B243.1090002@bucknell.edu> This is a final call for proposals for the Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference. ----------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PROPOSALS Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference 2008 http://blogs.bucknell.edu/DigitalLibraryConference2008/ July 9, 2008 Hosted by Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ALL PROPOSALS DUE BY MAY 1, 2008 March 18, 2008, Lewisburg, PA -- Bucknell University's Library & Technology Division is pleased to issue this Call for Proposals for the first Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference. The conference goal is to bring together librarians and technologists from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions such as colleges and universities, libraries, museums, historical societies, and art galleries, who are interested in providing digital access to their collections. The conference seeks to support this community through a mix of speakers, contributed papers and posters, workshops, and engaging discussion. Audience Librarians, technologists, and other information professionals with responsibility for or an interest in digitization projects, metadata, and digital library systems. Sessions will range in scope and depth. Some sessions will be appropriate for those with no prior knowledge in the field, while others will be more technical in nature. Conference Topics Conference presentations are sought in all areas related to digital libraries, including the following: - Case studies - Collaborative projects - Digital content for teaching (K-12) - Digital content for teaching (higher education) - Digital images - Digital library systems and architecture - Digital projects -- archives and historical societies - Digital projects -- museums and art galleries - Digital projects -- public libraries - Digital projects -- special libraries - Digitizing art collections and other rare/fragile materials - Encoded Archival Description (EAD) - Getting started with digitization projects - Grant-funded projects - Institutional repositories - Metadata - Working with faculty - Working with students - Working with IT staff We encourage proposals targeted at all levels of experience (introductory, intermediate, and advanced) and a wide range of audiences (academic librarians, public librarians, special/corporate librarians, archivists, museum curators, digital library technologists, library administrators, library/information science graduate students). The program committee hopes to have several tracks to accommodate a wide range of topics, experience levels, and audiences. Presentation Formats Proposals are invited for a variety of formats: lecture-style presentations, panel discussions, and posters. Submitting a Proposal Email proposals to dig at bucknell.edu. Proposals must include the following information: Proposed session title One- to two-paragraph abstract Name(s) and contact information for all presenters Type of session being proposed (lecture-style presentation, panel discussion, or poster) For lecture-style presentations: level of experience (introductory, intermediate, or advanced) Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Notification to proposal authors is expected to occur by early May. Feel free to contact Bucknell University's Digital Initiatives Group [dig at bucknell.edu] if you have questions or proposal ideas you would like to discuss before submitting a proposal. Conference Location Bucknell University is located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The campus is in a beautiful rural setting adjacent to the Susquehanna River. Harrisburg and State College (home of Penn State University) are about an hour away; New York, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are approximately a three- to four-hour drive. -- Abby Clobridge Digital Initiatives Group Leader Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 aclobrid at bucknell.edu (570) 577-3913